Speaking
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Invite Kelvin to SpeakI'm Kelvin Crosby. A potter who happens to be deafblind.
I live with Usher syndrome type 2 — born hard of hearing, my vision now like looking through wax paper. I work by feel, on a potter's wheel, and the clay becomes the story — the same shaping this thing called life puts all of us through. To be shaped, you have to be thrown on the wheel.
Motivational Speaker. Live Pottery Demonstration. Never Build Alone.
The Potter pulls you through suicidal thoughts, addictions, and isolation — you matter. I see you.
Invite Kelvin to SpeakStay on the Wheel of Life
I've been speaking with a potter's wheel for over five years now — invited back more than once, keynoting at national conferences, on stages across the country — with one focus: helping people stay on the wheel of life and take on whatever's next. Suicide, addiction, and loneliness all come from the same place: isolation. I work it out one piece of pottery at a time, because nobody was meant to build alone. From big stages to small homeless shelters, I bring the same wheel — because every soul matters to a potter, and every piece of clay has a purpose.
Ways to Work With Me
Pottery Healing
A one-on-one experience: you shape a piece of pottery while working through a season you're in now, or one you've carried for a while. Some things are easier to process with your hands.
Contact KelvinDeafBlind Potter
The ministry I lead — where the fuller story lives, including my faith, and where I speak for churches and faith-based events.
Visit DeafBlind PotterInventions
I build things to solve problems I've lived myself. More on the way.
Visit See Me CaneMeet Kelvin Crosby
I was born hard of hearing. That wasn't a choice — mine or anyone's. But my parents made one: they decided to raise me as a hearing child. Hearing aids. Speech therapy. Years of appointments before I even understood what they were preparing me for. I didn't choose how my story started. I only got to choose what I did with it.
What Shape Are You?
This life is the potter, and we're the clay — every hard season either breaks you or shapes you. I chose to be shaped. My challenges didn't stop me — they turned into three things: sitting one-on-one with people to help them heal through clay, the ministry I lead as the DeafBlind Potter, and an invention built to keep blind people from being hit by cars, a risk 1 in 3 of us face. I didn't just survive it. I built something out of it.
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