KRASTA KERAMIKA is ceramics studio in Riga, Latvia, working mostly on porcelain design and ceramic arts. The creative team of the studio is duo of Esmeralda Purvišķe and Zahars Ze. Studio formed in 2017.
Krasta Keramika is focusing on contemporary tableware & functional design that is combined with artistic finish. Everything in studio is hand made. Studio focusing on slipcasting porcelain, producing models and moulds as well as handbuild ceramics using clay and stoneware. There is no conveyor here, not IKEA here. It is power of craft skilled people who pay attention to every detail and come up with ideas of how to make our life more beautiful. Studio has produced numerous of projects helping out artists and designers to finish their ceramic projects.

STREETS OF BALTICS is a collaboration of illustrators, animators & street artists from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia and latvian porcelain designer Esmeralda Purviške.

This is the 3rd release of self initiated project called Streets of Baltics. All porcelain cups are handmade in Krasta Keramika studio. White, high quality porcelain been slipcasted in molds that made of plaster. After first firing cups been sanded and clear glazed. Then the fire decide the look and shape of the cups. After that we add the art that artists provided to us. Artwork has been screenprinted with porcelain paint that ensures high quality and durability. Krasta Keramika is doing this to show what we think is perfect colaboration between artist and designer. We do this to keep the artistic community of Baltics together!

3rd drop of ‘Streets of Baltics’

AKVILE MAGICDUSTÉ (LT)

Vilnius based illustrator AKVILE MAGICDUSTÉ believes in the magic of everyday things. She is also really fond of witches, however, she doesn't possess any witchcraft powers herself, except drawing and some skateboarding tricks. In her comics and illustrations, she enjoys utilizing bright tropical colors to craft surreal, dreamy, and poetic narratives.

@akvilemagicdust

ETTOJA (LT)

Following the urge to express and rebel against traditional art on the dark streets of the Vilnius oldtown Ettoja Cat was born. The night, the paint and the time scrupulocity were his originators. Playing with the urban spirits, drinking electronic milk, and skratching black lines into the walls flesh, he has risen, strengthen and became almost a phantom. Many walls, canvases and ink markers have passed, but Ettoja stayed same black and bristling. Cat nips your calf and encourages to move forward. You mustn't stop, but move around O-O.

@ettoja

ZIEPE (LV)

ZIEPE is a hardcore nature lover and bicycle rider. Aside from that, she mostly enjoys herself drawing weird animal characters, printmaking in ancient techniques, spraypainting walls bigger than her and sticking stickers around the city. She is cool!

@ziepe.ziepe

VOUR (LV)

VOUR an artist from Riga, Latvia has been active since the end of 2011, combining graffiti lettering and figural compositions of his imagination. Coming straight from the corner of being Fine Arts graduate and anonymous street vandal he uses different mediums for spreading his word and communicating to the masses through his ironic drawings. His works are mostly a combination of a geometric, illustrative style, with a harmonious choice of tones. The spatial nature of images also helps them often to become three-dimensional objects.

@worst.project.ever

STINA LEEK (EE)

STINA LEEK loves painting wonky lines and drawing characters that make you giggle.. or just flowers with eyeballs in them. She is also very passionate about Ajuokse - a project that grew out of a dream to bring together the alternative artists in Estonia (but which is slowly making its way to the Baltic artists also!). So when not doing her own artwork, she's probably busy painting walls for someone else's exhibit or rolling cables for other art-related events.
(PSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! When in Tartu, feel free drop her a line!)

@stina.leek

ROLAND SEER (EE)

ROLAND SEER is an artist at head, animator by profession and musician at heart. A father of two who likes to solve exciting creative problems, create characters, worlds and stories. His work is both childish and sophisticated. Sometimes lecturer at Tartu Art School, Pallas and EKA. He is a passionate animator whose work has been recognized at the Venice Film Festival, the European Film Academy, the Zagreb and Annecy Animation Festivals. Curiosity, playfulness and readiness for change is what keeps Roland on the road.

@rolandseer

Artists behind ‘STREETS OF BALTICS’ 2023