“Double Brick Lattice Cylinder,” 2021, terracotta, refractory mortar, stoneware, 12 × 14 × 21 in. (each). Photo courtesy of the artist.
Colby Charpentier
Teaching Artist Cohort
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2026
Colby Charpentier (b.1991 Providence) is an artist working primarily in ceramics. His work addresses materiality and relationships between architecture and the vessel. He formulates, tests, and designs alternative ceramic materials and processes. The resulting works are vessels that showcase these technologies. Recent projects include soft-paste porcelain as an approximation of Western replication of Eastern porcelain, plaster-clay mixtures to capture the immediacy of wet plaster, and brick lattice to subvert the visual weight and expectations of brick and ceramic materials.
Colby received his MFA in Ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2021 and his BFA in Ceramics and Glass from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2013. He has completed residencies at Sonoma Ceramics in Sonoma, California; the Morean Center for Clay in St. Petersburg, Florida; Harvard Ceramics at Harvard University in Allston, Massachusetts; Goggleworks Center for the Arts in Reading, Pennsylvania; the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, California; the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana; and the Interdisciplinary Ceramic Research Center at the University of Kansas.
He is currently based in Kansas City, Missouri, and teaches at the Kansas City Art Institute.
Selected works
“Macro Inlay Cylinders,” 2020, stoneware, glaze, 24 × 16 × 16 in. (each). Photo courtesy of the artist.
“A Whole New Grid,” 2024, stoneware, glaze, 18 × 20 × 20 in. (each). Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Restitched Basket,” 2019, soft-paste porcelain, stoneware, glaze, wire, 9 × 13 × 13 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Falling Brick Vessels,” 2025, stoneware, glaze, brick, 57 in. tall. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Celadon Zoetrope,” 2025, stoneware, porcelain, slip, refractory mortar, 8 × 20 × 20 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Brick Lattice Cylinder,” 2023, terracotta, refractory mortar, stoneware, glaze, 17 × 22 × 22 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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