The Clay Studio Fast Pass

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Haven't beat the rush of class signup? Take your shot at winning free entry into any clay studio class of your choice.

No hoping there's a spot left during signups, no hassle! You can also give this class to a person of your choosing if you'd like a loved one to deepen their love for clay and ceramics!

Donated by The Clay Studio

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Sake Set by Sandra Torres

Dimensions

Sake Jar - 5.5" H x 3" D
Cups - 2" H x 1.25"D

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Enjoy a fabulous five piece Sake Set - and some sake - by artist Sandra Torres. To complete the experience, try your hand at delicious Japanese recipes from RINTARO, named one of the best cookbooks of the year by The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle.

After studying under master ceramist in Mexico City Sandra Torres' ceramic education was further augmented by traveling to China and Mexico to learn about traditional clay work and techniques. Torres produces minimal and elegant pieces, based on shapes that can come from single pieces or 2 piece molds. Torres also utilizes molds that allow for the porcelain to retain its own memory and express it during the firings. This results in noticeable warping allowing for each piece to reflect an individual character - making this set unlike any other!

RINTARO, the debut cookbook from one of San Francisco's most acclaimed restaurants, translates the experience of a Tokyo izakaya to the home kitchen. Crowd-pleasing foods like curry rice, tonkatsu, and yakitori, eaten most often at lunch counters and in home kitchens, live alongside sashimi, fresh bamboo shoots, and other dishes that are usually considered part of a more elevated Japanese cooking tradition. Through clear instruction, abundant photography, and utterly delicious recipes, RINTARO demystifies Japanese food for home cooks with over 70 recipes for rice, simmered dishes, homemade udon, and grilled foods. RINTARO shows a cross section of Japanese food that isn't usually shown in American cookbooks. The book showcases exciting but simple food that tastes both like Japan and California-not fusion food-but the food that you'd expect if the Bay Area were a region of Japan. With gorgeous photography and special design and production touches, this is a book that will live in the kitchen as well as on the coffee table.

Donated by Sandra Torres

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Bread & Butter Dish

Dimensions - 7.5" L x 4.25" H x 4.5" W

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Looking for a fun statement piece in your home? The answer can be as simple as bread and butter! This whimsical cow shaped butter dish decorated by Adelaide Paul with bright transfers of flora and fauna can add excitement and fun to any snack, meal, or just your kitchen counter!

Accompanied by fresh Amish butter and local artisan bread. To make it even better, top the bread with jams from 2015 Jam World Champion and Best Jam Maker Maison Perrotte! Jam from Maison Perrotte is made with seasonal fresh fruit that is either organic or sustainably farmed, and free of preservatives and artificial flavoring!

Everything is here for a perfect evening snack!

Adelaide Paul experimented in their time at The Clay Studio with "upscaling" pre-made forms. This butter dish is a prime example of that process. Paul received her BFA from the New York State College of Ceramics in 1993 and her MFA from Louisiana State University in 1996. She is a passionate animal rights activist and spent nine years between high school and her college education working with horses. Her five dogs and two cats, all rescued from various shelters, are a huge part of her life. Her relationships with and love for animals have profoundly impacted all aspects of her work.

Young A. Kang - Moon Couple Bowl Set

Dimensions

Large bowl: 10" L x 4.5"H x 8" W
Small bowl: 7.5"L x 4"H x 7" W

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Created by Clay Studio artist Young A. Kang in 2001, the Moon Couple are a perfect duo made for an abundance of uses. An elegant spiral design sculpted into the porcelain allows this pair to be both decorative and functional, making them a great addition to anyone's collection!

You may not be able to give yourself the world but perhaps you could gift yourself the Moon - Couple!

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Calling All Hoops Fans

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Gear up 76ers fans with this bag of swag. You will show your 76ers pride with the collection of gear for the whole family.

Included in this package:

Two baseball caps

Two water bottles - with stickers to decorate and personalize

Two 76er pins

Various Logo Shirts

• Dark Blue Adult T-Shirt - Large
• Bright Blue Adult Long-Sleeve Dry-Fit Shirt - X-Large
• Blue Adult t-Shirt - Medium
• EMBIIB Sleeveless Jersey Youth - X-Large

Donated by Philadelphia 76ers

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Susan Beiner - Bowl

Dimesions - 12" L x 4" H x 10" W

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If you've been looking for a functional accent piece for your table look no further! With a blend of delightful vibrant yellow and blue glaze this piece is an immediate eye catcher! Its unique yet sturdy form allows this piece to be both a beauty to show off and an extremely useful tool to do all of your table activities. From holding fruit to having some gorgeous flowers, or just lighting up the room with its radiance, this could be a charming piece for your home!

Susan Beiner is a ceramic artist and professor in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. Her sculptural installations expose concern about the effects on the fragile ecosystem of humans, animals, and plants, with an objective to create an ecological balance between the conflict that has arisen between nature and culture. Her most recent work displays a shift to a more sculptural attitude, concerned with making organic imagery and form more suited to today's industrial manufacturing design.

Relax and Unwind with a Rescue Spa Gift Package

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Rescue Spa Gift Package Includes a Gift Certificate for spa services and Danucera products for at-home self-care!

Rescue Spa's Philadelphia location is conveniently located in the beautiful Rittenhouse Square neighborhood. Rescue Spa is a 9,700-square-foot urban oasis featuring 15 treatment rooms for body, facial, and massage, a nail lounge, a hair salon, a brow room, and an expanded beauty and make-up boutique. Enjoy your visit to Rescue Spa, among bespoke furniture, art, and luxurious materials that create an environment that invites you to unwind.

Donated by Rescue Spa

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Royce Yoder Spouted Jar

Dimensions

Jar: 8.5" H x 3.5" D
Plate: 1" H x 6.5" D

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Enjoy this work from Pennsylvania artist Royce Yoder. Royce opened his studio in 1983 in Lederach, Pennsylvania. His extensive line of functional pottery includes bowls, mugs, cream and sugar sets, handled plates, soup tureens, canister sets, dinnerware, pitchers, vases, candle holders and more.

This piece - a spouted jar - is a form that Royce has perfected in his years of working. In a green and tan glaze pattern, this piece will easily find a place in your home. Included with this raffle are a selection of oil and vinegar to store in this jar. Like all of Royce's work, this piece is microwave and dishwasher safe and lead free.

Born in Kansas in 1954, Royce became interested in pottery during college when he took a ceramics class because it looked like "fun". This class jump started his career as a potter and he officially began making pots for a living in 1978. Royce and his wife Marci moved to Pennsylvania in the late 1970's and Royce established his studio in Lederach in 1983. After over 40 years of creating a living for himself by throwing clay, Royce is still passionate about creating, playing, and shaping new objects out of clay.

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Mimi Logothetis - Plate Set

Dimensions: 2 pieces, 9.5" diameter

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These celadon plates with surreal appliques are sure to add intrigue to your home! Imagery includes eyes, a pointing hand, and pin-up girls.

Mimi Logothetis earned her degree from the Temple University Tyler School of Art. Working primarily in porcelain, Logothetis uses symbolic imagery to create a story, joke, or surreal visual landscape. Her hand built work is constructed to show process: seams, glue, rivets, etc. or to resemble paper, speaking to the nature of preciousness and permanence versus fragility and disposability.

Donated by Nancy Scheller Hays

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Tiny Teapot

Dimensions - 3" L x 2.5" H x 3" W

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Steve Hilton started his career as a teacher with a degree in Geology. At 40 he received his Master's Degree in Ceramics, and his love of geology stayed with him. His tiny teapot is a reflection of his love of the process of ceramics and the earth. This tiny wonder is meticulously crafted and reminds us of the earth from which the clay was dug. If you are a fan of our popular Small Favors Show, this piece will fit right into your collection.

Steve Hilton finished his MFA in Ceramics at Arizona State University in 2005. He also holds an MS in Art Education, and a BS in Geology from Missouri State University. Steve has taught science and art at the secondary level, and 3-D design, ceramics and art education at the post-secondary levels. In the past 18 years, his work has been placed into the permanent collections of museums, universities and individuals in the United States, Slovenia, Thailand, Australia, Austria, Portugal, China, Japan, Canada, Italy, Germany, Romania and Cuba. During the same timeframe, he has been juried into numerous international and national exhibitions in conjunction with curated solo shows in the United States. Steve currently is the Fain Professor of ceramics and art education at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, TX, is a Fellow of the Council of NCECA (The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Art), and is a member of the IAC (The International Academy of Ceramics).

Donated by Steve Hilton

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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!

Works by:

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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Good Morning!

Dimensions - 4.4" H x 4" D

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Start your day off with this gorgeous cream and sugar set complemented by rich Gryphon coffee. The Gryphon Cafe is a loved hub for gathering and grabbing a great cup of coffee in our community. The soft blue coloring and minimal design of the cream and sugar vessels make them a perfect fit in anyone's home.

Almost everything you need is here to start your morning right, all that's missing is a mug!

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