25 Sagamore Road Handbuilding

Sophie Lever

Sophie Lever is a ceramic artist who creates both functional and sculptural work. Growing up, she moved around a lot, and spent time in many different states on the east coast and midwest. This (along with other factors) created a desire for order and structure in the work that she makes. Fascinated with pattern, geometry, and organization, both her functional and sculptural work contain these elements, whether that be through surface decoration or form.

While her functional work is wheel-thrown, most of her sculptural work is built with hard slabs. She is interested in paradoxes and contradictions in her sense of self and how these ideas can visually play out in a single work. Sophie is currently an artist in residence at Access Arts in Columbia, MO where she teaches adult and youth classes and works to maintain a functioning studio. Prior to Access Arts, she was a resident artist at Brockway Center for Arts and Technology in Brockway, PA. Over the past two years, her work has been exhibited in juried shows across the country, including 64Arts, Atlanta Print Biennial, and In Hand II. She received her BA in Studio Arts from the University of Rochester in 2023. For two summers, she was an apprentice at Bella Joy Pottery in Plainwell, MI.

https://www.sophie-lever.com/