Nasia Palaios
Meet the Teaching Artist
Working predominantly through ceramics, Nasia Palaios is a teaching artist who utilizes common wheel throwing, hand building, and slip casting ceramic techniques, in combination with other interests in photography, screen printing, and illustration. She often creates both functional and nonfunctional, installation work. As an artist, she seeks to explore her own nostalgia of her familial ties in order to reconnect with her Greek and Mexican ancestors, as well as their past ceramic practices.
Nasia is based in Bethlehem , Pennsylvania, She obtained her BFA in ceramics with a teaching concentration from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture. In April of 2025, she won PAEA’s student artist of the month for higher education. Nasia has been featured in three group exhibitions at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Philadelphia, PA (2023, 2024) and has had one solo exhibition “Take Me With You,” (2024) at Tyler as well. Pre and Post graduating from Temple, Nasia has taught individuals ranging from children to adults, with various abilities, in ceramic techniques such as hand building and wheel throwing, as well as other varying art mediums.