Caroline Staller is a ceramic sculptor and educator. She attended New Mexico State University in 2011 and graduated in 2015 with degrees in Fine Art and Biology with a Biochemistry minor.
She completed her MFA in Ceramics from the University of Missouri in 2021 where she studied under artists Bede Clarke and Joseph Pintz. Her small-scale tableaus and carvings of horses are peaceful and reflective with a focus on the beauty she sees in ‘simple’ objects both made by hand and found which is reminiscent of her childhood exploring the New Mexico desert on horse-back and finding unique objects aged by the harsh elements.
She has taught ceramic sculpture at Harvard Ceramics where she encouraged students to focus on a close conversation with clay through color, texture, and form. Caroline currently works at her home studio as well as the Pucker Gallery in Boston’s Back Bay which includes a collection of nearly 4,000 pots including the work of Shoji Hamada and Brother Thomas Bezanson.
You can watch her recorded talks alongside artists and other experts:
Everyday Beauty: Shoji Hamada, Shinsaku Hamada, and Tomoo Hamada WebinART 2023
The Beauty of Use: Work by Yoshinori Hagiwara WebinART 2023
Brother Thomas Bezanson: The Universe of True Beauty WebinART 2023
Randy Johnston: Maker of Memory WebinART 2023
You can read some of her writings on specific artists and collections: