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Kiara Taylor

Teacher & tech

she/her
Kiara sitting on a sunlit balcony in a striped dress, one hand on a large white vase

Fun facts

Favorite thing to make out of clay
Large curvy pots and bottles
What’s inspiring you lately
Construction site machinery, atmospheric firing, owls
Favorite food spot
Been loving the burger at Le Gamin
Favorite emoji
🦦
Simple pleasure
Doing any task by candlelight

Kiara is a Brooklyn ceramics instructor and technician with more than nine years in clay.

Kiara studied human development and fine art at Cornell, and mixes wheel throwing and hand building to make fluid, functional vessels.

One of her favorite things about teaching is when students begin to form a distinct style: weeks into a course, a recurring shape or feature shows up across what someone has made, and the class can see it as a quality of their own work.

Work

  • Seen from above, a celadon double-gourd vessel with two openings, splashed with copper red, on snow
  • Seen from above, a round speckled cream bottle with a small neck, beside a hand for scale
  • Two small gray-green cups sitting in a joined double saucer, on a deck rail over a lawn
  • A small pale green bottle vase with a round base and a ridged neck, on a paint-spattered cloth
  • A sculpture in dark speckled clay: two rounded upright forms joined by a bridge, an opening between them, on grass

Kiara teaches wheel throwing.

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