Ryana Lawson is a ceramic artist who handbuilds objects adorned with imagery from the natural world and personal mythology. She utilizes clay to preserve memories of her dwindling family tree, while exploring ideas surrounding beauty and value within the domestic space. Each piece is pinched and adorned with flora and fauna using sculptural and illustrative elements to weave delicate musings on life and death, grief and solitude.

Originally from Rochester, NY, Ryana currently resides in Seattle, WA. She recently completed an Artist in Residence at Pottery Northwest from 2023-2019. Ryana received her MFA from Pennsylvania State University in 2019. In 2017, she was an Artist in Residence at Flower City Arts back in Rochester, and received a post-baccalaureate education from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2016. She graduated with a BFA from The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2015.  She has exhibited her work nationally.