BIO

Jimée Katelyn Hayes (b. 2000, Washington, D.C.) is a Philadelphia-based multidisciplinary artist working across ceramics, photography, and drawing. Hayes is primarily recognized for her wheel-thrown clay vessels. Her ceramic practice combines the technical use of wheel-throwing, mold-making, hand-building, and digital fabrication, including clay printing and prototyping accessible clay tools. 

Her work often features liquid-holding vessels, such as vases, cups, goblets, and wash basins, as well as pouring pots like pitchers, jugs, and bottles. She is currently developing a series that investigates her family archives. Collecting photographs and interviews specifically by the women. This work is an attempt to use clay to connect to her matrilineal lineage through storytelling. 

Hayes is an alum of Moore College of Art & Design, where she earned a Master of Arts degree in Art Education with an emphasis in Inclusive Practices. Her focus is on studio practice, pedagogical research, and the development of her teaching artist practice.