Friendly Ambush, 2025

Celia Feldberg and Ruth Easterbrook Collaboration

stoneware, slip, underglaze, and glaze

13" L x 9.62" W x 2.25" H

A delightful collaboration between two of The Clay Studio's Resident Artists, this platter features a swathe of bright, beautiful blooms in Ruth Easterbrook's signature style with friendly tigers illustrated by Celia Feldberg. The scalloped edge and raw clay visible between gaps in the foliage add visual intrigue, and the tigers are too cute to deny! Ready to hang on the wall, this piece is the perfect addition, or start, to any collection of contemporary ceramics!

Artist(s) Biography

Celia Feldberg makes illustrated pottery, teaches, and maintains an active involvement at craft schools. She earned her BFA in ceramics from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2019. Her work has been featured by The Ceramic Shop, Pottery Making Illustrated, Tales of A Red Clay Rambler and The Potters Cast. Celia was the glaze technician for Ben Carter's Complete Guide to Low-Fire Glazes for Potters and Sculptors. She has exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, Flower City Pottery Invitational, and in galleries across the country. Celia is currently based in Philadelphia where she is a long-term resident artist at The Clay Studio.

Ruth Easterbrook was born in Redwood Valley, California growing up with the hills as her playground. She graduated from Syracuse University with a BFA in ceramics in 2007. In 2014 she began focusing on her career starting with a spring concentration class at Penland School of Craft (NC) and then spending extended time at Anderson Ranch Arts Center (CO) In 2019 Ruth earned her MFA in ceramics at Alfred University. Ruth aims for her pottery to be an active participant in the coming together of people, sharing, and the enjoyment of food. She designs her works with their primary functionality in mind using a range of techniques for each piece, from hand building and throwing on the wheel to mapping out her floral motifs with glazes to create surfaces with textures movement.

Donated by Artist(s)- Celia Feldberg and Ruth Easterbrook.

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