Use Something Beautiful Everyday

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Take home some of the talent and beauty that fills The Clay Studio's shop with seven cups or mugs by some of our community's favorite artists. There is one for each day of the week, but it is okay to have a favorite!

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Claire Shenk Rodgers has been working in clay and teaching ceramics for over 30 years. Claire came to Philadelphia, PA as a resident artist at The Clay Studio in 1976; and continued her involvement there as an Associate Artist, exhibiting artist and board member. Her forms draw together an attraction for the volume inside the work, a painterly surface, and edge design and flow.

Nathan Willever holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics from Maine College of Art. Willever designs works for everyday use and is inspired by folk pottery traditions across the world. He tries to capture the wonderful energy that he's identities within with German, Korean, early American pots. He believes his works are complete when they are in service, bringing a sense of human connection to the user.

Influenced heavily by the architecture of her surroundings, Roberta Massuch creates functional pottery, sculpture, and works on paper. Massuch received her BFA in ceramics from Northern Illinois University and her MFA from Louisiana State University. Massuch's practice involves three separate, yet completely intertwined ways of working: ceramic sculpture, functional pottery and drawing.

Naimah Stith I have been making pottery for 25 years and teaching for over 20 years. I am acutely aware of the rim and the foot and the handle and the surface to create a unique object that lives with you every day. Utilitarian art makes me look at the form as an ergonomic object that needs to be solved for every hand. I agonize over each part of creating and find that the process of making is greatly fulfilling and frustrating. Each day brings new understanding.

Sara Gallo is an ceramic artist, she attended University of the Arts and graduated with a BFA in painting in 1997, and subsequently earned her MFA in ceramics from The Ohio State University in 2010. Gallo's abstract lettering and glazing techniques allow you to find something new within the design each time you engage with it.

Katherine Hackl established her ceramic studio in 1994, producing traditionally handcrafted pottery and tile. Her techniques and designs draw on the Arts and Crafts traditions of studio pottery. Her distinctive pottery is a collection of hand-thrown functional stoneware and porcelain forms decorated with a variety of freehand techniques. Her work brings nature indoors with images of meadows, trees, birds and berries among many other themes.

Functional pottery is Paul Eshelman's cultural attempt, through the material of clay, to bring order and human dignity to the merely physical act of consuming food and drink. As his pots are used daily, Paul's hope is that they carry measures of quiet and nourishment for body and spirit. Eshelman received a B.A. in art from the University of Puget Sound and an M.F.A. in ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design.

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