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Kenisha Webster

Ceramic & Mixed Media Artist

Kenisha Webster is a ceramic and mixed-media artist based in Texarkana, Texas. Working with wild clay harvested from family land, reclaimed materials, and earth-derived pigments, her practice explores memory, ancestry, faith, and transformation. Through sculpture, installation, and clay-based works on paper, she investigates the ways land carries history and how material can serve as a vessel for remembrance.

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Artist Statement

I work primarily with wild clay harvested from my family's land in the Pinewoods of Northeast Texas, along with custom blended and reclaimed clays.

 

The iron-rich soil of this landscape once shaped my childhood muddies and marked hopscotch lines on county blacktop roads where I played with my cousins.

 

That same soil now forms both material and memory within my practice.

Material Process

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My process begins at the source. I harvest raw clay by hand, process and refine it myself, and work it into a usable form through time, labor, and observation. This slow transformation becomes a dialogue with the land, where variations, impurities, and resistance guide what the material can become.

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Sustainability is central to my practice. I reclaim and recycle clay whenever possible, reuse scraps and byproducts, and remain intentional about reducing waste in both process and firing.

Memory & Ancestry

Rooted in my African heritage, my work reflects an ongoing dialogue between land, ancestry, and memory. I understand clay as an archive that holds, pressure, gesture, and history.

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Fire completes this record, permanently altering surface and structure while revealing what cannot be undone. Through these processes I explore how materials carry evidence of endurance, survival, and transformation.

Contemporary Practice

My work moves between vessel, sculpture, installation, and mixed media, often pushing clay beyond traditional definitions as both structure and surface. Wild clay from my family's land remains central to this exploration, offering unpredictability and grounding that I aim not to control, but to collaborate with.

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Through this practice I seek to honor the land as living history, one that I am both shaped by and responsible to, revealing how memory, resilience, and transformation exist within the materials we too often overlook beneath our feet.

Biography

Kenisha Webster is a ceramic and mixed-media artist based in Northeast Texas whose work explores memory, ancestry, faith, and transformation through wild clay harvested from family land and reclaimed materials.

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She earned a Bachelor of Science in Liberal Studies with a ceramics emphasis from East Texas A&M University, graduating Summa Cum Laude while completing advanced coursework and independent studies in ceramics, and an Associate of Arts in Fine Arts from Texarkana College. She has also been accepted into the Master of Fine Arts in Studio Arts (Ceramics) program at Stephen F. Austin State University.

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Her work has been exhibited throughout Texas and is held in private collections. Webster is represented by Studio To Gallery in Miami, Florida.

Selected Exhibitions

  • Marfa Invitational Open, Marfa, TX (2025)

  • Ceramics on the Wall VII, Goldmark Cultural Center, Dallas, TX (2025)

  • Ceramics on the Wall VI, Goldmark Cultural Center, Dallas, TX (2024)

  • Finding Connections Through Color, Mesquite Arts Center, Mesquite, TX (2025-2026)

  • Adult Juried International Exhibit, TRAHC Regional Arts Center, Texarkana, TX (2025)

  • Alumni Highlight: Visions and Views, Texarkana College, Texarkana, TX (2025)

Awards & Recognitions

* 2nd Place, Adult Juried International Exhibit, TRAHC Regional Arts Center (2025)

* Featured Alumni Artist, Texarkana College Student Art Show (2025)

* Juror's Choice, Ceramics on the Wall VI, Goldmark Cultural Center (2024)

* 3rd Place, Design Downtown Regional Art Contest, TRAHC (2023)

Press & Publications

* NETX Crossroads Magazine, Feature Article (2025)

* Texarkana Gazette, TRAHC Annual Juried Exhibition Coverage (2025)

* Texarkana College, Alumni of the Month (2025)

* Cass County Journal-Sun, Artist Feature (2025)

Representation

Studio To Gallery

Miami, Florida

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