Three generations of Ceramics alumni, 20 years apart—Robert Brady (1969), Kin Kwok (1992), and Alissa Goss (2009)—show slides and discuss their careers and life after art school.

Robert Brady began his artistic career as a potter, then moved into figurative ceramic sculpture and eventually to figurative wood sculpture. Today he moves seamlessly between pottery, ceramics, wood, and drawing. He is retired from Sacramento State University, where he was a professor of art, and is currently based in Berkeley.

Kin Kwok (aka K.K.) is a special effects artist for the film industry, a painter, a printmaker, and a sculptor. His work in the fine arts operates at the intersection of religion, ancient folk tales, and classical arts from Eastern and Western cultures. His work has been exhibited throughout the Bay Area; his recent installation at the capitol building in Sacramento, The Missing Community College Student, garnered much attention. He has received many awards, including a Kala Fellowship, the 2006 National Ceramic Competition award at San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, Texas, and the 2002 biennial award from the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento.

Alissa Goss grew up in Los Angeles and currently lives and works in Oakland. She finds inspiration in naturally occurring repetitive patterns in cells, spores, bacteria, flora, and fungi. She abstracts and re-creates these patterns into intimate objects, presented for our close observation. She is also deeply interested in ideas of home and domesticity. She attributes her recurring palette of greens, pinks, and oranges to Southern California’s natural and urban landscape.