GALLERY | $5-10 SUGGESTED DONATION | ALL AGES | Christina Erives’ work is rooted in the language of folk art—where storytelling, tradition, and daily life meet through the handmade. She is drawn to the quiet power of objects shaped by hand, carrying marks, symbols, and gestures that feel both personal and shared.
She understands kinfolk as more than family—it includes all those connected through making, sharing, and remembering. The people she comes from and those she finds along the way. Each piece becomes a vessel for connection, holding stories that are both intimate and collective.
Working primarily in clay, she explores the balance between function and narrative. Surfaces are carved, glazed, and layered with imagery that echoes folk motifs, reinterpreted through her own visual language.
At its core, her practice honors making as a form of remembering—an offering to the past, a reflection of the present, and a gesture toward the future—where art continues to connect us to our kin, our communities, and the enduring thread of shared imagination.
Christina Erives was born in Los Angeles, California. She received her BA and MA from California State University of Northridge and her MFA from Pennsylvania State University. She has worked as a Resident Artist at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena Montana, Belger Craneyard Studios in Kansas City Missouri, Arquetopia in Puebla Mexico, and Rasquache in Puebla Mexico. She has also worked as a Visiting Artist Instructor at New Mexico State University and the University of Montana. Christina Erives is an emerging artist in the field of Ceramics. In 2017 she received an Emerging Artist Award from NCECA the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts.
Ceramics as material has permanence , it is one of the ways we were able to learn about ancient cultures. There is so much beauty in these traditions and Christina Erives’ aim has been to make a mark of her time that will be preserved in the history of ceramic objects.