Carter Pasma

Caine College of the Arts

Art and Design Department

Carter Pasma is originally from White Bear Lake, Minnesota and received his Bachelor of Fine Art in Ceramics from the University of Wisconsin-Stout. After graduating in 2019 he moved to Bozeman, Montana where he was a Post-Bacc student for two years at Montana State University. While living in Bozeman, Pasma helped build two kilns at MSU, a cross draft wood kiln and a gas-powered soda kiln. In 2021, Pasma moved to Logan, Utah in pursuit of his Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics at Utah State University. While at USU, Pasma has been researching soda firing, reduction cooling and the developing high alumina clay bodies. Since arriving at USU, Pasma has been published multiple times in two of the ceramic’s communities most popular magazines. He has participated in 3 invitational exhibitions as well as 12 juried exhibitions. Pasma was also recently awarded the Gallery Curators Choice Award in the 2023 Juried National XII at Red Lodge Clay Center. In the summer of 2023, Pasma designed and built a new, smaller soda kiln at USU to aid in his continued research of soda firing, reduction cooling, and the development and testing of high alumina clay bodies.