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Maria ArellanoThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. I have been making pottery for eight years. I am inspired by what i see in my travels and cultural experiences. I love the texture of clay and making strong contrast designs while exploring new techniques. |
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Janice Arone
Janice Arone works from her studio in Charlottesville,Virginia. She also co-owns The Barnswallow Gallery where she sells her works. |
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Becky CarrThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. I first became interested in working with clay when I retired from teaching and moved to Roanoke, VA, in 2008. After learning to throw pots on the wheel, I turned to hand-building when I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis in my hands. As my hands, have improved, I now enjoy working on the wheel again, but hand building has become my passion. I love creating functional and sculptural pieces. Most of my pieces are one of a kind; rarely do I make multiples of any of my work, and I am always searching for a new challenge. Most fulfilling to me is teaching a hand building class at the Brambleton Center. This class allows me to combine my two passions, pottery, and teaching. |
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Sabrina ColesThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. My art is in the style of Della Robia it is a bas relief of Fauna and Flora on clay tiles that can be used in bathrooms, kitchens, outdoor areas and as art in the house. |
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Cole FrantzThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Cole is a Brambleton Center potter who makes pottery that is mostly functional, round and striped. Her pieces are exclusively for sale at the BRPG annual show and sale. |
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Nell J. FredericksenSugar Grove Studios(540) 365-7400 www.nellfredericksen.com The natural world, the beauty that I see in everything around me flows both consciously and subconsciously through all my designs. I love taking the raw materials and making them “move” with my hands into the shapes and textures that I picture in my mind. That, plus the play of colors on those shapes with different glazes, produces pottery that is both decorative and functional. Nell has been a professional goldsmith/jeweler and potter for more than 28years. She is an ACV Juried Master Artisan and Juried Round the Mountain Artisan. She teaches a broad slate of Metalsmithing courses for the Floyd Center for the Arts in Floyd, VA |
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Ann HessAnn Hess PotteryA pleasure to eye and hand. Designed and tested for functionI create functional pieces for dining and cooking. Popular for gifts, my stoneware advent wreath provides a base for you to add your creative touch of candles and greens to celebrate the 4 weeks before Christmas. Customers provide the best ideas. Work with me to design your set of dishes or sacramental chalice and communion set. Solar panels provide the power to my electric kiln. I formulate my glazes from naturally occurring minerals. All are lead and barium free. I have degrees in chemistry from Michigan State University (B.S.) and the University of Illinois (M.S.). I studied in the Art Department at Virginia Tech and workshops at Arrowmont School of Crafts, TN and Hood College, MD. International experiences in Korea, Japan and Great Britain inform and influence my work. I am a juried member of the Artisan Center of Virginia and a founding member of the Blue Ridge Potters Guild. |
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Josh Manning540-250-0420This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Josh Manning is a functional potter residing in Copper Hill, Virginia where his studio is located in the agrarian mountain community of Floyd County where he grew up. He has shown work nationally via juried exhibitions and invitationals, internationally in China, and intermittently taught on a university level and conducted workshops for arts organizations and colleges. |
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Hannah MartinHannah Martin has been a helicopter mechanic in the Marine Corps, a Surface Warfare Officer in the US Navy, and a theatrical stage manager in Portland, Oregon and New York City. She and her spouse currently live in Grayson County on a small homestead-style farm, where Hannah makes pottery in her basement studio.
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June Martin (aka. JD Martin)540-425-1077www.leftofcenterpottery.com My artistic talent and ability was first recognized by my High School art teacher. She encouraged me to pursue a career in an art related field. I decided on a business career instead. Armed with a business degree from Temple University, I entered the “exciting world of insurance”. I dabbled in art, mostly water color and pastels while I was working, but it was only after I retired from a successful career that I returned to my high school passion. My son gave me a gift of pottery lessons at the Fine Arts Academy in Lynchburg, VA. I fell in love with working in clay, specifically hand building and the art of creating unique shapes I continue to push the envelope, with my work evolving into more sculptural pieces of art. Creating unique, one of a kind pieces of art gives me great satisfaction, and is a pleasurable experience to share with so many. |
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Rebecca McKeeverMcKeever Pottery produces a wide variety of functional pottery pieces, from place settings, serving bowls and trays, to butter bells, berry bowls,crocks and pitchers." Sand and shells" is a special line of serving pieces that look great in any beach themed room. For those who knit or crochet, we carry many yarn bowl designs, handmade clay buttons and shawl pins. |
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Steve MitchellThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Steve Mitchell is a woodfire potter in the Winter and a Crystalline/Porcelain potter in the Summer. He dabbles in many other styles of ceramics on request but prefers to throw porcelain on a large scale. His work is for sale at the Market Gallery in Roanoke Va, and at the Museum store at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Va. |
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Jim Privitera(540) 985-8698www.stonewareclay.com Long before I started to work with clay I was a purchased many pieces from small studios and individual potters. I was always impressed with their skill at producing unique work. The gifts and collected work were attractive, functional and had character. In the late 90's I took a class in pottery and started on a journey that eventually led to Earthworks Pottery. Earthworks has two major functions: to teach classes in making pottery, and to sell the ware made at the studio. Potters seem to be a special group of people and the classes are always challenging and interesting. There is a gallery attached to the studio and it is open for browsing and sales. For more information check out the website, www.stonewareclay.com. |
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Joanne SnyderBack Room Pottery, Bedford, VA I first became interested in pottery back in the mid 1970s when I was living in Annapolis, MD. I took an adult education class for a few sessions with a friend. After a span of about 25 years, a few relocations, and raising a family, I started taking class again in Manassas, VA. In 2008, I moved to Smith Mountain Lake after retiring and didn’t get back to clay for another 2 years. I spent 5 years with Jim Privitera at Earthworks, then joined up with 2 other potters and we found space for a studio in Bedford. We are “Back Room Pottery”, located at the rear of Bell Treasures on Bridge Street in Bedford. My work is very functional, mostly wheel-thrown, with the occasional slab piece thrown in. I have been using slip to decorate many of my pieces and I like the results I am getting. Learning the kiln firing process on our own has been a challenge. Experimenting with glazes continues to be a hit or miss proposition. Pottery making is a constant learning process, but the most fun and rewarding activity I’ve ever been involved in. I am inspired by the work of other potters in the Blue Ridge Potters Guild and love hearing about their throwing and glazing techniques as well as admiring their beautiful finished work. |
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Ron Sutterer540-250-0420This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. My interest in ceramics can be traced back to graduate school in North Carolina where my wife and I would occasionally do a day trip to visit some of the traditional farm potteries such as the Cole family, Ben Owens, etc. We started collecting and giving pottery to family members. After we settled in upstate New York in an academic position, my wife developed an interest in ceramics that led to setting up a small studio in our home. Some years later I started playing in the studio and found that I enjoyed the challenge. Most of my training came through some coursework at Syracuse University, workshops, and hanging out with skilled potters. This path in my life was nurtured by moving to the artistic rich environment of Floyd, Virginia where I have received a great deal of encouragement and technical help. A particular shout out to Rick Hensley who has been a terrific friend and mentor. Having access to the gas kiln at the Jacksonville Center gave me a tool not available to many beginning potters. Over the years I have gradually put together a well equipped studio that allows me to pretty much explore anything that my imagination can generate. |
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Wendy Wrenn WerstleinThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.www.wrennpottery.com www.facebook.com/WrennPottery www.etsy.com/shop/WrennPottery I came to clay as a second vocation. For 10 years, I taught high school biology. I worked to cultivate in my students a desire to explore the world through scientific inquiry. From the mixing of glazes and composition of clays to the way forms from the natural world inspire my design, this inquiry serves me just as well in the studio. Each day, I make a conscious choice to shape clay into sensual and functional forms for others to then use and share. I'm moved by the simplicity of pottery; there is a clear purpose to a bowl, the proxy for hands cupped together holding, carrying, containing that which will nourish our bodies and our minds. I'm inspired by the way a soft stroke of the hand can lend movement to a piece of wet clay, then is transformed through firing. All of my pots are meant to be incorporated into daily life and are therefore safe for microwave, dishwasher, and oven. |
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Barbara WiseThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. I began my journey with clay in 2004. I experiment with impressions in plates and bowls. For the last few years, I have been making lamps that look like stacked rocks, raku lamps and vases. My pottery is functional and decorative. Pottery has enriched my life in many ways and has become my hobby and passion.
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