Nicole Seisler

Nicole Seisler creates dialogue and perspectives around ceramics that exist in the same conditions as the material: malleable, shifting, adaptable, and enduring; existing within, between, and beyond conventional definitions. She builds this pluralistic vision of ceramics as a conceptual field through her tripod practice of making, teaching, and curating.

Nicole has exhibited widely at museums including the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Craft Contemporary in Los Angeles, the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona CA, and the Kennedy Museum in Athens OH. Her book Recipes for Conceptual Clay (in the time of covid-19) was published in 2020, her essay Camera as Kiln was published in the journal art + reading in 2023, and in 2025 she had solo exhibitions at Das Schaufenster (Seattle), University of Arkansas (Little Rock), and HIDE & SEEK (Portland, OR).

Nicole has taught ceramics at over a dozen universities across the US in the last 15 years and is currently Assistant Professor and Head of Ceramics at Lewis & Clark College in Portland OR. Nicole is the Founder and Director of A-B Projects, a global hub for community, critical dialogue, and material experimentation that expands and redefines the ceramics field.

Specialty

Academic Credentials

MFA 2011, School of the Art Institute of Chicago / BFA 2004, School of the Museum of Fine Arts in affiliation with Tufts University

Teaching

ART 116- Ceramics I
ART 216- Ceramics II
ART 316 Ceramics III

ART 327- Special Topics