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Pocket Full of Stars
By Elaine Alder
Ceramic
.75” x .75” x .5”
2025
Each star sold separately.
Artist Statement: I make small, whimsical sculptures and elegant functional ware with heart. A lot of my ceramic work is about cross taxonomic kinship, queerness, ancestral connection, abundance, and Earth and other celestial bodies.
Artist Bio: Elaine Alder is a queer sculptor, ceramicist, fiber artist, printmaker, singer-songwriter, and painter. They grew up spending a lot of time on their grandparents farm in Georgia, where their grandmother taught them to sew and paint. In college they studied anthropology, and for a while after they were a youth outdoor educator, trail worker, sheep dairy worker, youth counselor, and wildland fire fighter before they decided to switch gears and pursue art full-time in 2020.
Their art education has been self directed, using books and the internet, but they've found a lot of mentors along the way, too. Mostly, they've learned everything they know about ceramics through the internet and trial and error. Elaine continues to connect to the land and ecological community through regenerative gardening, swimming, kayaking, birding, and using natural and reclaimed materials in their art practice. Their work can be found at Gallery X, where they are a member, or at the Drawing Room. Their life-sized weaving of North Atlantic right whales can be found in Captain Paul Cuffe Park in downtown New Bedford until September 2027.
“My work is whimsical, handmade, about ancestral and cross taxonomic relationships, and empathy, all of which fit with the themes of Salad Days.”
-Elaine Alder, New Bedford, MA.
Pocket Full of Stars
By Elaine Alder
Ceramic
.75” x .75” x .5”
2025
Each star sold separately.
Artist Statement: I make small, whimsical sculptures and elegant functional ware with heart. A lot of my ceramic work is about cross taxonomic kinship, queerness, ancestral connection, abundance, and Earth and other celestial bodies.
Artist Bio: Elaine Alder is a queer sculptor, ceramicist, fiber artist, printmaker, singer-songwriter, and painter. They grew up spending a lot of time on their grandparents farm in Georgia, where their grandmother taught them to sew and paint. In college they studied anthropology, and for a while after they were a youth outdoor educator, trail worker, sheep dairy worker, youth counselor, and wildland fire fighter before they decided to switch gears and pursue art full-time in 2020.
Their art education has been self directed, using books and the internet, but they've found a lot of mentors along the way, too. Mostly, they've learned everything they know about ceramics through the internet and trial and error. Elaine continues to connect to the land and ecological community through regenerative gardening, swimming, kayaking, birding, and using natural and reclaimed materials in their art practice. Their work can be found at Gallery X, where they are a member, or at the Drawing Room. Their life-sized weaving of North Atlantic right whales can be found in Captain Paul Cuffe Park in downtown New Bedford until September 2027.
“My work is whimsical, handmade, about ancestral and cross taxonomic relationships, and empathy, all of which fit with the themes of Salad Days.”
-Elaine Alder, New Bedford, MA.