Hi, I'm Nat. Founder of Pink Slip Studio

Nat Miller (she/they) is a multimedia queer femme artist and arts professional residing in Seattle, WA. Although her primary medium is ceramics, she also makes art with metals, glass, textiles, words, photography, and dance. Their most fulfilling artistic place is exploring materials, new processes, and marrying mediums together to create something otherwise unobtainable.

Nat holds a BFA from Rio Grande University in Studio Arts, with a minor in Photography. And an MFA from Seattle University in Arts Leadership. In their current professional life, Nat is the Special Events Coordinator at The Frye Museum. In her free time, Nat enjoys reading, going to drag shows, dancing, motorcycling, connecting with queer community, and hanging out with her partner and their two Sphynx cats, Rudy and Tofu.

Artist Statement

My practice is a meditation on exploration, queerness, grief, adornment, words, tactility, and materiality. Although my primary medium is ceramics, I also make art with metals, glass, textiles, words, photography, and dance. The happiest place for myself artistically is marrying two or more of those mediums together to create something otherwise unobtainable.

I find inspiration in tedious processes, mixing mediums, fragility, queerness, duality, kink, and written word; among countless other things. I find ceramics infinitely interesting because I am able to explore the community-powered craft traditions of this medium. Yet it is also a medium that allows me to create sculptural, less digestible work whenever that feels appropriate too. Ceramics feels like a shapeshifter, it’s both deeply ancient and modern to the extent it’s barely recognizable as such. Therefore it indulges my desire to be ever exploring alongside it.

My current body of work and practice is two fold: one part about exploring functional ware and ceramic jewelry that is meant to be lived with/in, used, gifted, and cherished. The other side is sculptural work that I use to explore grief, ritual, the tumultuous experience of living inside a body, queerness, and the power of words. And sometimes I’m able to obtain the magic of where those two concepts intersect and my work ends up feeling lived in and exalted, high concept and familiar, obtainable and precious.