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Open Studios
Welcome to the Open Studios section of Ceramic Arts Daily! If you enjoy visiting other ceramic artists' studios or going on open studio tours, you've come to the right place. The posts in this section take you inside the garages, barns, basements, lofts, closets, warehouses, and porches that serve as studios for potters and ceramic sculptors of all stripes. Think of them as open studio tours on the web! And, be sure to download your free copy of the 2010 Buyers Guide to Ceramic Supplies: A Studio Reference for Purchasing and Using Ceramic Supplies and Pottery Tools so you can find out where to get all the things you need in your studio!
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February 12, 2010
Pottery Studio Tour: Get to Know the Folks at Natchez Clay
By popular demand, today we are presenting one of our runners up in our recent Studio Tour Video Contest. This one is a tour of Natchez Clay, a teaching studio located in Natchez, Mississippi. It is full of great ideas for the studio, such as a terrific way to quickly turn a work space into a gallery space. Watch the video!
February 3, 2010
The votes are in and I'm pleased to announce that Jeri Lake and Kate Nicol-Smith are the winners in our Studio Tour Video Contest! In today's post, Jeri and Kate tell us a bit more about themselves and explain what this wheel will mean to them.
January 29, 2010
Watch our three Studio Tour Video Finalists and then vote for your favorite!
January 29, 2010
Studio Tour Video Contest: Finalist #3 - Ann Suchecki
Today, we are happy to present the third and last finalist in our Studio Tour Video Contest: Ann Suchecki of Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania. Also, the voting for the grand prize winner begins today and continues through midnight (Eastern Standard Time) Monday, February 1. Watch the video and then follow the links to the voting page.
January 27, 2010
Studio Tour Video Contest: Finalist #2 - The Cracked Potters
Today, we are happy to present the next finalists in our Studio Tour Video Contest: The Cracked Potters, a.k.a. Jeri Lake and Kate Nicol-Smith. We'll present the next finalist Friday, January 29. A link to the voting page for the grand prize winner will be posted on Friday the 29th, and voting will continue through midnight (Eastern Standard Time) Monday, February 1. We hope you enjoy these videos as much as we have! Watch Finalist 2!
January 25, 2010
Studio Tour Video Contest: Finalist #1 - Breakaway Pottery
After much difficult deliberation, we think we chose three very deserving finalists. We will present them today, Wednesday, January 27, and Friday, January 29. The voting for the grand prize winner will begin Friday the 29th and continue through midnight (Eastern Standard Time) Monday, February 1. We hope you enjoy them! Watch Finalist 1! - Jennifer Harnetty, editor.
November 30, 2009
Today, I thought I would send another shout-out about our Studio Tour Video Contest. In case you missed the first announcement, Skutt is providing a brand-new potters wheel as a prize for the potter/sculptor/amateur filmmaker who submits the most creative, fun, and informative video tour of his or her studio space. And to get you in the mood, in today's post, Erin Furimsky tells us a little about her productive basement studio.
November 16, 2009
After we posted our recent "Studio Visit" post with Jeff Campana and Patsy Cox, we received a lot of feedback asking for video tours of artists' studios. We think this is a terrific idea and to make it even more interesting, we decided to have a contest to find the best studio visit videos out there.
November 16, 2009
Lights, Camera, Action: Ceramic Arts Daily Announces Artist Studio Tour Video Contest
Today, in addition to announcing our exciting Studio Tour Video Contest, I am presenting another excerpt from Ceramics Monthly's (in-print) Studio Visit series to get you all thinking about what your video submissions might include. In this post, potter John Baumann gives us a glimpse into his studio, a "teensy" oasis in an Indiana industrial park.
November 16, 2009
My studio is located behind my house in Saratoga Springs. Both structures were built in 1892, and the studio originally served as separate living quarters. It is a very bright south-facing building, but is a pretty small space, measuring about 500 square feet, so all of my firing is done off-site. During the summer I work both inside and outside, and in winter I finish some of my fired work in the basement of the main house.
October 7, 2009
My studio is a converted horse stable, located in the Pioneer Valley at the foot of the Berkshire Mountains. My space is surrounded by gardens, chicken coops, and bee hives. It's small with big windows. The tightness forces me to be efficient with everything I do, and I'm not allowed to have anything but a bare bones outlook.
October 7, 2009
I work at home, and I was extraordinarily fortunate to find a beautiful little airplane bungalow to rent with the space for the TWO studios I really need. The "dirty" studio, where I work in wet clay and glaze, is my 13×11-foot spare bedroom on the first floor, and the "clean" studio, where I draw, keep yarn, crochet, knit, and sew, is the upstairs 12×7-foot loft area. Nearly as important are the "portable studios" of my sketchbook, digital camera, and laptop. I gratefully am able to fire work in the kilns at Washburn University (less than a mile and a half away), where I teach.
October 7, 2009
My studio is the main perk associated with my position as visiting artist in the ceramics program at the University of Louisville. The setting is urban and industrial, with the constant rumble of planes landing and trains passing by. I have a large private space (10 × 27 feet) that opens into the main ceramics studio classroom.
September 21, 2009
A Virtual Studio Tour: A Glimpse Into the Work and Lives of Two Ceramic Artists
If you're like me, and enjoy visiting other artists in there studios, you will love today's post. It comes from new series of articles in Ceramics Monthly, which can basically be thought of as studio visits in print. And you can think of today's excerpt as virtual studio visits to potter Jeff Campana's and ceramic sculptor Patsy Cox's studios.
September 10, 2009
My favorite aspect of the studio is that it is in the middle of the city hustle. It has good lighting with a view of my succulent collection, the inspiration for much of my work. However, the studio plays only a small part in my creative process. Because the majority of my current work is installation-based, it relies on the process of installing the work in a specific space. In other words, I see my work as being created in a studio without walls.
