Adornos Gallery, Maxine Jacobson & Kim Norberg

Maxine Jacobson

Maxine Jacobson is a ceramic artist who began working with clay in the mid-1970s. She attended Lake Placid Center for the Arts in Lake Placid, NY and the University of Montana School of Visual and Media Arts Ceramics Program in Missoula Montana. After a 40 year hiatus from clay she re-submerged into the world of her favorite art medium in Todos Santos where she has lived with her family since 2011. 

Kim Norberg

Her work is heavily influenced by her love of nature and nature informed shapes, textures, hues and firing processes – carving shapes from a single ball of clay and applying surface textures (kurinuki), for example. Maxine currently shares the Adornos studio spaces with her daughter Kimi. This mother and daughter team shares a passion for design and artistic collaboration. Kimi Norberg is an Interior Architect and Industrial Designer who has been working in the field of design for over 27 years. She studied at Pratt Institute. Over the years she has worked as a interior, kitchen, furniture designer as a design stylist and managing her own Design-build company while living in Boston, MA and Washington, DC. 

Kimi experiences the world through color, patterns and textures, inspired by beautiful design, nature and travel. Her love is working with the energetics of space using a Vedic science called Vastu Shastra, designing, exploring and creating with different materials and collaborating with other artists. She has been visiting Todos Santos since 2011 where her family has a home. In 2020, Kimi and her mother Maxine Jacobson created Adornos, a Todos Santos based design studio featuring pottery, clothing, furniture, lighting and art designed by her and her mother.