Pamela Wilson is a visual artist, working primarily in clay, fiber and craft-based performance/community-building. She learned to make pots and weave as a child and has maintained a studio practice that includes making, teaching, assisting elder artists and developing community arts projects for over 20 years. Grounded in modernist/post minimalist aesthetics and functional design, she utilizes labor-intensive materials and making methods that include the local growing, spinning and dying of fiber and colorants, mixing custom slips and dyes, kiln-building, large-scale communal wood firing and experimental atmospheric high and low-fire surface design. The materials themselves are elemental and less predictable than commercially purchased materials or processes—clays, plants, fiber, animal hair, oxides, smoke, melted ash. The surfaces available through these materials are not easily replicable through industrial or commercial means.