<![CDATA[WORKING PROCESS]]>https://www.workingprocess.xyzhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Wm_F!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2b0ca706-2f7b-431e-a489-4b111a91f4c9_1280x1280.pngWORKING PROCESShttps://www.workingprocess.xyzSubstackSat, 09 May 2026 11:15:40 GMT<![CDATA[Kristen Stain's WORKING PROCESS]]>https://www.workingprocess.xyz/p/kristen-stains-working-processhttps://www.workingprocess.xyz/p/kristen-stains-working-processThu, 27 Mar 2025 14:26:41 GMTIn this episode, Gabrielle speaks with Kristen Stain about coil-building, community offerings, ancestral knowing and veneration, reverence for the earth, duality, and their WORKING PROCESS.

Kristen Stain is a multidisciplinary artist and designer whose work spans ceramics, illustration, painting, and creative direction.

Operating under the name ketchupstain, Kristen's practice is both a production studio and community project. Through ketchupstain, Kristen explores cultural history and envisions future possibilities, creating art, objects, and experiences.

Visit Kristen’s website and Instagram to learn more about their work.

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About the project:

WORKING PROCESS is an offering of conversations with Black women working with and around clay about their work and process by writer & ceramicist, Gabrielle Ione Hickmon. Subscribe to WORKING PROCESS on Substack so you never miss an episode and get transcripts sent directly to your email. Watch conversations on YouTube. Follow WORKING PROCESS on Instagram. Follow Gabrielle on Instagram, TikTok, or Arena, and keep up with her other projects via her website and Substack.

Credits & Other Details:

WORKING PROCESS is hosted by Gabrielle Ione Hickmon, produced by Dilemma, and transcribed by Kristin Corry.

]]><![CDATA[Patrice Renee Washington's WORKING PROCESS]]>https://www.workingprocess.xyz/p/patrice-renee-washington-ceramics-working-processhttps://www.workingprocess.xyz/p/patrice-renee-washington-ceramics-working-processThu, 27 Feb 2025 15:01:42 GMTIn this episode, Gabrielle speaks with Patrice Renee Washington about cultural symbols & identity, research, the language of objects, artifacts, history, reclamation, and her WORKING PROCESS.
Kunzite Coiffure 2021, Patrice Renee Washington, Glazed stoneware, luster, concrete, 31.5” x 10.5” x 10.5”

Visit Patrice’s website to learn more about her work. You can learn more about her solo exhibition Tendril, which was up at the ICA at VCU from Feb 16, 2024 – Jul 14, 2024 here.

WORKING PROCESS is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support this offering, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

About the project:

WORKING PROCESS is an offering of conversations with Black women working with and around clay about their work and process by writer & ceramicist, Gabrielle Ione Hickmon. Subscribe to WORKING PROCESS on Substack so you never miss an episode and get transcripts sent directly to your email. Watch conversations on YouTube. Follow WORKING PROCESS on Instagram. Follow Gabrielle on Instagram, TikTok, or Arena, and keep up with her other projects via her website and Substack.

Credits & Other Details:

WORKING PROCESS is hosted by Gabrielle Ione Hickmon, produced by Dilemma, and transcribed by Kristin Corry.

]]><![CDATA[Nala C. Turner's WORKING PROCESS]]>https://www.workingprocess.xyz/p/nala-c-turner-ceramics-working-processhttps://www.workingprocess.xyz/p/nala-c-turner-ceramics-working-processThu, 30 Jan 2025 15:03:43 GMTIn this episode, Gabrielle speaks with Nala C. Turner about her research into the Black potters and sculptors of the Harlem Renaissance, clay and sculpture as a vehicle for exploring history and intervening in public space, art therapy, and her WORKING PROCESS.

Nala C. Turner is a Brooklyn-based ceramics artist, culture worker, and creative art therapist (MPS, LCAT, ATR-BC), working primarily with themes related to race-issues, cultural identity, femininity, social stereotype, and popular culture perspectives. She has been working with clay for 15 years as a visual artist and educator. Follow Nala on Instagram or visit her website to learn more about her work.

WORKING PROCESS is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support this offering, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.


About the project:

WORKING PROCESS is an offering of conversations with Black women working with and around clay about their work and process by writer & ceramicist, Gabrielle Ione Hickmon. Subscribe to WORKING PROCESS on Substack so you never miss an episode and get transcripts sent directly to your email. Watch conversations on YouTube. Follow WORKING PROCESS on Instagram. Follow Gabrielle on Instagram, TikTok, or Arena, and keep up with her other projects via her website and Substack.

Credits & Other Details:

WORKING PROCESS is hosted by Gabrielle Ione Hickmon, produced by Dilemma, and transcribed by Kristin Corry.

]]><![CDATA[We are so back!]]>https://www.workingprocess.xyz/p/we-are-so-backhttps://www.workingprocess.xyz/p/we-are-so-backThu, 23 Jan 2025 15:02:59 GMT

Hi everyone,

Long time no talk. I never intended to be away from this space for just over a year, but life was happening in the best of ways. I was an artist-in-residence in Cape Town, ZA at the top of 2024. I got into and started graduate school in 2024. I taught two summer sessions in 2024. I was an artist-in-residence and in a group show in Richmond, VA in 2024. Basically, I stepped into the life I always dreamed of for myself in ways that allow me to live in the world of my creative practice. I’m grateful. Of course much is still changing, shifting, and growing, but I now have the capacity to engage here again.

I’m looking forward to bringing WORKING PROCESS into your inbox and ears this year. The current plan is one episode a month as I am still in a PhD program after all!

Episodes will drop the last Thursday of the month, except for in April and October because those are my personal sabbatical months where I give myself a little bit more room.

Our first few episodes back are all ready and queued up to go. I can’t wait for you to hear them! Thanks for your patience and thanks for listening. This space grew in subscribers while I was away and I really appreciate the support.

See you next Thursday,
Gabrielle

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]]><![CDATA[Bisila Noha's WORKING PROCESS. ]]>https://www.workingprocess.xyz/p/bisila-noha-ceramics-working-processhttps://www.workingprocess.xyz/p/bisila-noha-ceramics-working-processFri, 17 Nov 2023 11:00:00 GMTIn this episode, Gabrielle speaks with Bisila Noha about heritage, combining throwing & hand building, translation, movement, going inward, and her WORKING PROCESS.

Bisila Noha is a Spanish-Equatoguinean London-based ceramic artist, researcher, and writer. With her work, Bisila aims to challenge Western views on art and craft; to question what we understand as productive and worthy in capitalist societies; and to reflect upon the idea of home and oneness pulling from personal experiences in different pottery communities. Follow Bisila on Instagram, or visit her website to learn more about her work.

About the project:

WORKING PROCESS is an offering of conversations with Black women working with and around clay about their work and process by writer & ceramicist, Gabrielle Ione Hickmon. Subscribe to WORKING PROCESS on Substack so you never miss an episode and get transcripts sent directly to your email. Watch conversations on YouTube. Follow WORKING PROCESS on Instagram. Follow Gabrielle on Instagram, TikTok, or Arena, and keep up with her other projects via her website and Substack.

Credits & Other Details:

WORKING PROCESS is hosted by Gabrielle Ione Hickmon, produced by Dilemma, and transcribed by Kristin Corry.

This conversation was recorded in June 2023, so the show Bisila mentions at the end of the episode is no longer up.

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