Hello, I'm Amie Sell

A sculptor creating art that reminds humans that we are nature and nature is us

These days I mostly use clay to create colorful & playful objects inspired by the interconnection of nature, joy of flowers, and humor of animals.

Currently, I’m working on a new body of ceramic work for a solo show at the Cleveland Botanical Gardens opening in late August 2025.

Living and working in Northeast Ohio, I enjoy bringing the joy of clay to students of all ages and abilities as a teaching artist. As a designer, I make functional neti pots under B. Swell Ceramics.

My long term artmaking goal is to figure out how to bring my ceramic craft skills back to the more experimental mixed media explorations from earlier in my career.

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Ceramic Sculpture

Joy & Technique

Sculptures that celebrate interconnections between nature, humanity and ecology with clay.

Ceramics

Mixed Media Sculpture

Play & Craftsmanship

Found objects, gathered natural materials, and other juxtapositions that create unique artworks and collages

Mixed Media

Ceramic peach colored neti pot on a bathroom counter.

Functional Objects

Neti Pots & Vessels

Crafting multiples of sculptural objects for everyday use, form meets function

Neti Pots & more

Clock hand detail from Time & Big Band art installation

Installations

Temporary & Experiential

Large scale installations, time-based and site specific that invite the audience in to experience

Experience Installations

Seaweed material experiment exploration from Humboldt County, Pacific Ocean

Material Explorations

Wonder & Experimentation

Materials that intrigue me from nature and manufacturing that evolve into sculptures

Explore Materials

Amie Sell teaching youth a sculpture class at a high school

Community & Public Art

Connection & Impact

Uplifting public projects that take teams and community to complete

Public Art & Design

Barn Owls, 2024
Bird Baggage Series
ceramic, handmade figurines

We all bring baggage to relationships. Birds often pair up and have wildly differnt relationship types.

Barn Owls would bring their own perch, on wheels, one neatly packed hardcase suitcase.

What type of bird would you and your partner be?

Blue Jays, 2024
Bird Baggage Series
ceramic, handmade figurines

We all bring baggage to relationships. Birds often pair up and have wildly differnt relationship types.

Blue Jays, well, they would bring trunks and boxes.

What type of bird would you and your partner be?

a pair of blue jays perched on stacks of suitcases, trunks,and boxes.
a closeup of the deatil on the blue jay sculpture

find this pair forsale at @heightsarts in their gallery shop

Blue Birds, 2024
Bird Baggage Series
ceramic, handmade figurines

Bird Baggage was inspired by a custom sculpture made for a couple who loves birds and how easy their later-in-life relationship with each other.

We all bring baggage to relationships. Birds often pair up and have wildly differnt relationship types.

Blue birds would keep things light with light pouches.

What type of bird would you and your partner be?

Flower Receptor, porcelain, 2024
This piece was a happy accident from a flop on the wheel while practicing throwing double walled donut shapes on the wheel.

The organic shape of flowers and structures of utility towers had been on my mind while making this mistake into art.

It's currently on display in the #NewNow2024 annual juried show of the best of the best art in Northeast Ohio. Honored to be included, feeling accepted in my new art community.

See in progress images and video of successful donuts 🍩

#artistarchives #happyaccidents #porcelain #flowerreceptor #featsofunlearning #ceramicart #installshot

Spring inspired work ready for the @screwfactoryart Spring Art Show!

All will be for sale
Friday 6-10 PM &
Saturday 10-3 PM

This is the first batch of glaze fired ceramics from my kiln in my home studio. I'm ecstatic to share it all with you in-person this weekend.

Image List
1. Fire Foxglove Vase
2. Fire Foxglove Vase with topper removed
3. Blooming ring dishes
4. Petal Pusher, wall-hung art
5. Not-so-common Violet, wall-hung art
6. Tulip mugs
7. Air plant holder
8. Bee Honey Pots
9. Legged dishes
10. Watery Eye vases & mug

#screwfactory #ceramicart #bloom #foxglove #ringdish #violet #petal #honeybee #mcm #airplant #eyeball #ceramicsculpture

Bluebirds & Bonsai, ceramic sculpture designed and made for @somerville3212 and her partner David.
It was fun to discuss their relationship and create something meaningful and unique for their new home.
I gave them three design options and this one spoke to them most. They were very happy with the piece and even the bluebirds visited and gave their approval 🐦🐦

Designing one-of-a-kind artwork in celebration of their love was a great honor and joy. My books are open for 2024 to take on a couple more special projects. Reach out if you are curious.

#bonsai #bluebird
#happyanniversary #ceramicsculpture #ceramic

Star Orchids 🌟 💮
hand painted, double sided, porcelain ornaments
send flowers 💐 that last forever to a friend

I'll have these available Dec 15-17 @screwfactoryart
and a few in my online shop 🏷️

www.amiesell.com

#orchids
#ornaments #porcelain

Collection of pieces that will be available @mortarwaterloo for member Winter Sale starting Dec 1st @ 5 pm during the monthly art walk in Waterloo Arts District, Cleveland.

See some new art and meet great artists, maybe even start your holiday shopping.

Trees and hedgehogs 🦔

#waterlooartsdistrict #mortarwaterloo #ceramicart

Holy Basil 🍃 mugs
white stoneware
also known as Tulsi, this beautiful herb is known to help relieve stress and anxiety.

A couple are in my online shop
https://www.amiesell.com/product-page/holy-basil-mug

Free Shipping for #cybermonday
#mugshotmonday #tulsi #holybasil
#teatime #tea

Hedgehogs 🦔
Available Nov 25th for Small Business Saturday in my online shop starting at 10 am

www.amiesell.com
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Free shipping on orders over $80, Nov 25th-27th 📦

POPPIES💮
dazed and glazed this collection brings alive the beauty of the flower with porcelain tea cups, bowls and wall-hanging sculptures

Available this Saturday 11/25 @ 10 am EST in online shop
www.amiesell.com
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Celebrate Small Business Saturday by supporting your local artists and shops

Studio shelves are full of new art ready for release on Small Business Saturday! Check out preview from 78th St Studios third Friday art market. Met some lovely people who love art 🦔

Online store opens at 10 am EST.
www.amiesell.com
🔗In bio

#smallbusinesssaturday #ceramics #buylocal

Bird of Prey butter dishes include the snowy owl this year! They have fluffy claws and would never drop the cover.

Available for purchase online Saturday, Nov 25th at 10 am
www.amiesell.com (link in bio)
& In-person Friday, Nov 17th at 78th Street studios Art Walk in Cleveland.

#butterdish #claw #birdofprey #birdsofinstagram #smallbusinesssaturday #78thstreetstudios

A pileated woodpecker appeared on a hike at Tinker's Creek in the Cleveland Metroparks, one week after I started sculpting one for a gift. Often elusive, I took it as a sign to keep on making more, each with their own personality and red crest mohawk. True punk rockers of the forest!

Did you know that woodpeckers have a super long tongue that wraps all the way up into its cranium?

They will be for sale in my online shop at 10 am EST on November 25th for Small Business Saturday. Link in Bio

#woodpecker #porcelain #sculpture #birdsofinstagram

Cardinal Trinity Memorial, porcelain, 2023

Grieving the loss of three important loved ones inspired this sculpture. Manipulating the clay helped me to transform held emotions into a piece that allows me to call their spirits when needed.

Three cardinals are sheltered between the wings of a snowy owl. A vase and candle holder are built into the sculpture.

In my family, birds are spirit signs of our loved ones reminding us that they are always with us and loved..

Senseless death by war and genocide continue to plague our world. This day of the dead is an especially heavy one for our earth. May you all take a moment to commune with the spirits of your ancestors and find some peace.

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#memorialart #porcelainsculpture #cardinals #spirit #diadelosmuertos #remember #grief #candle

Collage has always been a very soothing way for my hands and brain to work out ideas. A creative warm-up of sorts.

This piece, Dam Age, is one from a developing series about unlearning, natural knowing, transformation, and dreaming with images sourced from outdated science & geography books and architectural magazines. Cutting, deconstructing, reconfiguring and decontextualizing found images.

Join us for the closing of the Works on Paper @agitatorgallery Saturday, October 21, 2023 from 7- 11 pm. I will be there and part of an artist talk about how we work with paper. A limited number of beautiful catalogs of the show are available with high quality prints of each piece in the show!

Dam Age is now available for purchase in my shop.

#collage #featsofunlearning #ancientknowledge #worksonpaper

These images are 5 year-old seeds of inspiration for a burgeoning series of collages and sculptures called ‘Feats of Unlearning’.

I use collage as a way to creatively warm-up conceptually and this series is about unlearning, natural knowing, and dreaming with images sourced from outdated science & geography books and architectural magazines.

Cutting, deconstructing, reconfiguring and decontextualizing found images is relaxing and exciting for my hands and mind to work together.

These images are from a 2018 residency in Ketchikan, Alaska. Arriving at this residency without a solid direction for art making, I ripped apart a 1950s leather-bound book about Alaska and began to meditate on the idea of unlearning while remixing the images into new narratives.

It was a collection of white male-centric, colonizer essays, illustrations, and photos. Reflecting the times, it took the stance that the wild land and indigenous peoples were there to be tamed, conquered, and plundered.

Unlearning the ways of the colonizing mindset is a work-in-progress for many of us white people. My hope is to make work that invokes others to take that journey with me.

#colonization #featsofunlearning #wearenature

These collages, Ancient Knowing 01 & 02, are from a burgeoning series called Feats of Unlearning. Ancient Knowing 02 is currently in the Works on Paper show at @agitatorgallery

I use collage as a way to creatively warm-up conceptually and this series is about unlearning, natural knowing, and dreaming with images sourced from outdated science & geography books and architectural magazines.

Cutting, deconstructing, reconfiguring and decontextualizing found images is relaxing and exciting for my hands and mind to work together.

Join us for the closing of the show On Saturday, October 21, 2023 from 7- 11 pm. I will be there and part of an artist talk about how we work with paper.

A limited number of beautiful catalogs of the show are available with high quality prints of each piece in the show!

Ancient Knowing 01 is now available for purchase in my shop.

#collage #featsofunlearning #ancientknowledge #worksonpaper

Mid Century Modern & trumpet flower ❇️ inspired porcelain vases. This pair is thrown on the wheel, then hand shaped & glazed.

Now available in my shop (link in bio)

Hedge hog cuties out in the wildflowers, enjoying the beginning of fall 🍁 before they head into my shop later this month

I'm typically not too attached to my art, but these little guys bring me so much joy and it will be hard to say good bye.
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#hedgehog #animallovers #furryfriends
#pinchpots

Monster Drawing Rally @spacescle has me energized and inspired! Artists show up and throw down for one hour of drawing. The drawings are hung up and immediately for sale. It's a fundraiser with an optional commission for us artists. It's nice to not be asked to do something for free while supporting the arts community in Cleveland.
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#drawingchallenge #monsterdrawingrally #spacescle #automaticdrawing #watercolorart #watercolordrawing #makeart

Smashing clay pots is the best way l to learn from mistakes + it's fun 😹 This summer I'm practicing throwing large bowls and dinner plates. Clay is always humbling and teaches me non attachment.
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#smash #smashclay #smashpottery #stayhumble #keeppracticing #potterythrowdown

Mary Nell Meyer memorial, porcelain, 2023
@mary.n.meyer was a caregiver to all in her life. This plant holder and vase will be put in the mausoleum where her ashes are for visitors to leave flowers.
We miss her laugh, tenderness, passion and most of all her great hugs.
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#memorial #mommydearest #flowervase #porcelain #gonebutneverforgotten #hugs

My adorable nephews visited my ecotone sculpture in the regional biennial. I love them so much!

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