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No Whispering Allowed!
I'm proud to be a part of the new Artstream Ceramic Library, whose mission it is to connect ordinary people with handmade pots through a lending library of cups. Cups are loaned out for 10 days and then returned with a photograph or some other piece of art to document the experience. See my pots here and some pots in action here. Love the aspect of social exchange!

Read this website in Hebrew, German and French!
Or choose from 47 other languages by using Google translator at the bottom of text heavy pages. The US leads in visitors to this site followed by Canada, the UK, Australia, Israel, Germany, France, Japan, Brazil and South Korea to round out the top ten countries who've visited my site in the past year.

YOU KNOW, YOU GOT TO LET IT GROW

I'm a studio potter and ceramic artist who works in the Hudson Valley of New York making functional, handmade pottery for use in kitchens, offices, and cars everywhere. The pots are distinctly handmade, where idiosyncrasies and imperfections are celebrated as evidence of human vulnerabilities and foibles. I believe that intuition often trumps calculated planning in making a comforting and meaningful functional pot.

My drawing mixes Japanese and American folk traditions with an appreciation for contemporary images. While I spend most of my time in the studio making pottery, I also teach workshops across the country at schools and arts organizations such as the Archie Bray Foundation, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Penland School of Crafts, Greenwich House Pottery, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Northern Clay Center and the International Ceramic Research Center. Since 2004, I've been on the board of directors of the Archie Bray Foundation.

Columbus Day Weekend
October 9-10, 2010
Join Kristen Kieffer and me at my annual studio sale in my old white country church! Way back when, Kristen and I were undergrads at Alfred together and fortunately have crossed paths multiple times in our small craft world. An excellent potter, educator, and blogger, Kristen does it all with her own panache and originality.

Make a weekend of great handmade pots, leaf-peeping and apple-picking in the Hudson Valley of New York. Lots of antiques stores, boutiques, restaurants, and hiking nearby in Rosendale, High Falls, and Stone Ridge.

Another fine collaboration with Brooklyn comics artist and illustrator, Sara Varon, featuring

VAMPIRE DOGS, CHICKEN VICTIMS, SILVER BATS AND...

SHOWERING RABBITS SCRUBBING BEHIND THE EARS IN SILVER CLAWFOOT TUBS!

This summer, Sara Varon and I teamed up for another fun round of collaborative pots. We both revisited the Jobs and Hobbies series and explored fresh ground with vampires and hygiene as our subject matter. A few of these will be available at my studio sale, while others will be posted for sale online in October. Stay tuned for more details.

Chicken and Spinach!
For this year's Hudson Valley Seed Library seed pack, I drew a chicken crowing at a handful of spinach. It will debut later this fall. Stay tuned for more details. (pictured above is last year's pack)
Keep heirloom and open-pollinated seeds alive and vital!

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