THE POTTER
About Lee Baker
I am a fat, queer, butch, Jewish artist living and working on Abenaki land in so-called Vermont.
I spent most of my life in Michigan and Chicago, and consider myself deeply midwestern. I am roughly 50% water by weight, and most of that water came from the Great Lakes.
I’m lucky to have found a place that feels like home out here in the Green Mountains, and to be surrounded by vibrant queer community, and beautiful anti-zionist and diasporist Jewish community.
When I’m not making pottery, I am often found cooking or baking for my friends and loved ones, reading, co-organizing the VT Queer Craft Fairs, gardening, orchestrating or attending Jewish events, knitting, and giving haircuts to my friends.
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COMFORT + BEAUTY
About Lee’s Pottery
I make wheel-thrown and hand-built, high-fire, functional, stoneware pottery.
My work is made from the body of the earth, and takes inspiration from queerness, fat bodies, queer domesticities, and the earth that my clay and glazes come from.
It is made to bring comfort and beauty to your everyday life and mine.
My work is sturdy and meant to be used and treasured for many years. I work in rich stoneware clays, bright jewel and earth toned glazes, and fluid shapes meant to feel good in the hand.
I work out of a shared studio space in Waterbury where I rent space for myself to have a small personal studio. I am an entirely one-person show, besides the benefits of sharing studio space — shared clay ordering, shared glazes, shared firings, shared equipment, etc.
I hand make all of my products myself.
