Emmett Jorgensen is a ceramic sculptor and painter from Litchfield, Connecticut, currently based in Portland, Maine. He is working to receive his BFA from Maine College of Art & Design in the year 2024.
Jorgensen often uses highly playful and sometimes brutish methods of handbuilding in his construction of forms. As he makes pots and sculptures, he is inspired by clay's capacity for holding marks and the transformative nature of glaze. He engages with themes of childhood, queer masculinity, and sensual touch. Through his work he contends with a normative understanding of the adult man and his performances.