Ella Scudder-Davis

Ella has been practicing ceramics for eleven years and she loves clay more than most things. 

Her practice focuses on hand-building and, in particular, figure sculpting. Her current questions of clay center on the relationship between clay body and human body – how they converse together, impact each other, change each other – and how such bodies move in space: how they rest, how they fold/shape/mold themselves with/around/in response to other bodies and to the natural world.

Ella completed her BA in History and Studio Art at Pomona College in Claremont, CA (2021) and is working towards her MA in Divinity at the University of Chicago in Chicago, IL (2024). She was born and raised in Seattle, WA, and is beyond excited to be back living and working in the Pacific Northwest! Other fun facts about Ella: she loves playing ultimate frisbee, she only drinks Seattle’s Best Coffee, and she is a Brandi Carlile superfan.

Bio

Ella is a big believer that ceramics studios are places where people of all different backgrounds, life experiences, and intersecting identities come to learn, play, grow, and unfold. We often enter these spaces in our most artistic, emotional, and vulnerable bodies. For Ella, these places necessitate kindness, openness, encouragement, and community trust. As a teacher, she loves helping students along their journeys of (re)connecting with their bodies and their sense of play: gaining confidence in their hands, strengthening their ability to work through challenges, and rejoicing in the silly, dirty, exuberance of playing with clay!

Ella's Classes