About

Kala Stein (b.1979) is an artist, designer, and art educator working at the intersection of craft, design, and sustainability. Her work explores notions of beauty and loss through efficient systems of making, intentional materials, and innovative approaches to making. She received her MFA in Ceramics from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, where she taught for five years following and is the former Director of Ceramics and Art at the Sonoma Community Center/ Sonoma Ceramics.

Her work is shown internationally at numerous venues and she has received several awards including a National Endowment for the Arts Grant for collaborative research in ceramics, Architectural Terracotta Co-Lab. Stein lives and works in Sonoma, CA, teaching and showing her work throughout the USA and internationally.

Her studio is located at 148 E. Napa Street in Sonoma and is open by appointment. Kala welcomes inquiries for both corporate commissions and learning/teaching opportunities.

Curriculum vitae

Land Acknowledgment: I respectively acknowledge that I live and work on the unceded lands of the Southern Pomo people, here in Sonoma Valley. I am humbled by the beauty and abundance of these lands and acknowledge the tragic affects of colonialism and the implications on tribal communities to this present day. I am committed to learning from and supporting native people’s resiliency and traditional relationship to the natural world.