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Ashley Lake ceramic art water inspired lake superior art

Functional and  Sculptural 
Pottery

~Made in Duluth, MN~
Ashley Lake ceramic luminaire sculpture ceramic art light sculpture clay artist Ashley Hise
Ashley Lake Ashley Hise collecting wild clay harvesting clay lake superior

Art, Water and Reciprocity
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What's Happening 2025/2026

1000 Vases
Paris, France

Sep. 4th-7th, 2025
Tidal Wave 
Mankato, MN

Spring 2026
Ashley Lake rock mug ceramic thrown and altered

Land Acknowledgment:

I am a descendant of both European settlers and Native ancestry in Wisconsin’s Lake Superior region. Most of our indigenous family culture has been lost, in part due to the forced assimilation that affected my great, great grandmother at the Hayward Indian School. I honor and acknowledge the contemporary and ancestral lands of the native communities in this region called home by the Anishinaabeg/Ojibwe/Chippewa and, as recognized by UMD’s land acknowledgement “before them the Dakota and Northern Cheyenne people, and other Native peoples from time immemorial.”

  Selkie Ceramics by Ashley Lake 

I am a potter, sculptor and educator on the North Shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota. A through line of inspiration for  my work has been found through the growth patterns in bones and shells and how those patterns relate to the fluidity of water. I collect clay and find ideas for forms along the shoreline of our great Gichigami!

Ashley Hise ceramics, pottery, custom, handmade tiles, Duluth Minnesota ceramics, Ashley Lake

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