{"product_id":"naomi-choi-kantharos","title":"Naomi Choi, Kantharos","description":"\u003cp\u003eKantharos 2026, 2026, Hard-altered stoneware, glaze cone 10 high fire reduction, 4\" x 5\" x 6\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy name is Naomi Choi and I’m a ceramic artist working in Houston, TX.  Since growing up in NYC, spending my 20's-30's in the SF Bay Area, and landing in Houston by way of my former career as a university professor of political philosophy, teaching yoga and working with clay is where I have found my ease and personal alignment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy work uses clay as my medium to explore the question of my existence and our need, collectively, to cohabitate in society as interpretive beings.  I use glaze and surface decoration techniques to translate my life experiences into the vessels I create.  My creations are profoundly shaped by the multiple landscapes that I have called “home,” and the disparate worlds that I have learned to navigate, not only as an immigrant to the US but also as a transplant assimilating to the Deep South when I lived in Prattville and Birmingham AL while I was a professor at the University of Alabama (2010-2015) and since relocating to Houston in 2015, which lies at the strange nexus of the West, the MidWest, and the South.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e@asana.ceramics\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Naomi Choi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50641186521285,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0514\/3301\/3445\/files\/Choi_NaomiKantharos20263-NaomiChoi.jpg?v=1791405777","url":"https:\/\/shop.ogdenmuseum.org\/products\/naomi-choi-kantharos","provider":"Ogden Museum Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}