Region of Plenty is the ceramic design brand of Canadian artist Jason Schiedel. It was founded in 2020 to produce artisanal ceramics for use and contemplation.

Jason Schiedel is from Waterloo Ontario, and currently lives on the shores of Lake Huron in the rural town of Port Elgin. He studied fine art, earning an undergraduate degree in Sculpture/Installation from the Ontario College of Art, and an MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Jason encountered clay as a Research Affiliate at MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies. The experience inspired him to establish a ceramics studio, adapting his knowledge of sculptural process to the unique challenge of working with clay.

Jason brings a sculptor’s sensibility to ceramics, encapsulating life like moments in slipcast vessels that are energetic, resilient, and changeable. His ceramics serve a dual purpose as containers; they hold as well as meditate on the act of holding. Just as the body is a repository for memory his works carry the expressive and painterly evidence of casting in their skin. The dynamic contours of these polymorphous pots move and swell in response to themselves. They explore a boundary between self and other, with intersecting forms that appear as if multiple entities are housed in one. These works encourage viewing from different perspectives, making life with them a constant revelation.

Mould making and design workshops with such masters as Angelo di Petta and Peter Pincus have enhanced Jason’s self-guided practice. In 2020 he participated in a yearlong Creative Directions mentorship that culminated in the exhibition "Cultivate" at the Gardiner Museum for Ceramic Art in Toronto. In 2021 he was included in the "Ceramics Congress Canadian Exhibition" curated by Carole Epp, and recently exhibited work in "Confined" at the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery.