EMMA JO WYCH

Emma Jo is based out of Santa Fe, NM and started her work with ceramics during college in Flagstaff, AZ. After taking a class on a whim, she quickly fell in love with clay because it made her feel like she could make anything she could possibly dream of. She had an amazing professor who inspired her and made her feel like she would have a career in ceramics, even though she was already two years into a science degree. After taking a gap semester (during which she took another ceramics class at a local community college), she decided to continue on with her degree in science and, as a compromise, take every single ceramics class she could possibly squeeze in. After graduating, Ej quickly found a clay community in Los Alamos and got involved in teaching, glaze making, and firing her own work for the first time. She is now a studio manager at Paseo Pottery and enjoys teaching and being involved in all aspects of the clay process. Ej hopes to have her own small studio one day where she can teach the thing she loves most.