About
Ariel Zimman is a ceramics artist who fell in love with clay at her very first pottery lesson in the 3rd grade. Since then, she has earned her BFA from the School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University in 2009. Followed by moving to Portland, Oregon where she worked at the Portland Art Museum, a small but very profitable Sculpy ornament business, Mudshark Studios - a high volume slip casting production business, where she worked as a studio production ceramicist while starting her first ceramics-based home decor business in 2013.
In 2015, Ariel started her second business, Stonedware Company, which specialized in handcrafted porcelain smoking wares and distributed wholesale and retail designs internationally. Ariel has participated in over 50 trade shows/fairs/markets and her work has been featured in Rolling Stone, Dwell, Playboy, Vice Media, Vogue, Forbes, and more. Willamette Week selected Ariel as one of Portland’s top 15 artists/designers of 2019.
Ariel continues to seek new ways to work with clay and the community, and wants to help those interested in turning their passion into a career by offering small business consulting and mentorship to artists and makers.
Ariel currently resides on the Olympic Peninsula in Port Angeles, Washington and works out of her home studio in between traveling as much as possible.