Orb Weaver Ceramics is the work of Chicago-based ceramic artist Alexandra Bohanan. Drawing from historical ornament, devotional objects, natural history, and mythology, their work reinterprets familiar forms and symbols through contemporary ceramics.

Alex creates functional and sculptural objects that explore transformation, mortality, ritual, and the ways we assign meaning to the things we live with. Vessels, censers, tableware, and small objects reference artifacts that feel excavated, inherited, devotional, or slightly uncanny. Recurring imagery including insects, teeth, bones, animals, plants, and mythological symbols creates a visual language that moves between the beautiful and the macabre.

Each piece is made by hand in Chicago, often allowing the unpredictability of glaze, firing, and the handmade surface to remain visible. The result is a collection of distinctly modern relics, contemporary ceramic objects that blur the boundaries between artifact, ornament, and art object.