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Bunny Teapot
By Beatrice Alder
Ceramic
8” x 4” x 4.75”
2025
Artist Statement: As a ceramicist who makes both functional and decorative wares, I love to challenge the boundaries between fine art and craft. Planned obsolescence and a market flooded with cheap consumer goods have not only damaged the environment, but distorted our relationship to our material culture. I find that incorporating rituality, narrative, and charm into functional objects is a way to remind people of the value and power of the things they use every day.
Artist Bio:
Beatrice Alder is a visual artist, writer, and teacher based in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Inspired by history and folk art, Beatrice uses ceramics, printmaking, textile arts, collage, and the written word to tell stories of queer ancestors, labor justice, and human relationships to nature.
“These whimsical handmade ceramic teapots, planters, and sculptures are all inspired by my curiosity and observations of the natural world. This mostly functional collection of objects is embellished with everything from rabbits and Devonian armored fish to folk and botanical motifs.”
-Beatrice Alder, New Bedford, MA.
Bunny Teapot
By Beatrice Alder
Ceramic
8” x 4” x 4.75”
2025
Artist Statement: As a ceramicist who makes both functional and decorative wares, I love to challenge the boundaries between fine art and craft. Planned obsolescence and a market flooded with cheap consumer goods have not only damaged the environment, but distorted our relationship to our material culture. I find that incorporating rituality, narrative, and charm into functional objects is a way to remind people of the value and power of the things they use every day.
Artist Bio:
Beatrice Alder is a visual artist, writer, and teacher based in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Inspired by history and folk art, Beatrice uses ceramics, printmaking, textile arts, collage, and the written word to tell stories of queer ancestors, labor justice, and human relationships to nature.
“These whimsical handmade ceramic teapots, planters, and sculptures are all inspired by my curiosity and observations of the natural world. This mostly functional collection of objects is embellished with everything from rabbits and Devonian armored fish to folk and botanical motifs.”
-Beatrice Alder, New Bedford, MA.