about

Beneath it all

Kendra Scanlon created Subgrade Studio to bridge landscape architecture and product design with the creation of ritual objects in connection to land, culture, and geological history. She takes a social and material ecology lens to relay the subjective narratives of everyday objects.

Kendra has been working with clay since the turn of the millennium (hell ya) and began crafting glazes from found materials in 2025. Her practice currently includes wild harvesting minerals for glazes, researching and documenting material origins, and relationship building with riparian and coastal landscapes — places that need to heal from, adapt to, and endure the anthropogenic pressures of the contemporary world.

Check out the gallery to see previous works and private collection.

kscanlon@subgrade.studio

We respectfully acknowledge the unceded traditional territory of the Yuułuʔiłʔatḥ people and the traditional keepers of the land where we practice design. We keep material stories central to our practice in an effort to connect to the land we inhabit and create with.