Ceramic artworks can be used to tell coded artistic stories, create awareness, and provide insightful solutions to human problems. Coded ceramic artwork involves high creativity, observation, and the ability to communicate in thoughtful yet understandable forms.

Vicki Gunter is an expert clay ceramic artist. Her artworks are either telling a story, creating awareness, or exploring the beauty of nature. One fascinating thing about her sculptural artwork is – she leaves space for personification. Anybody in possession of her artwork can add a personal story to it.

Vicki Gunter is a clay artist, dancer, choreographer, and massage therapist. She is a native of California, born in Oakland and raised in Pleasant Hill. Since 1970, Her studio and home has been in East Oakland. She has made many nature-based, solution-oriented, and awareness-driven art pieces. Vicki gets her inspiration from the challenges facing the world, nature, animals, humans, and her environment. Most of her artworks are always in series. 

She creates ceramic art intended to stir the visceral will of people to be aware and face the many challenges of the world with joy and hope. She makes use of recycled clay, paper clay, glaze, stains, underglaze, glasses, and beeswax in most of her artworks. All her artworks are thoughtful, unique, one-of-a-kind, and visually appealing.

Vicki has a background in Art and Biology from San Francisco State University from 1968-1970. Vicki worked for 40 years as a certified dancer/choreographer/motion therapist, massage & acupressure therapist. Today her focus is her Ceramic Art. Vicki’s earliest clay influence (1968) was studying with clay funk artist Clayton Bailey. She also studied with Michelle Gregor. And at Laney College with Alan Meisel, Larry Henderson, Sherry Karver, Susannah Israel and Anna Vaughan.

She is concerned about the many ecological and environmental challenges in the world. She is research-oriented and loves providing solutions to problems. She researches and observes nature by gardening, hiking, and sketching. Due to her adventurous nature, she seems to have endless ways of communicating through clays in simple and understandable forms

Vicki Gunter has participated in many solo and group shows, some of which can be found on her website. She has received many awards, such as the People`s Choice Award – in 2020, Juror Award – in 2016, and the Alpha award – in 2014. Her work is in many private art collections that can be found in many places across California. Her series "Plate tectonics" can be found in Richmond, "Frog Lantern" can be found in El Cerrito, and “It’s Not One Thing… It’s Everything” can be found in Santa Barbara.

Vicki Gunter is a member of the Association of Clay and Glass Artists. She is also a member of the Northern California Woman`s Caucus for art, among other professional affiliates.

Vicki's artworks are an embodiment of creativity, uniqueness, and beauty. Each piece of her artwork has a background story that can easily be personalized. She has made 7 series sculptural artworks that focus on human challenges and social justice issues. Each of her artworks is a treasury possession with encrypted memories.