Taylor Shantz
Instagram: @taylor_is_at_home
Website: https://taylorshantzstudio.com
Bio: Taylor Shantz is a ceramicist, designer, and poet from northern California. Her background in sustainability and industrial design informs how she thinks about interaction, impact, and the importance of craft.
Her practice lies at the intersection of fluidity and connection across mediums, disciplines, and communities. She creates work that speaks to the natural relationships exclusive to its region—its ecology, folklore, and materials. She aims to surface both what is alive and what is lost. Using foraged materials like wild plants and clay to weave, entangle, and document ephemeral moments of the landscape.
She engages with place not only as a material resource but as a collaborator—listening to what it offers and reveals. Rooted in reciprocity, participation, and transformation. By weaving together practices of social engagement, alternative craft, and play. She seeks to create spaces of mutual recognition—where one can reinhabit senses, reimagine relationships to land, and connect through creation.
She works for an independent furniture design/ art collective in Oakland and resides in San Francisco.
