Don Clarke
Don Clarke
Strictly Functional Ceramics
To make it short I’ll skip years and years of my life before pottery. Suffice to say after spending 30(ish) years working I decided to retire and realized for once I had some free time – this was an opportunity to explore. After some fits-and-starts I took a wheel-throwing class at Club Mud Ceramics, a clay-art cooperative here in Eugene. I was immediately taken by the wonderful blending of the technical (my background) and the artistic. After eight Wednesday classes in 1998 I was hooked. In the ensuing years I have taken classes at the U of O and LCC, and attended numerous workshops in an effort to develop my skills and improve the aesthetics of my craft. As my business name implies, I focus my work primarily on functional ware for the home.
You can visit me and see more of my work on the web.
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Caitlin Deane
Caitlin Deane
Urthen
Urthen is the art of Caitlin Deane, ranging from adobe sculptures to ceramic pottery. Caitlin is a lover of all earth-based crafts. Her discovery of clay and its endless possibilities opened a path for her to develop a deep reverence towards local and natural materials. Through her work, she allows clay’s transformative properties, fragility, and ephemerality to discuss impermanence and change. After receiving her BFA in Ceramics & Concentration in Curatorial Studies from MICA in 2012, she spent 7 years in the Mojave Desert pursuing an education in earth architecture & sculpture at Cal-Earth Institute and a career as a production potter with MazAmar Art Pottery. Over the last decade, Caitlin has worked as a natural building and ceramics instructor, educational coordinator, and artist-in-residence at various nonprofits, widening her impact to both urban and rural communities. She became a full time potter in 2014 through her ceramics business, Urthen, focusing on birthing custom desert-inspired functional pieces for stores, galleries, and homes. Caitlin moved to the beautiful Illinois Valley of Southern Oregon in 2019 where she currently shares her passion for the arts through curating exhibits, membership programs, and more as Managing Director at The Southern Oregon Guild of Artists & Artisans.
Contact:
Phone: 215-378-0891
Email: info@urthenware.com
Website: https://www.uthenware.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/
Facebook: https://www.
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Bernadette “Bernie” DeLallo
Bernadette “Bernie” DeLallo
I have been involved with pottery since the early 1990’s with an emphasis on wheel thrown pieces. Currently I am focusing on Sgraffito. Images from nature are my inspiration and my one of a kind pieces are not only decorative but functional and suitable for the table.
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Contact: 541-936-4034
Claire and Bill Delffs
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Claire and Bill Delffs
Moonfire Pottery
Claire Established Moonfire Pottery in 1980. Claire and Bill met in 1988 and soon after, Bill joined Claire to make what Moonfire Pottery is today. Moonfire Pottery is a creative process always moving forward in design, form and function. Our functional pottery includes platters, assorted bowls, casseroles, dishes, mugs, cat dishes and more.
We live and make our pottery in Eugene, Oregon. We can be found at Eugene’s Saturday Market and Holiday Market. Our work is also found in gift shops, galleries, art shows and on online.
For our current list of galleries and shows please click here.
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Alice DeLisle
Alice DeLisle
Island Textures
As a clay artist, I am inspired and frequently surprised by clay’s versatility. I enjoy making use of texture, contrast, color and multiple elements to make forms from teapots to birdhouses that are esthetically pleasing and somewhat humorous. I frequently incorporate some reference to human form or movement. At other times, I simply enjoy the technical challenges of constructing a difficult form. Sometimes my art stops just short of kitsch, sometimes not, and it frequently leaves the observer wondering if the object is really made of clay.
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IslandTexturesAliceDeLisle/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/islandtextures/
Etsy online store: https://www.etsy.com/shop/IslandTextures
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Penelope Dews
Penelope Dews
Ceramic Sculptor and Teacher
Teaching for over 25 years in the Rogue Valley
Wheel Throwing, Hand Building, Sculpture, & Surface Design Techniques
No experience necessary. Please go to Bloom Pottery’s website for
a full list of classes. bloompotterysf.com
Location:
Bloom Pottery
300 E. Hersey St. #7
Ashland, OR 97520
541-708-2006
Contact:
Email | Phone: 541-535-1128
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Tea Thanhbinh Duong
Tea Thanhbinh Duong
Junction City, OR
Tea came from Vietnam as a child and has worked as a potter in Europe, as well as in Australia and New Zealand. He uses a porcelain clay body and fires his pieces in a high fire gas kiln or in a woodfire kiln. Tea mixes his own glazes and loves to discover new forms, techniques and to push the clay as far as it will take him.
Contact
Phone: 541-510-2334
Nina Fernstrom-Duong
Nina Fernstrom-Duong
Raku Fish
Nina came to Oregon from Sweden and she loves to create funny personalities and characters in the pottery fish. They are hand thrown on a pottery wheel and Raku fired. Because of the opportunity for variation in Raku pottery, each personally signed ceramic fish ornament is unique.
You can find Nina’s fish in select galleries across the US.
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Ted Ernst
Ted Ernst
Ted Ernst Pottery
My functional and decorative stoneware and porcelain forms are influenced by southwestern Native American and Japanese folk pottery traditions. I am captivated by the unique surfaces and earthy colors arising from the wood-fire and salt-glaze processes. To produce the wood-fire pieces I combine strong forms and quiet surfaces enriched by the atmosphere in the anagama kiln. I strive to create pieces with a subtle serene beauty. My salt glazed pottery use the salt added during the firing to melt, mix and blend the layers of slip, oxides and wood ash to create bold, flowing surfaces.
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