Long Beach, CA

Diana Adams, founder of SampleHAUS, started her ceramic journey at Cal State Dominguez Hills in 2005, and is now a full-time potter working in Long Beach, California. Her work is eclectic, graphic, and colorful; finding inspiration in African tribal markings, and color/geometric nods from the Bauhaus movement. She has had opportunities to work with Tia Mowry x Etsy in a home line collaboration, sells her work on West Elm online store, and thrives to build the black ceramic community on social media.

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Images of Work

Techniques

Sgraffito on bright colored underglaze and over glaze

Favorite Products

I started using Speedball orange bats before I even knew what speedball was. Then I was introduced to their underglazes, Melon is my favorite color. It's smooth, bright, and fun, just like me!