Janisse Gracia will give an in-person talk about the project she is working on on during her residency at Greenwich House Pottery.
Gracia is a Los Angeles-based artist who explores the emotional power we invest in our daily routines. By recreating the items central to those tasks, Gracia meditates on the way these objects become vessels for memory, comfort, and transformation. Through repetitive making processes—rolling coils, pinching patterns, paddling forms—she pays homage to the repeated daily processes that invest these objects with their emotional power.
Gracia earned her MFA and BA from California State University, Northridge. Recent exhibitions include Pio Pico (Los Angeles, CA; 2025), Plains Art Museum (Fargo, ND; 2023), and Applied Contemporary (Oakland, CA; 2020). She currently serves as Executive Director of Green & Bisque Clayhouse in Pasadena.
During her residency, Gracia is exploring how uprooting herself to temporarily live in New York City has changed her understanding of the way care, ritual, and adaptation can be embedded into objects. She will probe how unfamiliar surroundings impact her relationship with the items of her daily routines, and create a new body of handbuilt sculptures. Gracia will incorporate fabric into her finished ceramic work to create a dialog between softness and structure, mirroring the dichotomy wrapped up in this new experience.
The talk is free and open to the public with RSVP.
Pronouns: he/him September 22 – December 12, 2025 Amir Hariri is a New York City-based artist and engineer who deconstructs the world around him to create abstract artwork and interventions that respond to contemporary challenges such as the pandemic and
Monday, Feb 23: All Greenwich House buildings are closed except the Center for Healing. The Center for Resiliency and Wellness is open remotely.
