Prior Lake, MN
2022 Booth #99B
White stoneware / thrown and altered / interior colored with slip and mason stain / cut, carved, and sanded
© Yvonne Asp-Grahn
Elaine Palmer
Minneapolis, MN
2018 booth #67A
I make wheel thrown functional ceramics. I use a white stoneware clay body and fire mid-range temperature glazes. The wares I create are influenced by Japanese Zen traditions that focus on mindful eating.
© Elaine Palmer
Deb Burckhard
Kimball, SD
2018 booth #46A/B
www.Turningleafpottery.com
I make pieces of pottery from earthenware clay and then fire the pieces to temperature. During the second firing, I take the pieces out of the kiln with long tongs and quickly lay strands of horse hair or feathers on the piece so the heat from the pottery burns the carbon into the clay body. I use several different techniques in layers to color the piece and give it texture.
© Deb Burckhard
Julia Timm
Fresh Mud Pottery
Minneapolis, MN
2018 booth #117
Being a full-time studio potter is my second career. After raising four sons I took my first clay class and at age 50. I quickly determined that I wanted to work with clay for the rest of my life. I love making beautiful and functional pieces for peoples’ homes.
I paint slabs of clay with colorful under-glazes. Over the slab I attach a thin, stencil cut sheet of clay. I draw and texture on these slabs. The form is then built. After bisque firing I apply black stain and wipe it off leaving the incised lines and texture black. A clear glaze finishes the piece.
I use various slab building techniques to construct my pieces. Over colorful slabs I applique a pierced layer of semi-porcelain clay. I do line work and incising and then bisque fire. After the bisque I cover the piece with black stain and wipe it off. A food safe clear glaze goes on and I fire the work to cone 6 in oxidation.
© Julia Timm
Peder Hegland
© Peter Heglund
Caitlin Dowling
© Caitlin Dowling
I work predominantly in stoneware, both white- and red-bodied clay, and fire in a mid-range (cone 5-6) oxidation atmosphere. I often alter the shape, surface and feel of a piece after throwing it on the wheel and use a variety of things to achieve color in my work: underglazes, colored slips, mason stains, and glazes. I also specialize in alternative firing techniques, particularly horse hair raku. First used by the Navajo Native Americans, this technique epitomizes to me the coalescing of function and artistic value while creating something lasting and cherishable. Due to the many uncontrollable variables inherent in the horsehair technique, exact replication is impossible. Thus, each piece is truly unique.
Steven Showalter
Eagan, MN
2023 Booth #70
Wheel thrown stoneware, ribbed slip design, multiple sprayed overlapping glazes
© Steven Showalter
Gregory Story
Chicago, IL
2022 Booth #15
Handbuilt, carved, and painstakingly glazed ceramic sculpture and wall sculpture. Drawing on architectural influences, fabric design & modern ceramics, these elements mix to create Modern Artifacts.
© Gregory Story
Robert Briscoe
Minneapolis, MN
2018 booth #109
My Pots are wheel/thrown,altered stoneware. Surfaces are layered crackle slips over wood/ash glazes.
©Robert Briscoe
Carter Cripe
Fired Up Studios
Shakopee, MN
http://carterraycripeart.weebly.com/
2017 booth # 13
My pottery is wheel thrown with techniques I've learned through my profession of production pottery.
My work consists of a White Clay Body called "B-Clay" along with multiple glazes, slips and stains to create multiple surface textures and visual aesthetics that create beautiful compositions in my functional pottery.
One of these is my use of Red Iron Stain on my pots. Applying this along side with the glazes creates great visual contrast and multiple textures. Not only does it look different, but it FEELS different too.
©Carter Cripe
Another example is my use of Black Slip that I use over my White Clay Body. I apply thick amounts of the Black Slip and wipe away with a sponge to create beautiful portraits of crows. Another technique I use for my pots is applying the Slip while the pot is still on the Wheel, which helps me create clean uniform patterns.
All of my work is Electric fired to either Cone 6 or Cone 10 Oxidation.
Tanya Leslie
Boonesmill, VA
2017 booth # 137
Nonfunctional Raku pottery,hand thrown and sculptured raku
© Tanya Leslie
Haley Larson
© Haley Larson
Andover, MN
2017 booth # 74B
I use a variety of techniques with clay; wheel thrown, altered and hand-built. Most of my shaping is done after the work is thrown. The clay body I use is Bclay. Each work is glazed by layering over 5 different glazes. I brush each layer on; along with the use of everyday objects to help create the sense of texture on the finished piece.
Uptown Clay
Jon Loer and Sheryl Grassie
Minneapolis, MN
2017 booth # 67D
Uptown Clay is a collaborative of 15 ceramic artists working in clay on Harriet Ave. just off the Midtown Greenway. We represent a gamut of ages, genders, and viewpoints with the shared objective of creating work in the ceramic medium. Most of us create functional ceramics, using a variety of techniques to arrive at a finished product. All of us are part time artists, who live and work in the urban neighborhood. Our work is sold selectively at a handful of shows.
For the Loring Park Art Festival we will feature the work of two artists; Jon Loer and Sheryl Grassie. Sheryl creates stoneware ceramics on the pottery wheel, while Jon’s work is primarily hand built or cast ceramics. Both of these artists has been practicing their craft for over 20 years and have not sold at the Loring Park Art Festival before. Our price points range from $5.00- $60.00. Our modestly priced work is meant to be used and enjoyed by people in their daily lives.
© Jon Loer
© Sheryl Grassie
Genevieve Loso
Genevieve Loso Pottery
Chaska, MN
2023 Booth #102
I create wheel-thrown functional pottery using primarily white stoneware. Experimenting with various forms and glazes keeps me enamored with the limitless possibilities of clay. I enjoy contrasting colors and textures within a piece. Recently, I have been inspired by building materials. I have been incorporating the patterns, textures, and repetition of tiles and flooring in my work. Sometimes this is accomplished by pressing a pattern into clay, painting, or spraying on glazes. My works have a finished quality to them; they are light, trimmed, and fired to cone 6.
© Genevieve Loso
Gregg Rasmusson
St Louis, MO
© Gregg Rasmusson
2018 booth #13
Wheel thrown pottery in which I draw patterns onto each piece, then carve the patterns into the clay. After they have been glazed and fired I fill in the carved lines with grout.
Adama Sow
Ceramicsow
Hopkins, MN
2023 Booth # 146
Adama Sow is a ceramist who originates from Senegal (West Africa). This master on the potter's wheel has been working with clay for more than twenty years now. After finishing high school and already inspired by his big brother Alpha Sow who also was a ceramist, Adama decided to go the Fine Art School of Dakar (Senegal) where he obtained his diploma in ceramics in 1987. As a rookie in the art world, Mr. Sow astonished everyone by the quality of his first exhibition at the Historic Museum of Goree in Dakar in 1989. During the next five years, he worked in Soumbedioune Ceramics and in his workshop in the capital city of Senegal. Also, he offered classes to both adults and children. In 1995, his thirst for Art took him to Germany where he attended the ceramics school in Horgrenzhausen.
© Adama Sow
Blayze Buseth
Fergus Falls, MN
2018 booth #
I use porcelain to create a variety of handmade artwork. Some of my artwork includes fine relief carving.
© Blayze Buseth
Phillip Smith
PotterSmiths
Minneapolis, MN
2017 booth #.
I create an imaginarium, a place where a user or viewer can go, to experience a different time, and, place. I create a forum for personal improvisation. Memory and imagination provide us a perspective of reality, and of the complexity of our lives. I am stimulated by an ever growing body of knowledge of man’s innate abilities and the effect of color on our emotions.
My process includes the use of stoneware and porcelain clays. My work is formed on a wheel and altered, as well as hand formed. I use slips, stains, and glaze for my color palette. I fire in a soda atmosphere to “cone 10” or 2300 F. My work is vitreous and durable.
© Phillip Smith
Paul Hofrenning
Shino pottery
Edina, MN
2017 booth # 114
I have always found comfort and enjoyment when working with my hands. When I discovered pottery in college, it became a match and I found myself being able to create work that was transpiring and satisfying. Pottery has always been what centers me. I have been drawn to Japanese and Korean pottery.
About half of my work is wheel thrown, carved and altered and the other half of my work is handbuilt textured pottery that is highly tactile.
I work with both high fire stoneware and raku. I really enjoy working with raku and am doing more and more with that process.
Upon a lot of research I started to make my own glazes and create my pieces from my own perspective with an Asian influence. Over the years I have been inspired to create work that has a strong sculptural feel to it as well as a strong tactile feel to the piece at the same time.
I try to only make work that I like myself and hopefully still find a market for my work that also enjoy what I do.
© Paul Hofrenning
Ed Brownlee
Edsware
Kalamazoo, MI
2023 Booth #2
Functional stoneware art with brightly glazed folk imagery referencing animation and art history
© Ed Brownlee