“Los Seis de Boulder,” 2019, concrete, granite, grout, ceramic tile, 81 x 80 x 42 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Teaching Artist Cohort
2025
Jasmine Baetz has made things out of clay from a young age, and it remains her primary tool for making sense of the world. The materiality and recyclability of clay makes it well suited for her methods of building: addition, experimentation, and revision. She uses fired and unfired clay and various other materials in installation and sculpture, in ritual or performance, and in community-created public art projects. Using her place in a materially-based craft discipline and community, she seeks to illuminate the systemic problems within it that create and perpetuate colonial, racist, and misogynistic assumptions, discourses, actions, and objects. Defining her work, practice, and teaching against these tendencies, she uses clay to examine history, belief, and identity.
Jasmine has a BA in Religious Studies from the University of Toronto, a diploma in Fine Arts from Langara College in Vancouver, a BFA in 3D Fine Arts from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and an MFA in Ceramics from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has taught at Coker University, Scripps College, Claremont Graduate University, and Chaffey College. In 2024, she curated the 79th Scripps Ceramic Annual titled The idea of feeling brown. She is co-editing Ceramic Snap: Exposing Sexism and Misogyny in Ceramics with em irvin.
Selected works
“Los Seis de Boulder,” 2019, concrete, granite, grout, ceramic tile, 81 x 80 x 42 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Heriberto,” 2019, discs (excavated soil and dregs from the sink), Jaakola family Samsonite table (5973), tiles from J’s mold (excavated soil and dregs from the sink), 60 x 32 x 32 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“[T]heorizer in the midst,” 2022 and ongoing, candle wax, waste material, dimensions variable. Photo credit: em irvin.
“Surface finds,” 2023, underfired clay, waste glaze, buffet trays, 9 x 96 x 32 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Blood in the fire,” 2024, fired clay, blood, dimensions variable (each flame 12 x 6 x 6 in. or smaller). Photo credit: em irvin
“Sugar in the milk,” 2023, fired clay, sand, oxide, smudge pots, bricks, 54 x 28 x 2 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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