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Steinberg, Lorene

Pottery by Lorene

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My pottery is wheel-thrown stoneware, trimmed with a footring, and bisque fired. The designs are hand drawn in pencil, hand painted with underglaze, then bisque fired a second time. The piece is finally dipped in clear glaze and fired a third time to stoneware temperature. My ideas come from architecture, textiles, stained glass windows, natural forms, wallpaper, and especially historic Italian majolica. Each piece is unique.

The work is food safe and microwave safe. Hand washing is recommended.

Hughes, Bob & Sally

River Rat Pottery

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We are a husband and wife team who love living history and sharing our passion for traditional American crafts. We create redware pottery—both utilitarian and decorative—inspired by early American redware, using traditional materials and processes. Often, our inspiration comes from early American folk art created in other mediums such as wood or leather. Fraktur has been a great reference for decorative ideas.

Our work is used and sold at many museums and historic sites. We hope to keep traditional crafts relevant by adapting our work so it appeals to a changing market. For example, we create traditional Pennsylvania German feather trees that are displayed in wheel-thrown redware bases with impressed decoration created using leatherworking tools.

Often, my wife brings her antique box looms to shows and weaves linen tape using both historical and contemporary colors. This handwoven tape is sometimes used to embellish our pottery.

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Oliver, Amy

Monkeytown Pottery

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I have been a potter for over 30 years, my focus is on form and function as well as surface design. I mix and use colored slips on bare clay to carve and sculpt illustrations, often featuring nature, trees, mountains and many recurring animal characters from the forest. I strive to make beautifully crafted functional art, I want my pieces to be part of everyday life and use.

I have always been fascinated by Art that tells a story. Therefore many of the pots I make tell a story, with many returning characters. Some of the characters you might find are tortoises, owls, ravens and birds, bears, deer, foxes, bunnies and horses all have special meaning to me and hopefully the viewer. They interact with each other, they seem to be having very full lives outside our windows, I like to think that they are a witness to a moment in time. The tortoise represents the slow moving of the earth but also the witness. If he’s in the story his shell will be showing another memory in time. Dinosaurs, and many mythical “monsters” show up in the stories as well, because who knows and why not. Who knows what the tortoise sees out there. Maybe it’s Bigfoot chopping wood. Maybe it’s just a friendship between an owl and a horse. Every pot tells a different story, I can tell you what the characters mean to me, but it’s up to the viewer to decide the story.

www.MonkeytownPottery.com

Supraner, Scott & Vicki

Hawksbill Pottery

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Hawksbill Pottery is distinguished by a colorful pallet of studio mixed glazes. These stoneware pieces are high fired to 2300 degrees. They are food safe, ovenproof and dishwasher/microwave safe. Some pieces are thrown on a potter’s wheel while others are hand built with slabs and extruded pieces. Embossments are made from stamps that are hand carved from clay, then fired and impressed into wet clay. Our glazing technique is similar to a “batik” process. Wax is painted as a resist between layers of glaze to create colorful designs and patterns. The pieces are painted free hand with a brush giving spontaneous life to each piece. We believe that this direct process infuses the object with human energy.

The ceramic wall reliefs are composed of handmade interlocking clay tiles specifically made to create each image. Expanding on traditional ideas of tile work and mosaics, the work describes a new form which is both painterly and sculptural.

www.hawksbillpottery.com

Miller, Shelley

Focal Point

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My love of bright colors and whimsical designs and has found a perfect home in the medium of polymer clay and epoxy resin sculptures. The wide variety of techniques fills my need for always wanting to try something new and different in creative arts. Each technique is a wonderfully organized chaos that leads to the final product.

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Kirk, Roger

Kirk Ceramics

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The founder of Kirk Ceramics, Roger Kirk, makes functional and decorative ceramics in his studio in Washington, D.C. He also teaches high school and adult ceramics classes in Montgomery County, MD.

Roger has been making ceramics since 2009, when he took his first ceramics class at UCLA. Many failed and successful pots later, he sells his work at markets and through his website.

Roger’s style is inspired by traditional English and Japanese pottery, but with a contemporary twist. He hopes the handmade feel, functionality, and professional finish of his ceramics will help to make people’s homes happier places to live.

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Kesler, Jonathan

Earthly Arts

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My intention is the integration of art, nature, and the ‘everyday’ life of the patron. This I attempt to accomplish via the creation of forms that may, if desired, have a broad practical functionality which so-by leads to inclusiveness with the life flow of the patron. In turn the subjective art travels with the action creating a bridge for the suggestive surface imagery to promote its theme which is, specifically, nature. Each aspect has a rebounding circular path that in its totality proffers resonance. The art feeds on itself which ‘feeds’ the patron on multiple levels. Such is my intention.

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Kennedy, Selinda

Kennedy Redware Pottery

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I am a historic redware potter since 1986. I employ historic folk art on slab technique redware pottery. I use mason stain and slip and underglazes.

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