Connor Keeran is an artist based in the Coachella Valley whose work engages geology, craft, memory, and form. Rooted in the desert landscape of his upbringing, Keeran uses handbuilding techniques and locally sourced materials—rocks, sand, found clay and eroded fragments—to create ceramic works that evoke the region’s four surrounding mountain ranges and sedimentary histories. These tactile pieces bring the geologic into dialogue with the personal, transforming environmental residue into sc