Nickolas Carl Hurlbut is an artist currently living in Pullman, Washington, in his first year of the MFA in Art program at WSU. He moved to Pullman from Portland, Oregon, where he lived for 13 years. In Portland he taught high school art for five years at Milwaukie High School after receiving his Masters of Teaching with a focus in Art from Lewis and Clark College. Before living in Portland, Nickolas received his BA in Studio Art and Art Education from Cal Poly Humboldt with a focus in photography.

Nickolas primarily works in photography and ceramics. His photography work is primarily film photography focusing on portraiture of the queer community living around him. During Nickolas’ time in Portland, he volunteered for Newspace Center for Photography for three years, showing in numerous galleries within Oregon including Blue Sky Gallery in Portland and Lightbox Gallery in Astoria. Sassy Ceramics is a Ceramics business he started while in Portland where he was a member of the Oregon Potters Association. Through his membership with the Oregon Potters Association he helped organize and participated in Ceramics Showcase—the largest showcase of ceramic artwork in North America and Ceramics Northwest—a pop up gallery in downtown Portland. His ceramic work is largely wheel thrown and then hand built onto.

During his MFA at WSU he seeks to expand his knowledge of photography and ceramics, experimenting with bringing the mediums together through screenprinting and relating the mediums to each other within the same bodies of work.

You can see Nickolas Carl’s work on his website at NickolasCarl.com or on instagram @nickolascarl for his photography work or @sassy_ceramics for his ceramic work.