Daniela de Sousa is a ceramic artist, sculptor and educator. She immigrated from Brazil in 1999 She earned an Associate’s degree from Quinebaug Community College, a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts with concentration in Sculpture from ECSU and a master’s degree in Arts Education from the University of Florida.

Daniela currently resides in Mansfield Center, CT and works as an adjunct Instructor in the Sculpture Department at ECSU. She is the owner and founder of Spiral Arts Studio, a community arts and ceramics studio in Willimantic, Windham, CT. 

As an artist, Daniela works with a variety of media, but she loves clay and specializes in ceramics. Her work explores enduring universalities and its relationship with the human experience. Daniela relies on her process to make sense of her own journey through life’s topsy and turvy and she strongly believes that access to art making opportunities is a requisite of the possibility of a just society.