Jorie Berman
Platter, 2021
Earthenware, stain, and glaze
11 x 3.75 inches
Courtesy of the artist.

Jorie Berman received a BFA from the University of Georgia and an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design. She currently runs her business, Biscuit Ceramics, in Tampa, Florida.

Rick Berman
Upasnis' Bowl, 2021
Clay and glaze
7 x 7 x 7 inches
Courtesy of the artist.

Rick Berman has presented 100+ workshops in the US, India, Italy, and Africa. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Macon Museum, High Museum, MOCA Ga., Kalamazoo Museum, Auburn University Museum, Hawaii Cultural Arts Museum, and the Harriett Tubman Museum as well as in the private collections of Peter Voulkos, Mehera Irani,YoYo Ma, Andres Serrano, Jane Fonda, Paul Soldner, John Portman, The Honorable John Lewis, and others. Rick earned his MFA from UGA and throughout his career owned a gallery, started the Ceramics program at Callanwolde Art Center, worked as associate editor of Clay Times Magazine, written extensively for national and international art periodicals, was on the Pace Academy arts faculty from 1997-2013, and was most recently a faculty member for UGA's Studies Abroad Program in Cortona, Italy. A Fellow and long-time friend of Hambidge.

Martha Cook
Hambidge Wood Fired Vase, 2019
Stoneware
13.5 x 5.5 x 5 inches
Courtesy of the artist.

Martha Cook is a ceramic artist. She is known for her ability to integrate texture, form, and function. Using both wheel and handbuilding techniques, she finds joy working with clay in ways that reveal its true nature. Her work is enhanced by the spontaneity of atmospheric kilns Ð including high fire reduction, soda, salt and wood. Martha is currently the Assistant to the Pottery Director and an Instructor at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center in Atlanta, Georgia. She earned a BA in Art Education/Ceramics (University of West Georgia) and a MA in Ceramics (University of Louisville), where she was awarded a scholarship and graduate assistantship. While pursuing her passion for making pottery throughout her career as an art educator, she also earned an EdS in Leadership and Administration (Lincoln Memorial University).

John Donovan
Encouraging Bunny Warrior Rattle, 2021
Pit-fired terra cotta
11 x 7 x 7 inches
Courtesy of the artist.

John Donovan has spent 45 years with his hands in clay and 25 years teaching professionally. At the young age of five, John first met clay in the studios of Stonehaus Architectural Ceramics in Pensacola, FL. John later earned his BFA from Loyola University, New Orleans and his MFA from Stephen F. Austin State University, Texas. He received an honorable mention in the 2005 World Ceramic Biennale Competition in Icheon, South Korea, and in 2011 John was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship in Craft Media from the Tennessee Arts Commission. John is represented by Zeitgeist Art Gallery in Nashville, TN and LeMieux Galleries in New Orleans, LA. Creating community through clay is a life-long pursuit that John continues at Buchanan Arts.

Rachel K. Garceau
Current #4, 2021
Porcelain
18.5 x 15 x 4 inches
Courtesy of the artist.

Krista Grecco
Nostalgia: Cat, 2020
Porcelain and wire
14 x 10 x 9 inches

BFA Alfred University, MFA The Ohio State University, Graduate Fellowship Krista Grecco is a ceramic sculptor and Professor of Foundation Studies at SCAD in Atlanta, Georgia. Her work explores ideas of companionship and the seduction of nostalgia fueled by family, friendship, heartache, and humiliation. In 2015, Grecco was invited to participate in the Parcours Céramique Carougeois biennial in Geneva, Switzerland. She was awarded a solo exhibition at Galerie Maya Guidi and conducted demonstrations at Bruckner Foundation for the Advancement of Ceramics. Examples of Grecco's work have also been featured in 500 Figures in Clay: Ceramic Artists Celebrate the Human Form, published by Lark Books as well as American Craft, New Ceramics, and Ceramics Monthly magazines. She exhibits regularly in the U.S. and Europe, with work included in numerous public and private collections in the U.S. and Europe.

Julia Knight
Spittoon, 2018
Anagama fired terra cotta
11 x 15 x 15 inches

The firing of an anagama kiln first connected me to Hambidge. After an intensive period of sculpting six life-size athletes, I wanted to explore and experiment in a new medium. An interest in porcelain brought me to a Hambidge Residency. Spending those weeks at the Hambidge Center---wandering in the woods, enjoying the camaraderie between residents at dinner, and the freedom to explore my chosen medium are all excellent reasons for my continuing support of Hambidge. I have had numerous commissions for bronze portrait statues including the six life-size athletes installed and unveiled in Cedartown, Georgia; the 9' tall Morgan Monument to Education, installed at the former African-American high school in Cartersville, Ga.; and the portrait sculpture of President Jimmy Carter at the Booth Museum of Western Art.

Michelle Laxalt
corporeal vessel (flank), 2019
Stoneware, underglaze, glaze, milk paint, matte enamel paint
14 x 9 x 4 inches
Courtesy of the artist.

Laxalt is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Atlanta. She earned a BFA from the Univ. of Nevada, Reno and an MFA as a Welch Fellow from Georgia State University in Atlanta. Through ceramics, textiles, and other sculptural media, Laxalt addresses the vulnerability we as humans share with animals and other living beings. Laxalt has shown nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions. She has completed artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center (2016) and the Hambidge Center in North Georgia (2019). Laxalt was a 2019 MINT Leap Year Fellow and concluded her fellowship with her solo exhibition Husk. Laxalt will exhibit in several upcoming group shows, including Generously Entangled at TSA in Greenville, South Carolina and The Skull Show at Sheppard Contemporary in Reno, Nevada.

Adrina Richard
Small Hamsa Basket, 2021
Ceramic
7 x 6 x 3 inches
Courtesy of the artist.

After a 35 year career in higher education I have transformed into a full-time potter. Since then I have taken 80+ workshops, experimented with different techniques, forms and methods and developed my own style. My forms are hand built and textured mainly in white stoneware. My vessels reflect a contemporary, minimalist sensibility while evoking ties to the ancient. I favor stains to highlight the textures on the surface eschewing glaze so that the form is not overpowered on the surface.

Jeff Schmuki
Tattery Pair #12, 2021
Glazed and Multi-fired Porcelain and Porcelain
11 x 16 x 7 inches
Courtesy of PlantBot Genetics.

Schmuki was raised in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, an environment of extremes that nurtured a unique relationship to the fragile landscape and respect for our limited natural resources. Concerned with a broad range of environmental stressors and wasteful practices, a wide variety of sculptural processes and operations are connected to green issues. His recent collaborative work, PlantBot Genetics, has been awarded NEA funding and Pulitzer Foundation Grants for exhibitions or programming. In addition, Jeff is the recipient of several honors, including Pollock-Krasner and Joan Mitchell Foundation Grants, State, and international awards or residencies. He holds an MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred Univ. and a BFA from Northern Arizona Univ.

Marci Mendel White
Field of Poppies Mug, 2021
Stoneware/Porcelain clay with colored slips, glazes.
5.375 x 4.5 x 3.375 inches
Courtesy of the artist.

Marci Mendel White is a ceramic artist living in Athens, Georgia with her partner and daughter. She received her BFA from the University of Georgia. Her work is porcelain or stoneware pottery thrown on the wheel, with designs drawn, pressed and carved into colored slips (sgraffito). She was a Hambidge Fellow in 2017.

Nicole Rene
Woodard Wanderer, 2021,
Ceramic, aqua resin, plaster
31 x 12 x 6 inches
Courtesy of the artist.

Nicole Rene Woodard is an interdisciplinary sculptor from southeastern Wisconsin. She recently earned a Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics from the University of Kansas in 2021. In 2017, she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin Ð Milwaukee. Nicole was awarded the Foundation Residency at Belger Crane Yard in Kansas City, MO in 2021. During 2020, she completed short term residencies at Penland School of Crafts and the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences. From June 2017-2018, she was the artist-in-residence/intern at James May Gallery in Algoma, WI. Nicole has been exhibiting nationally and has received awards for her artwork, including Best in Show for 'Self Portrait' from the Southern Miss Ceramics National in 2020, and the Brosseau Art Award for 'Hesitant' from the Spencer Museum of Art in 2021.