Collection: Kyle Jordan

Kyle Jordan is a queer Oregon based artist who recently relocated from Florida. They have worked in community studios as a studio technician for the past six years. Their experience teaching and fostering studio members’ ceramic journeys is the catalyst of their own practice.

Kyle’s personal work is imbued with their identity as a queer person raised religiously in the south, with themes surrounding ritual, kink, and sexuality. Finding a way to practice ritual and devotion through creation divorced from the white christian nationalist framework in which they were raised fuels that process. 

For the past couple years Kyle has been making work predominately to facilitate trades with other artists. They believe fostering a community minded approach to skill sharing and bartering is important and that it is vital to creating connection between like minded artists, who traditionally might not be able to afford the work that they make and to decenter capitalistic barriers surrounding craft and fine art.