Bio

Any was born in Curitiba, Brazil. There, she became an architect and urban planner. 

She spent a decade in New York, where she studied ceramics, metalsmithing and documentary photography, and worked at Etsy, Inc. in communications, policy, seller education and community. She went on to become Etsy's first Senior Maker Specialist, researching the creation and production processes used by designers and makers to scale their independent businesses. 

While focusing mainly on clay and metal, she has also studied an array of traditional Crafts, from glass and fiber to kintsukoroi and fileteado porteño. This body of knowledge colors her path as an artist and her studio practice.

As of 2017, Any works full-time with clay, with a focus on atmospheric firings. She lives in Seattle.

Artist Statement

My vessels are evocative of female forms—shoulders and arms, bellies and butts, heads and hair. In forming them, I inquire into a woman's existence as the daughter of another woman, sometimes resembling each other in shape, movement, or texture, but never identical. They stand individually but are conceived in relation to another—a mother, a tribe—considering the dynamics of being known and invited or rejected and estranged; protected or exposed; belligerent or soothed. They are fired in wood kilns, often more than once, and adorned as they're being fired, through deliberately placed wads, shells, and ash deposits.

Résumé

Education

∙ 1995-2000 - Architecture and Urban Planning
∙ 2008-2010 - Metalsmithing
∙ 2012 - Documentary photography
∙ 2017-present - Ceramics
∙ 2022 & 2023 - Clay Cohorts - Mentored by Simon Levin
∙ 2024 - Clay Cohorts - Mentored by Lisa Orr

Work

∙ 2023 - Ceramic Artist in Retreat - Mendocino Arts Center - Mendocino, CA
∙ 2018-2019 - North Seattle College CE - Small-business Instructor - Seattle, WA
∙ 2014-2017 - Etsy, Inc. - Senior Maker Specialist - Brooklyn, NY
∙ 2010-2014 - Etsy, Inc. - Manager, Community - Brooklyn, NY
∙ 2000-2008 - Architect - Curitiba, Brazil

Selected Exhibitions

∙ 2022 - Introductions at Rain City Clay - Seattle, WA
∙ 2021 - Rat City Studios Past & Present at Good Earth Pottery - Bellingham, WA
∙ 2018 - The Teapot Show at Good Earth Pottery - Bellingham, WA
∙ 2018 - Bountiful - Elensburg, WA
∙ 2018 - The 6th Annual Cup Show at Jansen Art Center - Lynden, WA

Lectures and Interviews

∙ 2019 - NCECA (US) - “Etsy & Clay: An Insider's Perspective” - Video
∙ 2019 - CONTAF (Brazil) - “A Cerâmica Online: Como divulgar e vender suas criações na internet”
∙ 2018 - The Potter's Cast - “Etsy From an Insider’s Perspective” - Episode 392
∙ 2018 - Washington Clay Arts Association - “Selling Online: How to Find the Right Platform For Your Business On the Web”

Published Articles

∙ 2020 - Ceramics Ireland - “Ling Chun - What Belongs with Clay” - Issue 44

Community

∙ Board of Directors of the Washington Clay Arts Association (2017-2023)
∙ Creator of Flash & Ash - Directory of Wood Kilns For Potters and Ceramic Artists