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Gemma Sanchez Urias

Kids instructor

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Gemma in a headband and plaid top in a studio, holding out a small unfired clay figure of a woman with long hair

Fun facts

Favorite thing to make out of clay
Vases
What’s inspiring you lately
Pre-Columbian ceramics, inspired by the Tlalchichi dog (“Colima dogs”)
Favorite food spot
Oh Taisho on St. Marks
Favorite emoji
🌟
Simple pleasure
New paint brushes

Gemma Sanchez (b. 2003) is a Mexican-American artist and teacher, based in NYC since 2021.

Her work is made up of surrealist oil paintings and ceramic figures, its subject life in the Americas, past and present, with an emphasis on spiritual and religious iconography. She loves working with children and finds that ceramics lets everyone be a child at heart!

Work

  • A small figure glossy with blue, brown and red glazes, a face with curled horns lying on a round pedestal
    Capricorn in Mars
  • An unglazed terracotta figure hugging their knees in a little tub, beside a tall curling form
    Showers, not glazed
  • A glazed bust of a woman with long black hair and a flowered dress, a small cat sitting on her head
    Angel and Her Cat, 2026
  • The same figure from the side: her long black hair, red shoes and the cat’s tail
    Angel and Her Cat, 2026

Gemma teaches kids classes.

Questions for Gemma? Write to info@yarostudios.com.