Alexa Hernandez is a ceramicist from Laredo, Texas. She received a BA in Communications and a Studio Art Minor from Texas A&M International University in 2020. Alexa later became the first ever Virtual Artist-in-Residence for Daphne Art Foundation in 2021, where she started to experiment with pigmented clays and a Japanese hand-building technique named nerikomi. Drawing inspiration from antique patchwork quilts and pictorial needlework art, Alexa makes functional ceramics that are colored with a constellation of mix-match and wonky patterns. Alexa works closely with WSW’s Business Operations Assistant and Marketing Associate in all things relating to administrative and marketing upkeep.