Studio Yaga is a largely functional art practice.

Hope Citron is the craft person behind the nesting doll. Hope’s home centered studio is nestled in an old farmhouse under a red roof just beyond the boundaries of Helena, MT.

Formerly a wood fired potter, Hope has expanded her craft practice to explore weaving objects for both the home and self. Natural dying, mostly with plants from her home garden, has a large influence in Hope’s creative practice. Montana’s landscape and the critters who inhabit it are a major source of inspiration. Nature strikes Hope as the best content creator she’s experienced. Hope is slowly bringing her clay studio out of fallow as she seeks to develop a new fluency in a formerly familiar material. Though she still enjoys the community aspect and intoxicating flame of woodfired pottery she’s currently enjoying the properties of light as it passes through clay and the challenges(!) of surface decoration suited for oxidation firing.