Meet the Artist

Laura Manardo is a ceramic artist based in Ferndale, Michigan. She took her first ceramics class in January 2024 at Still Life Ceramics Studio, where she quickly fell in love with clay as a tactile way to tell stories.

With an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Columbia College, Laura's work is rooted in narrative- though these days, her stories are shaped by hand rather than written on the page.

She finds inspiration in:

  • big, slobbery dogs

  • thick, woolly yarns

  • strawberry milk

  • heavy robes

  • audiobooks

  • the perfect shade of mint green