Artist: Morgan Levine

Morgan Levine, 
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ARTIST BIO

Morgan Levine is a ceramic artist creating functional stoneware
tableware using tinted slips. First drawn to pottery as a child, she
studied Industrial Design with an interest in tabletop, continuing her
ceramics practice throughout college. After working as a craft and
prop stylist, she established her studio practice in 2019.

Her work centers on the expressive potential of slip, capturing its
fluid movement as it flows and layers across each surface. Preserved
through firing, each piece becomes a record of a singular moment in
time. While intuitive in process, her approach is informed by the long
history of marbled surfaces across cultures.

Balancing precision with unpredictability, Levine’s work features
contemporary palettes, intricate patterns, and refined finishes,
resulting in pieces that are both functional and visually dynamic.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I create functional pottery using tinted stoneware slips. Beyond
utility, these pieces are a love letter to the material
itself—centering slip as both surface and structure, revealing
process, and celebrating its idiosyncratic behavior. I believe that
the act of making, with all its decisions and problem-solving, deepens
a maker’s vision and meaningfully shapes the world around them. After
years of experimentation and dialogue with historical and contemporary
ceramics, I launched my practice in 2019.

My work seeks to capture the spontaneous movement of viscous slip as
it flows, collides, and settles—over and under itself—while
maintaining a disciplined consistency of form and pattern. Each vessel
becomes a record of a singular moment, fixed through vitrification.
While immediate and intuitive, this approach is rooted in a long
global history of marbled surfaces across mediums.

Intricate motifs, a clear glaze, and a polished, thrown foot come
together to create tableware that is both durable and visually
absorbing. Contemporary in palette and pattern yet familiar in spirit,
the work balances precision with unpredictability. Each piece bears
the trace of my hand alongside the fleeting fluidity of the clay. The
result is a crisp delineation of color softened by undulating,
psychedelic movement. Grouped together, the vessels form a visual
lexicon of slip’s expressive range and a cumulative record of process.

RESUME

EXPERIENCE
Morgan Levine Ceramics, Brooklyn, NY — Founder
May 2019 - PRESENT

● After 30+ years in love with clay, and 5+ years developing a slipware process that captures
the spontaneity of slip’s fluidity along with my gesture as a maker in vibrant colors and
mesmerizing patterns, I launched Morgan Levine Ceramics.
● My process involves handbuilding, mold making, and throwing.

Pat Bates and Assoc., New York, NY — Craft Stylist November 2011 - May 2019
● Craft and holiday content
● Craft tool and supply packaging and project content
● Illustration execution
● Props
● Still and video shoots
● Client List ADWEEK, BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS, CARTIER, CONSUMER
REPORTS, ELLE UK, EVERY DAY WITH RACHAEL RAY, FAMILY CIRCLE, HGTV, JAMES
ALLEN, KATE SPADE, KOHLS, MARTHA STEWART, MONEY MAGAZINE, NEXT GREAT
BAKER, PANERA, PARENTS, PEPPERIDGE FARM, PREVENTION, REAL SIMPLE, TARGET,
THE TODAY SHOW, WILLIAMS SONOMA COOKS, CARTIER, TIFFANY, ZIPLOC

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, New York, NY — Style/Design/Editorial July 2007 -
September 2011
● Craft Product Design
● Stylist and content creator for product and editorial shoots
● Craft Stylist for Martha Stewart TV show

Jonathan Adler, New York, NY — Design Assistant October 2007 - May 2008
● Assisted lead designer in sculpting ceramic originals to be sent to factories for slip casting
● Studio maintenance

EDUCATION
Ceramic Workshops
● Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts, Maplecrest, NY
○ Colour in clay with Chris Campbell, July 2018
● Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass, CO
○ Digital Clay with Del Harrow, June 2015
● Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass, CO
○ Winter Concentration with Paul Mcmullen, January 2015
● Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
○ Testing Theories with Paul Sacaridiz, July 2012

Pratt Institute — bid, Industrial and Product Design
September 2000 - December 2004, Brooklyn, NY
First drawn to pottery in high school, I studied Industrial Design with an eye toward tabletop. I
continued my ceramics practice through college, and after working as a craft stylist, I now
produce stoneware tableware.

PRESS/SHOWS/AWARDS
● Asparagus Valley Pottery Trail, Shelburne Falls, MA April 2026
● Aspen Art Museum ArtCrush Design Room, June 2025
● Above Board Ceramics, Richmond, VA, March 2024
● Dwell Magazine, July 2023
● Pots, Pots, Pots, NYC, July 2023
● Summer is Served, Carlie Cummings Gallery, Gainesville, FL, July 2020
● Interior Design Magazine, Spring Market Tabloid 2020
● Table Magazine, spring 2020
● Domino Magazine, December 2019
● Garden & Gun, December 2019
● The Kitchn, December 2019
● Anderson Ranch Art Center workshop Scholarship 2015