Jessamyn Go is a ceramic artist based in Mastic Beach Long Island, NY. She holds a BS in Studio Art from New York University and has exhibited internationally, including the XV Florence Biennale, 1000 Vases in Milan and Paris, and the Every Woman Biennial in New York. In 2025, Go was named an Andy Warhol Visual Arts Program Artist through The Nature Conservancy of New York. She is also a recipient of the Long Island Grants for the Arts 2026 Artist Fellowship and the Optimum Small Business Grant through the LIA Foundation. Her work is represented by Kasper Contemporary, Russell Steele, and has a curated collection featured at the Parrish Art Museum Store.
Beyond the studio, Go’s work extends into education and community engagement. She serves as the Ceramics Program Coordinator at The Studio at Gallery North and Director of the Ecology Art Lab for the Mastic Beach Conservancy. She is also actively seeking grants to support Shaping the Shoreline, a community initiative designed to make clay workshops free and accessible to underserved neighborhoods throughout Long Island. In addition, Jessamyn serves on the Suffolk County Citizens Advisory Board for the Arts. Together, these roles reflect her deep commitment to inclusive, community-centered creative learning.
Across sculpture, teaching, and public programming, Go approaches clay as both medium and metaphor—a way to shape connection, honor process, and imagine more empathetic ways of inhabiting the world.
“I seek to create a tangible dialogue through figurative ceramic sculpture with surreal and abstract influences. Sculptures that invites viewers into the same sensory and meditative engagement that guides my process of making. My work is rooted in the belief that creating and viewing can mirror one another: both acts of presence, attention, and embodied connection through touch, sight, and quiet listening.
Ceramics is an inherently sensual and grounding medium. I am drawn to the tactile intimacy of working with clay, the weight of the earth in my hands, the repetitive movement of my body circling each form, and the meditative rhythm that emerges through this physical exchange. Within this space, a dialogue comes to life as bodily and sensory awareness activates biomorphic, three-dimensional forms.
For me, surface is essential—it’s how people first enter the work. Through layered glazes, crackled textures, hand-painted text, and the metallic shifts of raku firing, the surface engages the senses. The work asks for more than a glance; it invites time, movement, and a bodily response.
Ultimately, my intention is to create a fully embodied encounter. Objects that ask to be held, traced, and felt, fostering a shared moment of attention, reflection, and connection between maker, material, and viewer.”
-Jessamyn Go
What does Femme Sole mean?
“For me the significance of “Femme Sole” amplifies the existence of Womxn owned businesses. Each Femme Sole ceramic piece encapsulates the vitality and spirit of the brave individuals who confront the ongoing struggle for peace, engaging in a relentless fight against violence and oppression directed towards the vulnerable, including Womxn, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA+ communities.”
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Birds eye view of trimming a brown cup
Image of the inside of the Femme Sole Ceramic Studio.
Close up of the Femme Sole Signature Collection Vases by Jessamyn Go
Image of hanging pots in jute twine
I acknowledge the Unkechaug Nation, the original stewards of the land where I live and work in Mastic Beach, NY. I honor their enduring relationship to this land and recognize their ongoing cultural, spiritual, and environmental contributions. I pay my respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging, and extend that respect to Indigenous communities connected to the materials and traditions within my practice.