About Me
Scholar | Creator of The URBN Sloth
B Lin is a ceramicist and art historian who bridges scholarly research with creative practice. She is passionate about exploring the profound contributions of Black women to contemporary art culture through the lens of ceramics, particularly the historical significance of hand-building techniques passed down through generations of women.
Rooted in the understanding of ceramics as both a domestic art and a craft, B Lin examines how this medium has shaped the livelihoods and agency of women throughout history. This perspective drew her to the field, recognizing the resilience, innovation, and storytelling embedded in ceramic traditions.
As a ceramicist, she works on the wheel, embracing this practice as a gesture of acknowledgment and dialogue with the rich history of hand-building and its cultural relevance. Her creative process is deeply informed by archival research and the narratives of contemporary artists who preserve and amplify these stories within their work.
By intertwining historical context with personal practice, B Lin seeks to illuminate the language of ceramics as a medium of utility and profound expression. Her work honors the legacy of women who have shaped this art form while contributing to its evolving narrative in contemporary culture.
Through her dual roles as scholar and maker, she celebrates ceramics as a vessel of memory, identity, and empowerment.
Born and raised in California. B became a New Yorker in 2021 as she started her MA Modern Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies program at Clumbia University (2023)
Her longstanding career in non-profit visual art space has given her opportunities in curatorial, art handling, and asset development for exhibitions, socials, and project management.
Research Focus | Black Feminist Practicum
Focusing on the Black Feminist Pedagogies that have created intersectional feminism and exemplified social justice that has measurable effects on community engagement, what happens when we use Black Feminism as a way to view art is that autonomy, sexuality, social structures, and concepts can be applied more readily, which is critical of perception and understanding.
I challenge us viewers and artists to complicate how we know what we know to allow the nuance, the subtlety, and ambiguity that takes place with true appreciation of expression.
Method
Studio-informed work as a ceramicist
Museum, gallery, university visual art spaces and programming
public program administrative organization and production
Current Project
Archival Narrative Project | Black Women Ceramicists
Burnished Earth: Black Women in Ceramics
This project argues that oral history and Black feminist theory serve as critical curatorial tools to preserve the legacies of Black women ceramicists, whose practices challenge the craft/fine art binary and expand American ceramics discourse. By centering matrilineal knowledge, community building, and embodied memory, the research reframes archives to recognize ceramics as a vital site of Black feminist cultural production.
Research Focus
Being a B.A.E. or Black Art Educated is the intentional pursuit of scholarship in black visual culture, spanning art and craft through makers, historians, exhibitions, and spaces that champion and center Black life and expression within visual culture.
@urbnartbae | @theurbnsloth
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I’m committed to reshaping how we learn about and experience art.
By uniting Black visual culture, community art practices, and accessible education, I challenge the paywalls, gatekeeping, and AI-driven distortions that limit who gets to tell cultural stories. As a digital curator, I build spaces of belonging where knowledge is shared—not hidden—and where creative communities can grow with intention and freedom.”