Nancy Adams

In 1970, friends invited me to join them at the Renaissance Faire in Marin County, California, telling me it was a good place to sell pottery. It was great fun and started me on my way. One thing lead to another and I started competing nationally when I began showing at the American Craft Council Show held annually at Ft. Mason in San Francisco. While there, friends suggested that I try going to the Baltimore Winter Market held every February by the same organization. That was a very big step for me but one that really launched my career. I did my first show there in 1987 and continued until 2000. That show exposed me to a sophisticated national audience and led to many other good things, including making a living doing my art. Please visit my website for my current collection of work.

My work is wheel thrown porcelain with hand sculpted fauna motifs.  Airbrushed matte glazes fired to maturity in an oxidation kiln.  Signed and dated.

My studio is open by appointment throughout the year.

Contact:

Website  |  Email | Phone: 541-890-7306

Facebook: /Nancy Y Adams Clay Artist

Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/shop/nancyadamsclayartist

Artful Home: https://www.artfulhome.com/navigate?searchTerm=Nancy+Adams

My Instagram address has changed to: https://www.instagram.com/nancyyadamsclayartist/ 

The old Instagram address of Nancy_y_adams is no longer valid.  Please update your contacts and follow me at my new address!

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Sandie Alison

My  fascination with pottery from ancient cultures and traveling the world has been my inspiration for creating “Gone Rogue Treasures”.  I use volumetric transfer to put the images that inspire me on my work. I’m originally from Walnut Creek Ca.  Now, I’m happy to be in Gold Hill, Oregon where I spend as much time as possible in my Pottery Barn.

 

Contact Sandie:

Email:  sansa31@hotmail.com  

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Ashley Ambrosio

Spring + Vine Studios

Ashley Ambrosio is a multidisciplinary artist and teacher, originally from British Columbia, Canada and the creative hands + heart behind Spring + Vine. Offering functional handmade pottery, natural soap and beginner workshops since the summer of 2010. Her distinct style is characterized by the harmonious balance she aims to achieve between form and function, with each creation being one-of-a-kind and designed to elevate the rituals of our everyday experience. Most drawn to clay in its natural state, Ashley’s work highlights the techniques of marbling, texture, sgraffito engraving and a special wood firing from time to time. 

Spring + Vine was founded in 2018 and has since evolved into a loyal group of customers, students.. and friends! With an emphasis on supporting youth based programs, self-observation, and honoring the beginner mind with meditative play, Ashley is so grateful to share the beauty of clay with our community and beyond.

Contact:

Website  |  Email | Instagram  | Facebook

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Summer Brendlinger

Kilned with Kindness

I first fell in love with clay in high school and haven’t stopped my obsession since. After graduating from SOU in 2000, I did step away from Clay to become a classroom teacher, but I have recently shifted my focus to Clay full-time. My ceramic philosophy is to create affordable functional works of art that you will use in your daily life! Enjoy looking around and I hope you see some thing you just absolutely love. Most of my work is created on the wheel but I also have a passion for hand building and texture.  I thoroughly enjoy creating art and teaching it! Please check out my Instagram, TikTock, website or Facebook for more information.

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 Gwen Childs

Wheel-thrown functional pottery has been and continues to be my strength, but currently my interests are moving towards sculptural, voluptuous shapes with a functional voice. Clay is my medium because it invites one to feel the work. I like to carve –  carving takes an essentially flat surface and makes it three-dimensional. I love developing glazes that are interesting both to the eye and to the touch. Glazes that enhance the carved lines are my specialty. I am interested in the visual form and also the feel of the pot.  I have developed glazes that are pleasant to hold as well as to see. It pleases me to see someone pick up one of my pots to feel the weight of it or to feel the curve of a sculpture. I work in stoneware and porcelain (a pure form of stoneware) clays.  As the name implies, stoneware is vitrified in the firing, turning the clay back into “stone”, through firing at 2200 degrees F. The work is hard, waterproof and durable. My life long involvement with clay began with a yearlong apprenticeship focusing on functional pottery. I have had a home studio in California, Maryland and Oregon and have shared my love of clay through teaching in community programs in Iowa, Maryland, and Oregon.

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Contact:

Email  | Phone: (541) 441-417

 Alissa Clark

Alissa Clark Clayworks

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Website | Email 

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: 541 582-8066

Julie Furrer

Mizzle Ceramics

My journey towards clay has been a long and wandering one. I’ve gone from stay-at-home motherhood, to corporate marketing jobs, to working alongside my honey on the construction sites. But now I am here, making what’s exciting to me. Taking a muddy raw substance and creating art that can be interacted with. If it gets me excited, then I want to make it. And I have years to discover the endless possibilities of clay.

I hope you enjoy what I’ve made and I will always continue to explore the muddy world of ceramics.

My work can be found on my website and at Art and Soul Gallery in Ashland Oregon.

 

Contact:

Website  |  Email

Dana Ivory Godley

Hello Sunshine

Contact:

Email | Phone: 541-218-4810

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Carole Hayne

Firesong Ceramics

I was born in Southern Oregon when trees covered most of the land. Trees have provided the inspiration for most of my artwork whether it was oil paints, watercolors, or pen and ink drawings. Now they inform my pottery.  Now and then, one can see a touch of geometric precision in a series of pieces. influenced by my study of physics and mathematics. The math and science in my background has helped in glaze formulation.

 

My future husband introduced me to pottery in 1990.  Soon I was developing glazes to set off his pottery and dabbling in creating my own artistic pieces.  Starting in 2006, I began showing and selling my own creations.  I introduce a new collection every several years.  My first successful line was the Spring Reeds which feature sprigged grasses.  This morphed into a line of modern geometric shapes that stood cubes on a vertex to make a vase.  A workshop last fall turned the cubes back on a side and into lidded boxes with inlaid patterns.  My latest series is the Madrone grove collection featuring the negative space between Madrone tree trunks.

My shop on Etsy is called Firesong Pottery.

My website and online store: firesongpottery.com

My email: carole@firesongpottery.com

I am also part of the OPA’s Showcase Show and Sale in Portland the last week in April.

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