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Bio

I am a ceramicist and fiber artist in Detroit, Michigan guided by sensation and surprise-seeking. My work often takes the form of elaborately pinched vessels, candelabras, ritual pedestals and wall pieces combining ceramic, knitted and woven textiles and found objects.

Existing between sculpture, functional design and devotional artifact, these works explore the tactile possibilities of craft and their enduring role as vessels for memory, care, survival and ornamentation across centuries.

I am interested in creating worlds in miniature that evoke imagined ecologies and naturalized manmade environments. I am intrigued by imagining a world where we are indebted to the inherent aliveness of our possessions: how would we live if every object in our lives demanded from us care, nourishment, a piece of our flesh? Can we give it freely?

I hope my objects, and the people who use them, are embedded with a sense of interdependence, earnestness and ritual—the same feelings gifted to me by the ceramics community in Detroit.

Carrie Bea Paveglio is a ceramicist and fiber artist based in Detroit, Michigan. They work from their home studio in Detroit and Ceramics School in Hamtramck.

Before developing their studio practice, Paveglio spent years working in arts communications, collaborating with artists, galleries, museums and cultural organizations on exhibition materials, artist statements and public-facing narratives. This experience provided an intimate view of how artistic careers are built, how cultural value is assigned and how creative communities are sustained.

Paveglio studied English and visual culture at Wayne State University, where they explored the intersections of visual art, literature and creative nonfiction. These experiences continue to inform a practice rooted in close observation, material experimentation and an enduring interest in the social lives of objects.

Recent exhibitions include Artclvb Art & Design Fair (2025) and Ceramics x Fiber: Spotlighting Detroit's Collaborative Craft Community (2026), featuring the collaborative installation windowed: serpentine with fiber artist Isabela Miñana Lovelace.


Exhibitions
Ceramics x Fiber 
March 25-28, 2026
NCECA 

Artclvb Art & Design Fair 
September 19-21, 2025

Upcoming
Boro Ceramics Sale
June  28
1457 Bagley, Detroit

         

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windowed: serpentine
2026

Rocks, serpentine, barnacle shells, and coral fragments from Arecibo, Puerto Rico; harvested black walnut hand-dyed cotton thread; superglue; waxed linen thread; beeswax candles; glass beads; sio-2 prnf sculpture clay; iron oxide; silica glaze; found glass from Belle Isle, Detroit.
Install photo by Kaitlin Fazio, detail shots by Drew Werd
Collaborative installation by fiber artist Isabela Miñana Lovelace and ceramicist Carrie Bea Paveglio


On view at Ceramics x Fiber: Spotlighting Detroit’s Collaborative Craft Community, taking place during NCECA’s 60th anniversary edition 

March 25-28, 2026 

Detroit Design District at the Boyer Campbell Building


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