Ourania G. Alexopoulos graduated from Michigan State University in 2025, earning a B.F.A. in Graphic Design. While pursuing her studies, she enrolled in a three-dimensional art forms class, specifically wheel-throwing. Since then, she has completed multiple advanced courses with the ceramics faculty at Michigan State University to nurture her inclination toward clay. Upon finishing her undergraduate degree, she completed an additional semester at her alma mater to study atmospheric firing and high-fire glazes. She plans to earn her M.F.A. in the coming years.

Her ceramic practice was founded on timely reactivity. She is not guided by controlling the final form, but rather by the pleasure of clay’s caprice. It is at the wheel that she feels most familiar, and her most cherished occasions are those in which she and the medium lose synchrony and must labor to regain it. Similarly, she is fascinated by the firing process and its sensitivity; she is eager to further her exploration of altered kiln atmospheres and responses to glazes/slips. Clay has taught her to remain responsive when she is often inclined toward the opposite.

She is a clay mixer at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts in downtown Kalamazoo, MI and is presently taking ceramics workshops in the Kirk Newman Art School. She has been accepted into Western Michigan University’s post-baccalaureate program for ceramics and begins the coming fall.