Guest Artist Lecture: Ibrahim Said

Artist Ibrahim Said was born into a family of potters in Fustat, Egypt, a bustling, age-old center for ceramic production located just south of Cairo. Like generations before him, Said was taught by his father and soon combined his ceramic skill with his deep fascination for historical Egyptian pottery and Islamic art and architecture. Now based in North Carolina, Said’s current ceramic work joins intricate carving with monumental scale.

In 2015, Said was a guest Artist in Residence at The Clay Studio and, in 2018, a finalist for the Burke Prize at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. The artist’s work is held in museum collections, including the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.