Medium: Ceramics

Tammi Vilchis (Thea) is a Mexican ceramic artist and industrial designer. Although she began her professional ceramic training in 2014 at the Fine Arts National Institute (INBA) in Mexico City, it was a few years earlier, at “El Alfar” (Otumba, Mexico), where she began documenting and experimenting with clay and alternative firings with mentor and artist Don Alfonso Lopez. She has received diplomas in Sculpture (Academia de San Carlos), Innovation and Design Thinking (CEDIM), and Women and Gender Studies (UNWoman), among others. These teachings have a clear and strong influence on her approach to art. In 2020 she moved to Maple Ridge where, in addition to maintaining a tiny home studio, she teaches ceramic classes to people of all ages at The ACT. Thea is part of Burnaby’s Potters Guild and teaches at Bonsor Recreation Complex.

Studio address: 23675 132 Ave., Maple Ridge. Studio #18 (with Megan Tarris, Neidin Prout, Dana Bates)

Phone: (604) 367-4585

Email: tammivilchis@gmail.com

Instagram: thea_ceramista