ceramic artist | photographer | author

Angela Smith Kirkman is a ceramic artist with over thirty years of experience. She enjoys wild harvesting clay in the mountains of New Mexico and specializes in wood firing as well as saggar, raku, and gas reduction firing.

Angela recently returned from a two-year journey around the world with her husband and three children. During her family’s Big Field Trip, she studied with 12th-generation ceramic artists in Japan, hiked the Inca Trail, rode a dragon boat up the Perfume River, caught the swine flu in Istanbul, motorcycled across Chang Mai, was chased out of the Great Mosque of Uqba in Tunisia, robbed at gunpoint in Bahia, lived on a vineyard in Portugal, rode camelback through the Sahara, snuck into a dilapidated communist headquarters in Bulgaria, taught at a tribal school in Rajasthan, and biked through floating markets in Thailand. Angela has published dozens of travel stories. Her ceramic art and photography are influenced by travel across five continents and by her beloved home in Santa Fe, New Mexico where she owns Paseo Pottery, Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery, and Tumbleroot Pottery Pub.