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SPOTLIGHT by eugenie highlights our in-house creative work, modern sustainable designers, and inspiring community members who share our values.

Artist

Jessie Hicks, Vernor Pots

Dates

May 2025

Spotlight

As both a mother and a maker, local artist Jessie Hicks explores transformation through her creative practice. Navigating the tension between intention and reception, she brings a nuanced sensibility to the everyday. Working across a range of mediums—including clay, paint, and food—Jessie’s art emerges from a deeply rooted sense of self. Whether kneading dough or clay, she follows the rhythms that come most naturally to her.

A former owner and culinary force behind Detroit-based award-winning cafés Astro and Ochre, Jessie has since shifted her focus to her solo studio practice, Vernor Pots. Operating out of a converted gas station in Southwest Detroit, her studio now serves as a new kind of community hub—this time centered around ceramics. Living and creating in a city known for its resilience and reinvention, Jessie’s work is inseparable from place, grounded in the tactile, the relational, and the cyclical. Across all her forms—ceramics, painting, baking, mothering—she moves with an embodied awareness of time, transformation, and the personal imprint of the hand.

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