As an educator constantly looking to help my students expand the conversation on art, my work aims to explore and discuss expectations around wheel-thrown ceramic work. Building each form by hand, I choose to explore stereotypes in pottery, taking work normally done through the use of a potter’s wheel and hand-building the bowls, plates, teapots, and spoons to discuss how these forms are commonly seen in the same way. In turn, I instead place each item into a sculptural work, asking for the viewer to consider their own experience and relationship with pottery, as I morph and manipulate the forms, utilizing alternative color application methods to highlight my break from what’s typical.