www.sample.haus, @sample.haus

Diana Adams, founder of SampleHAUS. She started her ceramic journey at Cal State Dominguez Hills in 2005, and is now a full-time potter working in Long Beach, California. Her work is eclectic, graphic, and colorful; finding inspiration in African tribal markings, and color/geometric nods from the Bauhaus movement. She has had opportunities to work with Tia Mowry x Etsy in a home line collaboration, sells her work on West Elm online store, and thrives to build the black ceramic community on social media.

www.rosembarron.com, @rosembarron

MA (Photography Concentration) from Georgia State University, and her BFA in Graphic Design from the University of Georgia. Her art work has been exhibited in several solo exhibitions across the Southeast including Atlanta and Huntsville, as well as internationally at the Espacio Común in Panama City, Panama. Rose has shown in many group exhibitions across the nation including the Athens Center for Contemporary Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, The Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, Whitespace Gallery, Art on The Beltline, Poem 88 gallery, Fe Gallery in Pittsburgh, Coloriad Galeria de Arte in Lisbon, Portugal, Georgia State Univerrsity, the Art Center in Xi'an, China, and Umbrella Gallery in New York City. Her films have been in numerous film festivals throughout the United States. Collections of her work include the Four Seasons in Morocco, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Fulton County Arts and Culture fine arts acquisitions Program, the Marriott Courtyard in Nashville, the March of Dimes Corporate Office Collection, and the APG Collectors Portfolio. She is a past resident with The Creatives Project and has completed numerous artist residencies including Taller Portobelo, the Hambidge Center for the Arts and Science, University of North Texas, The Rensing Center and Straw Hat

www.BiscuitCeramics.com, @biscuitbermanceramics

Jorie Berman earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics from the University of Georgia in 2002 and a Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2005. She loves clay because of its inherent ability to record the actions of its maker and its environment. Jorie handbuilds sculpture and pottery and enjoys experimenting with low-fire through high-fire processes. Memory and impressions are major themes in her work, which makes clay her ideal medium. Jorie moved from Athens, Georgia to Tampa at the end of 2018 and set up a home studio. She exhibits and sells her work nationally in galleries, juried shows, and through her online shop, BiscuitCeramics.com. Jorie is passionate about people living with art in their homes and works every day to make that dream a reality.

www.rickbermanceramics.com

Rick Berman has been a potter for forty-three years. He earned his MFA in Ceramics from the Universtiy of Georgia in 1973 and served as founder and director of the ceramics program at Callanwolde Art Center in Atlanta from 1973-1980. After a nine month Artist in Residency with the South Carolina Arts Commission he and his wife Jennifer opened Berman Gallery (1981-1997). Rick has taught at numerous schools including Penland, Arrowmont, John C. Campbell Folk Scool, The Hambidge Center, Brookfield Craft Center, The University of Georgia, Georgia State University, North Georgia College, West Georgia College, The Everson Museum, The Universty of Hawaii, Emory Universtiy, The Arusha School in Tanzania, Africa, the Pune Ceramics Center in Poona, India, and The University of Kentucky to name a few.

www.johnniebessart.com, @johnniebessart

Johnnie Bess is a D.C. based, multi-media artist who specializes in ceramic sculpture and portraiture. After receiving his BFA in painting and photography from Howard University in 2009, Bess began to teach Visual Art in Washington D.C. public schools. In 2011 the artist settled his family in Miami, Florida, where he has been teaching and showing work ever since. In 2016, inspired by pre-Columbian pottery encountered with elders in travels to Guasca, Columbia and joyful memories of insight gained via mentors at Howard, Bess reacquainted himself with clay and hasn't looked back since, incorporating ceramics widely into his own curriculum and steadily more extensively in his exhibition work. Bess uses his paintings and ceramic work to question and affirm our collective identities, our roots. As a military "brat" who moved around every few years as a kid, the artist has developed a keen sensitivity to an ever nagging question... "Where you from?" In 2019 Bess was awarded the Oolite Arts, Teacher's Travel grant to return to Iwakuni, Japan, where he lived in his childhood, to learn the city's 400-year-old style of traditional ceramics pottery known as Hagi ware. For Bess, art serves as a means to explore and elucidate compartmentalized areas of his own spirit, exploring veiled nature/nurture aspects of the psyche to make them whole again, free and spontaneous, mirroring the collective evolution he envisions for all children of the African Diaspora.

www.rebeccajbuglio.com @rebuglio

Rebecca Buglio was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She is an alum of the Rhode Island School of Design with an MFA in Ceramics ('16) and an alum of Berry College where she obtained her BA in art with concentrations in K-12 art education and studio art, ceramics ('13). She enjoys teaching children and adult ceramic and broom-making courses that use a variety of techniques while exploring nature for inspiration. Rebecca frequents art markets around East Tennessee selling her art as owner of Dust to Dust Studio. She has shown in a number of galleries across the United States and was a Hambidge Fellow in 2021. Rebecca currently helps run and lives at Rising Moons Farms in Philadelphia, TN with her fiance. She works full time at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts as the Director of Local and Regional Programs.

www.corinnacowles.com, @corinna.cowles.clay

Corinna Cowles is a first-generation college graduate who followed a traditional academic fine arts track, currently holding a BFA and MFA in painting and studio arts from Columbia College Chicago and the Tyler School of Art respectively. She is continuing her education through dialogue, self-determined projects, and skill exchange via teaching, a professional ceramics practice, and artists' residencies. Corinna's work has garnered awards, scholarships, grants, fellowships, and the interest of private collectors since the beginning of her academic career. Among the most personally valued of these honors are the special places her paintings and ceramic pieces hold in the homes of her friends, artistic colleagues, and mentors.

www.isabelldaniel.com, @isabelldaniel3391

Isabell Daniel is a ceramic artist and educator living in Farmington, Georgia. Her work has ranged from functional pottery, to conceptual installation art, to its current incarnation in ceramic and mixed-media figurative sculpture and expressive cups. She received her BFA from Alfred University's College of Ceramics in New York, and her MFA from the University of Georgia. She lived in Japan for two years, exploring the contemporary as well as historical world of Japanese ceramics and folk arts, and later returned a number of times to lead a study abroad program for ceramics students with the University of Georgia. In addition to teaching in various community art centers, she has taught at several colleges and universities, most recently at the University of North Georgia, where she was a faculty member for ten years. Her ceramic work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. When she is not working in her studio, she feels most at home hiking in the mountains and forests of the southeastern US.

www.isabelldaniel.com, @isabelldaniel3391

Isabell Daniel is a ceramic artist and educator living in Farmington, Georgia. Her work has ranged from functional pottery, to conceptual installation art, to its current incarnation in ceramic and mixed-media figurative sculpture and expressive cups. She received her BFA from Alfred University's College of Ceramics in New York, and her MFA from the University of Georgia. She lived in Japan for two years, exploring the contemporary as well as historical world of Japanese ceramics and folk arts, and later returned a number of times to lead a study abroad program for ceramics students with the University of Georgia. In addition to teaching in various community art centers, she has taught at several colleges and universities, most recently at the University of North Georgia, where she was a faculty member for ten years. Her ceramic work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. When she is not working in her studio, she feels most at home hiking in the mountains and forests of the southeastern US.

www.Thaddeuserdahl.com, @tjerdahl

Thaddeus Erdahl has been creating and teaching art for over 25 years, working predominantly with the human figure sculpted in clay. He was born and raised in the small midwestern town of La Porte City, Iowa. His art and background in education started at the University of Northern Iowa where he received his BA in Art Education and a BFA in Ceramics. Thaddeus went on to receive his MFA in Ceramics from the University of Florida where he was a University of Florida Alumni Fellowship recipient during his three years of graduate study, from 2006-2009. He was selected as a 2010 Artist In Resident at the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts and he was a recipient of the American Craft Council Emerging Voice in Craft Award in 2015. Currently he is a devoted studio artist, teaches workshops across the country and is showing work nationally and internationally. Along with his many creative journeys in life Thaddeus is also the head roaster and owner of ZAGGS Coffee a boutique coffee roasting company in Clarkesville GA. One of its missions is to help bring art to students through a scholarship program at national arts and crafts centers.

www.kristagrecco.com, @kristagrecco

Krista Grecco is a full-time sculptor working in porcelain. She can be found outside most mornings, homeschooling her son among the pine trees and ferns around Atlanta, Georgia. Together they marvel at mushrooms and classify caterpillars while they pick up and recycle an array of interesting garbage. Drawing influence from nature, Art Deco, and vintage toys, Krista imbues her work with emotion and saturated color. Grecco earned her B.F.A. from Alfred University in Alfred, NY, and her M.F.A. from The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. She held the title of Professor of Foundation Studies at Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta for 13 years before shifting to a full-time studio practice in 2022. Public and private collections include Ariana Museum of Ceramics and Glass in Geneva, Switzerland, Emory Decatur Hospital in Decatur, GA, and Orlando International Airport (Delta Airlines) in Orlando, Fl. Her work and process have been featured in 500 Figures in Clay: Ceramic Artists Celebrate the Human Form (Lark Books), American Craft, New Ceramics, Ceramics Monthly, and Ceramics: TECHNICAL magazines.

www.hawkceramics.com, @Hawk.Nest

Danielle Hawk was born in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2016 Hawk received bachelor degrees in Art Education and General Fine Arts. She currently teaches ceramics for Baltimore County Public Schools and Towson University. In 2022 Hawk received her MFA in Studio Arts with a concentration in ceramics from Towson University. She has participated in group and solo exhibitions nationwide and was recently published in Studio Potter.

www.thesignatureshop.com, @signature_atl

Maggie Jaszczak is a potter and mixed media artist from Ontario, Canada. After completing her undergraduate studies at Kootenay School of the Arts in Nelson, BC and Alberta College of Art + Design in Calgary, AB she received her MFA in Ceramics from the University of Minnesota in 2013. She has participated in ceramic residency programs at the Yingge Ceramics Museum in New Taipei City, Taiwan, the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT, the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach, FL, Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, CO, Medalta Potteries in Medicine Hat, AB, and Penland School of Craft, Penland NC.

www.thesignatureshop.com, @signature_atl

Maggie Jaszczak is a potter and mixed media artist from Ontario, Canada. After completing her undergraduate studies at Kootenay School of the Arts in Nelson, BC and Alberta College of Art + Design in Calgary, AB she received her MFA in Ceramics from the University of Minnesota in 2013. She has participated in ceramic residency programs at the Yingge Ceramics Museum in New Taipei City, Taiwan, the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT, the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach, FL, Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, CO, Medalta Potteries in Medicine Hat, AB, and Penland School of Craft, Penland NC.

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(b. 1938 - d. 2023) Born in New York City, Kempler received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Brandeis University. She later studied architecture at Harvard University. In 1963, she moved to Atlanta with her former husband, Bernhard Kempler, and established a ceramic studio in their home. She expanded her craft at Penland School of Crafts and through extensive travel, particularly in India. Her work has been exhibited in dozens of solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally, including the Nexus Art Center (now the Atlanta Contemporary), the Swan Coach House Gallery, AIR Vallauris Gallery in France, Wheeler Seidel Gallery, American Craft Council Craft Fair and Greenwich House Gallery in New York, the Albany Museum of Art in Georgia and many galleries throughout the country. Her work is in the collections of MOCA GA, The American Craft Museum and the Museum of Art and Science in Macon, among others.

www.thesignatureshop.com, @signature_atl

My work evokes a place between the metamorphosis and the evolution of substance. I use material modified and hybrid as a metaphor for amorphous communication and the struggle for psychological interaction which is associated with circumstances. My work attempts to reveal persuasive reflection on the essence of the subconscious and its connection with objects, nature and creatures. Born: 1976 Daejeon, South Korea. Education: MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Ceramics, Chicago, IL (2015); MFA, Graduate School of Arts in Ceramics, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea (2006); BFA, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics & Glass, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea (2004)

www.thesignatureshop.com, @signature_atl

My work evokes a place between the metamorphosis and the evolution of substance. I use material modified and hybrid as a metaphor for amorphous communication and the struggle for psychological interaction which is associated with circumstances. My work attempts to reveal persuasive reflection on the essence of the subconscious and its connection with objects, nature and creatures. Born: 1976 Daejeon, South Korea. Education: MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Ceramics, Chicago, IL (2015); MFA, Graduate School of Arts in Ceramics, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea (2006); BFA, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics & Glass, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea (2004)

www.Andrewpeterking.com, @notandrewking

King will receive his MFA from the University of South Florida in Spring 2024. He has shown work with Heiress Gallery in St. Petersburg, FL, and has an upcoming solo exhibition at Redux Contemporary Art Center in Charleston, SC.

www.michellelaxalt.com, @michellelaxalt

Michelle Laxalt is a multidisciplinary artist working in ceramics, textiles, and on paper. She holds an MFA from Georgia State University and BFA from the University of Nevada, Reno (her hometown). She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. Laxalt has had recent solo exhibitions at Oats Park Art Center (Fallon, Nevada), Hi-Lo Press (Atlanta, Georgia), and whitespec (part of whitespace, Atlanta, Georgia). She was an artist-in-residence at the Hambidge Center in 2022 and 2019, and at Vermont Studio Center in 2016. Her artwork is in collections at the Center for Contemporary Art (Minsk, Belarus), Georgia State University (Atlanta), and Oats Park Art Center (Fallon, Nevada). In addition to her studio practice, Laxalt is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History and Curatorial Studies at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, where she resides.

www.andynasisseart.com

Andy Nassise received his BFA from Adams State College of Colorado and his MFA from the University of Colorado. Nassise taught at the University of Georgia as a ceramics professor and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Georgia Council for the Arts, and a research grant form the University of Georgia. His work has been exhibited at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA; Ashville Art Museum in Ashville, NC; Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, AL; and numerous other institutions throughout the United States.

www.carolrobinsongallery.net

www.jolesart.com, @john_oles

John Oles was born in Wrentham, Massachusetts, and holds a BFA in Ceramics from the University of Massachusetts (1998) and an MFA from Tulane University (2008) in New Orleans, Louisiana. John taught ceramics at Loyola University from 2008-2013. Currently, John is Associate Professor of Ceramics at Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, AL.

www.Yeshaart.com, @Yeshaart22

Yesha Panchal was born in Gujarat, India, and currently living in Suwanee, GA. She earned her BFA with a concentration in ceramics at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA in 2017. She is currently an instructor at the Hudgens Center for Art in Duluth, GA, an organizer of the Clay to Table, serves on the board of NCECA, and works from a home studio. Her article "Working Potter" and work were published in "Thoughts on Collaboration" in the June/July/August 2022 issue of Ceramics Monthly

www.adampaulek.com, @adampaulek

Adam Paulek is currently an Associate Professor of Ceramics at Longwood University in Farmville, VA. He is originally from Keosauqua, IA, and earned a B.A. with a major in art at Buena Vista University, IA, in 1999. His passion for clay led him to Asheville, NC, where he apprenticed under potter Hank Goodman for three years. Following this experience, Adam pursued graduate studies at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, earning an M.F.A. with an emphasis in ceramics. He then established and operated a clay-based art center named Mighty Mud Studios in Knoxville while simultaneously nurturing his personal work and studio development. In 2009, Adam relocated to Virginia, where he created a new studio, partially constructed from recycled steel shipping containers, and reimmersed himself in the academic community. In 2012, he was featured as the Salad Days Artist for the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Maine. In 2013, he received the "100 Cup Artist in Residence" award at the Guldaergaard International Ceramic Research Center in Skaelskor, Denmark. Adam also served as an artist in residence at Maison Des Metiers D'Art De Quebec in Quebec City. Most recently, Adam participated in the Cooking and Clay residency at the Hambidge Center.

www.davidrobinson.website, @davidrobinson1979

David Clayton Robinson grew up in the 1960's in a typical dysfunctional family in a small town on an Alluvial plain in the Mississippi Delta. On one hand, the rural south was idyllic, with woods, lakes, and open fields to explore. On the other hand, it was also a time rife with deeply entrenched racism, homophobia and the ubiquitous hand of Christianity. The contrasts and conflicts of this time and place contributed greatly to Robinson's growth as a person and artist. Largely a self-taught artist, Robinson's education was supplemented with a variety of workshops over the years including classes at Georgia State, Callanwolde, Arrowmont, and Penland. In addition to an undergraduate degree in English and French, Robinson also has a graduate degree in Instructional Technology from Georgia State University. Robinson had a solo show at {Poem88} in 2021and currently has work in Houska Gallery in St. Louis, Chauvet Arts in Nashville, and The Archie Bray Gallery in Helena, MT. Robinson currently enjoys participating in art residencies around the US and world. He has been honored with invitations to Hambidge (Georgia), The Archie Bray (Montana), Anderson Ranch (Colorado), Gaya Ceramic Arts Center (Bali, Indonesia), and Guldagergaard (Denmark).

www.facebook.com/gallery441intheheartofdillard

Www.BlueEyeBandit.com, @Helenr486

Helen Rogers Blue Eye Bandit Studio 404-784-2531 The most important thing to know about me is that I am a retired government scientist turned artist. For 27 years, I worked in the field of environmental health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. My training is in analytical chemistry and I have investigated many disease outbreaks in the US and abroad (Africa, Central and South America, Europe). Although the popular public perception of scientists is of stodgy men and women in white lab coats seriously gazing into microscopes, the truth is that the greatest discoveries are made through risk-taking and creativity. I've been driven by a passion for making things all my life, and have maintained flirtatious love affair with art. I have very little formal training in art techniques-most everything I do, I learn on the fly and infer the rest. Art involves the action of prying open the places between the dark and the light, the natural world and technology, folk traditions and modern marvels, and then finding ways to blend them together. To that end, I blend folk tales into the stories and poems I write about my pieces. I collect natural materials and found objects to blend into creatures-of the forests, of technology, of my imagination.

www.instagram.com/politicalpotter

Stephanie Rozene (she/her) b. 1980 Portland, ME; MFA in Ceramics and Craft History, NSCAD University, Halifax, NS Canada 2004; BFA, Alfred University, Alfred, NY 2002; Stephanie A. Rozene is a Professor of Art, the Wandersee Scholar in Residence (2023-24) and the ceramics program coordinator at Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY where she was recently awarded the and the Teacher Scholar Award (2020). Rozene's two research streams include the use of historical ornament and porcelain as a visual language in order to critique contemporary political rhetoric and investigation of the history of clay as a tool for cooking. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally at multiple venues including the Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, NY), The Philadelphia Clay Studio, Red Star Studios (Kansas City, MO), Harvard Ceramics, (Boston, MA), SOFA Chicago and VIA Vallauris (France) and has completed residencies at the International Ceramics Studio (Kecskemet, HU) VIA Vallauris (Vallauris, FR), Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts (Maine) and The Hambidge Center (Georgia). Her work was recently included in the National Council for the Education for Ceramic Arts Annual exhibition, I Contain Multitudes at the Weston Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio. Rozene serves on the board of trustees at Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, ME. She is dedicated to the advancement and development of the field of Craft History and Theory.

www.katerusek.com, @thekaterusek

Kate Rusek is a sculptor and textile artist who splits her time between New York City and the Pacific NorthWest. Influenced by man-made environmental catastrophes, emotional landscapes, and ecological systems, she assembles highly tactile artworks transmuting these themes into abundant maximalism. Selected exhibitions include Spring Break Art Fair, Socrates Sculpture Park,Mizuma, Kips, and Wada (NYC), XO at The Colosseum (Seattle), Site Brooklyn, The Lowe Art Museum (Miami), The Gallery of Visual Arts at The University of Montana (Missoula), 440 Gallery (Brooklyn), and Governor's Island Art Fair (NYC) among others. They are a recipient of a Wingate Distinguished Fellowship for Innovation in Craft and the Devra Freelander Fellowship at Socrates Sculpture Park in 2023. Rusek has been awarded residencies at Socrates Sculpture Park, The Archie Bray Foundation, Chulitna Lodge, Vermont Studio Center, Vashon Island AIR, Centrum, and The Hambidge Center. Additionally, Kate Rusek is a Daytime Emmy winning designer and builder of costumes, puppets, and props for her work on Sesame Street and works extensively within the broader television and film industry.

www.vernonsmith.com

Vernon Smith received his BFA in Ceramics from University of West Georgia and studied sculpture at the Arts Students League of New York. He was a studio assistant at Coleman Clay Studio in Las Vegas for four years and completed a two-year residency at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center before starting to teach ceramics at local community art centers. He currently teaches ceramics at The Lovett School and works in his home studio in Decatur, GA.

www.house-of-tau.com, @houzz_of_tau

HOUSE of TAU is the ceramic work of K.tauches, an artist, designer, and curator based out of Atlanta, GA. Tau is designing a collection of plates to commemorate the last year that persons in America were killed in the "witch hunts" Twenty six final small name plates will be taken to Salem and Andover, Massachusetts for placement by a direct descendant of John Proctor. This hanging plate is an initial study for a what is being called a Quantum Healing project involving a local women's goddess circle in which Tau participates.

www.instagram.com/@BCWClay

I connect to minimalistic, primarily functional, forms with my ceramics. My approach is simple, unadorned, but sometimes embracing repetitive patterns. I favor a limited, primarily neutral palette - with the occasional saturated color.