Back from a week off, Anne talks with Core Clay instructors Rebecca Jogan and Beth Loudenberg about how potters can expand their tool kits wth the studio's "Beyond the Basics" classes in wheel-throwing and hand-building. Though not on the recording, Vern Lash's thoughts are also known. Also, come on into the Mason Gallery. Everything is beautiful there!
A fresh all-studio notes edition, with details on December Clay Club events and what's going on in the Mason Gallery. Please support local businesses and artists this holiday season. No one needs any more mass-produced, souless product. Why, yes, those are Anne's mugs in the mug show.
With the year-end holidays fast upon us, Mason Gallery Director Robyn Singerman walks Anne through the schedule of the trunk shows and what's coming up for 2026. Also, Anne reminds: Come and get your lovely pots from the pickup shelves.
Anne drops the good results from the Empty Bowls fundraiser by the Clay Alliance; plus a new feature, Clio's Corner, about important moments in the history of pottery.
Laura Davis has been on the DL much of a year, and her recovery has been long, slow, often painful. But she got back to the wheel last month like the boss she is, and she will be featured (with partner Joe Bohache) in this week's holiday trunk show in the Mason Gallery. Anne lets you in on who else will be styling in the window space this season.
Mostly studio notes but also the reading of a story from the New York Times last week about the first act of artistic restitution for work by enslaved people. Also: Didn't we just talk about what to throw into the reclaim buckets? You made Emily Hobart sad.
Welcome (back), Rebecca! The freshly minted BFA from the University of Cincinnati returns to the studio a fully made employee, and she talks about her journey from ballet to clay. Also, best wishes to Hannah and Luke as they prepare to marry on Halloween.
Updates on the holiday firing schedule, the parking situation around Core Clay and more. Even poor little "Clay at Our Core" got swallowed in the AWS outage.
In which Cult Pastor Laura Davis and her fact-finding team visit the Indiana Clay conference to learn what can be done to make an Ohio Clay conference a real good time. Laura interviews the organizers and participants of what a statewide gathering is a necessary component of a potter's practice. Also, Anne reminds that your pots are lonely sitting on the pickup shelves.
Robyn Singerman's vision of a members' show for October came into focus with "Enchanted Arts," and it is beguiling! Also, Anne gives a TED talk about the scraps buckets.
Core Clay's newest artist in residence, Libby Brown, shares her background (Defiance, Ohio!) and her first impressions of our happy little playground. Also, Anne gives an update on the studio kitties.
Cincinnati potter Mathew Arnold pulls in nearly 500,000 followers across his social media channels who watch his explorations of tape resist in pottery to build mazes that testify to Mathew Arnold, engineer. Also, please donate to the Frit Kitty GoFundMe.
Laura Davis reports on her road trip to East Liverpool, Ohio, home of Mason Stains, which Core Clay stocks in all the beautiful colors. Also, Anne unveils the deeper purpose to the upcoming Enchanted Arts Market and Show in the Mason Gallery.
Core Clay's three-week classes really stretch potters such as Zig Main, a studio member who took Vern Lash's pet portraits class and discovered the sculptor within. Also, Anne points out that you need not have taken Emily Hobart's jewelry-making class to appreciate a New York jeweler's collaboration with a German porcelain maker that is only 278 years old.
With the epic members' show coming up in October, we can all use a little instruction or refresher on a much-maligned task of pottery: pricing. Here to save the day are Cult Pastor Laura Davis and Mason Gallery Director Robyn McKellen to go over the steps to a fair price. They also talk about how valuable even this task can be to your progress as an artist. Also: Anne says come get your pots from the pickup shelves.
Artist in residence Hannah Bundschuh describes the work that went into her solo show in the Mason Gallery: "Inevitability." Plus, Anne says: Come get your art off the pickup shelves. Please.
As a Xavier University student, Kari Armbruster lived in the neighborhood of peace-loving Norwood, Ohio, that Core Clay now calls home. Now Kari is a Core Clay potter, and she tells "Clay at Our Core" of how her clay practice informed her decision to run this year for the Cincinnati school board. Also, Anne gets to say the word sesquicentennial. Twice.
What's coming up around Core Clay in August, and a passage from the mythologist about pottery that sounds eerily familiar.
Plus some catch up around the studio and an apology from Anne about last week.
An exit interview with Sam Jayne, who in two years at Core Clay has performed great acts of transformation to make the place a better studio for everyone. We shall miss him so much, but we wish him well on the new path ahead.