Meet Dina Nur Satti,
a ceramicist and designer from Sudan whose been able to call Somalia, France and Kenya home in her younger years and most recently, Brooklyn.
With a concentration on the cultures of Africa and the Middle East, she has a bachelor's degree in international and intercultural studies. Her fascination in ritual artifacts and spatial design, as well as her study of African art and pre-colonial African communities, are what inspired her to pursue ceramics.
Nur Ceramics, is a combination of Satti's middle name and the Sufi notion that one's shadow reflects light. This concept sets the tone for her ceramics, which honor Eastern African cultural traditions and feminine landscape images.
Satti's designs artistically convey the contemporary aesthetics of her current reality as a millennial in Brooklyn, despite their historical inspirations—demonstrating that excellent design is timeless and non-regional.
She frequently travels to tribes that continue to practice traditional crafts in Africa, from Morocco to Ethiopia, to speak with them and conduct study on how artifacts are used in ceremonial rituals.
Dina was drawn to clay as a medium not just due to her love of design. Enjoy her works and the stories she tells of her culture and travels through clay.
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