BIO

Arista is a painter and ceramicist from Virginia, United States. She received her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Ceramics from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2023. She has taught classes and workshops at various community studios including Baltimore Clayworks, as well as a month-long ceramic intensive at the Fish Factory Creative Centre Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland, and assisted at the Arrowmont School of Craft in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. She has completed residencies at the Fish Factory Creative Centre and the Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts. Arista has exhibited work in numerous group shows including The Clay Studio, Mudflat Studio, and Sawtooth Center among others, and solo shows in Gateway Gallery and Middendorf Gallery. She has travelled along the East Coast of America selling her work at fine art fairs, and her work is in private collections around the world.


Arista’s love for art began in traditional landscape painting. Forever fond of working plein-air, Arista works quickly to capture a moment and learn through multiplicity. This style of working is true for both her paintings and ceramics.