My desire as an artist is to design and create dishes that enrich the presentation of food while enhancing the dining experience. I make pedestals for food, forms that consist of simple lines with muted colors. I use minimal design and a limited color palette to create an ideal display setting—one meant to enrich our appreciation of food and to enhance the ambiance of one’s home environment. My process includes wheel throwing, hand-building, and slip casting.
—Hiroe Hanazono
Hiroe Hanazono, a native of Japan, received her BA in Spatial Art and Ceramics from California State University-Hayward, and her MFA in Ceramics from the Ohio University School of Art in Athens.
Hiroe has participated in numerous prestigious artist-in-residency programs, a few of which include the Archie Bray Foundation, the International Ceramic Research Center in Denmark, and the Clay Studio in Philadelphia where she was awarded the 2008-2009 Evelyn Shapiro Foundation Fellowship. She produces highly designed functional tableware in her Philadelphia home studio, and also teaches a variety of ceramics classes in New York City and in the Philadelphia region.