With interests in mid-century design, pop-culture and craftsmanship, Sam Knopp creates functional ceramics that are playful, minimal and richly tactile. Excited by the materiality and process of ceramics, Sam researches and develops her own clay-bodies & glazes putting them together in unexpected combinations to explore the relationship of surface to form, manufactured to handmade, and function to sculpture.

Sam received her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Emily Carr University of Art and Design (Vancouver, BC) in 2013. There she was the recipient of the Circle Craft Graduation Award and the BMO First Art Award for BC. Pursuing both a functional and sculptural practice she has exhibited work across North America and in 2015 she was awarded the Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award for Emerging Artist in Craft and Design. Since returning home to Alberta (2017) she has set-up a full-time studio practice in Irma.