Home

A Community Exhibition

Home inaugurates Pottery Northwest’s new gallery in South Lake Union and begins our year-long theme, Building Belonging, an exploration of how spaces of connection, care, and inclusion are created, sustained, and reimagined.

Home can be a structure, a place, a body, a memory, or a community. It may be inherited or chosen, carefully built or continually reconstructed. It can offer comfort, familiarity, and grounding, while also carrying histories of displacement, change, longing, or loss. Our understanding of home is shaped not only by the spaces we inhabit, but by the relationships, traditions, objects, and experiences that give those spaces meaning.

Bringing together work by artists from across our community, Home considers both the physical and emotional landscapes in which belonging takes form. Through functional pottery, sculpture, and mixed-media work centered in clay, artists reflect on domestic space, identity, culture, memory, connection, and transition. The works in this exhibition reveal home not as a fixed place or singular experience, but as something we continually make and remake, through the objects we keep, the rituals we practice, the people we gather around us, and the spaces we create for one another.

As Pottery Northwest enters a new home of its own, this exhibition asks what it means to belong somewhere, and what it takes to build a place where others may belong as well.

What does home mean to you?