Elizabeth Schlatter is a ceramic artist, certified personal trainer, curator, and educator whose practice explores how creativity, movement, and body awareness support vibrant lives over time.
Based in Richmond, Virginia, she works across the arts and wellness fields—training clients, making ceramics, teaching workshops, and developing resources that help people sustain creative and active lives.
Schlatter is an ACE- and ACTION-certified personal trainer and wellness coach with the YMCA of Greater Richmond, where she trains clients at both the Northside Family YMCA and the Downtown YMCA. Her work focuses on building strength, mobility, and confidence through thoughtful movement, particularly for beginners, older adults, and individuals navigating changes in their bodies.
Her interest in body mechanics and creative practice led her to create The Aligned Potter, a free online resource dedicated to ergonomics, injury prevention, and sustainable movement practices for pottery makers.
Before focusing more deeply on wellness and ceramics, Schlatter spent more than two decades working in museums and higher education. She served as Interim Executive Director, as well as Deputy Director and Curator of Exhibitions, at the University of Richmond Museums, where her work focused on modern and contemporary art, creative practice, and the role of university museums in public life.
From 2020 to 2022, she served as President of the College Art Association (CAA), the 112-year-old learned society for visual art and art history, after six years on its board of directors.
As a ceramic artist working under the label C-Suite Ceramics, Schlatter creates playful, functional pottery designed to brighten everyday life. Her work features bold patterns, vibrant colors, and thoughtful design—objects meant to be used, enjoyed, and lived with.
Across all of her work—from personal training and ceramics to teaching and research—Schlatter explores one central idea: how creativity, movement, and awareness can support meaningful lives over time.
