Mia Kunyo is a mother, a Buddhist, a wife, an artist, and a teacher of ceramics. She finds inspiration in patterns and surface designs found in natural landscapes, flora, and fauna. Coming from a family of women sculptors including her mother, two aunts, and a cousin, she first set foot in a ceramics studio at the age of 5. Much of her career was as a self-supporting fashion designer, often searching for something more functional and less materialistic. A prolific gardener, she also wanted the work to bring her closer to the earth...all leading to ceramics. Big, bright, bold colors and prints were the base for her clothing line, Bewakeful.etsy, yet in mud she tells a very different story. Meditative whites, calmness in the sky blues with a touch of ruckus among the scribble.

Aesthetic objects with utilitarian everyday purpose. Mia looks at every detail from its weight in your hands to the way it makes you feel: your favorite mug in the cold of winter, the lamp that awakens your senses as the day comes to an end, the drawer-pulls that renew the great old dresser you thrifted, and the pitcher with which you will quench your friends’ thirst. The little things that tag alongside our memories in the background can often bring us home.

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