About

Kala Stein is an artist, designer, and educator who makes large-scale ceramic art installations and collectible design. Stein works at the intersection of craft, design, and sustainability, exploring notions of beauty and loss in the natural world. International teaching and travel inspires her work which is increasingly focused on environmental shifts and atmospheric mapping. Stein’s work speaks to her spiritual reverence for the natural world as she expands the boundaries of ceramic art through her processes and systems of making.

Based in Sonoma, California Stein (b.1979) operates her ceramic design business, Kala Stein Studio, specializing in bespoke ceramics from public art to tableware. She received a National Endowment for the Arts Grant with her Co-Lab group; and taught at Alfred University, Anderson Ranch Center for the Art, La Meridiana, Italy, Sonoma Ceramics, and Diablo Valley College. Stein received her MFA in Ceramics from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and her BFA from the State University of New York at New Paltz. She is one of the newest members of the International Academy of Ceramics.

Her studio is located at 148 E. Napa Street, Sonoma, California and is open by appointment. Kala welcomes inquiries for both corporate commissions and teaching opportunities.

Curriculum vitae

Land Acknowledgment: I respectively acknowledge that I live and work on the unceded lands of the Southern Pomo people, here in Sonoma Valley. I am humbled by the beauty and abundance of these lands and acknowledge the tragic affects of colonialism and the implications on tribal communities to this present day. I am committed to learning from and supporting native people’s resiliency and traditional relationship to the natural world.