"...with the Pair of Cups she doesn't hide the cut. She's left it there for you to see, but she's fit it together so beautifully that the cut is there, but it's solid, and it's not thickened where the cut comes together, even though to close that seam she's overlapped the clay." (full article)

"The social history of objects is also present in Martina Lantin's functional ceramics. Inspired by early English porcelains and Renaissance majolica, she explores the ability of objects to construct and contain a story. Her plate installations reference notions of accumulation and variability." (full article)

"I’m interested in the forms championed by industry and the fashion that they began to impart. Collectors of imported ceramics from China displayed these pots as an indication of their status and wealth. These two contexts — industry and ceramics as a display of status — guide my ideas." (full article)

"I see ceramics, and all art-making, as integral to a liberal arts curriculum. Ceramics combines chemistry, physics and artistic expression, for example. It takes care and attention to craft, and the determination to develop skill is akin to learning the art of writing and critical thinking." (full article)