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October 09, 2018

Peter Brondz

October 09, 2018/ Deborah Schwartzkopf
Peter Brondz

Peter Brondz has been making pots in Bird Creek, Alaska since 79!

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October 09, 2018/ Deborah Schwartzkopf/
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Peter Brondz
October 09, 2018

Sarah Magar

October 09, 2018/ Deborah Schwartzkopf
Sarah Magar

Sarah Magar explores the cup and adds her patternful, vibrant narratives on their surfaces.

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October 09, 2018/ Deborah Schwartzkopf/
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Sarah Magar
August 30, 2018

Eliane Medina

August 30, 2018/ Deborah Schwartzkopf
Eliane Medina

Eliane Medina ia a local artist and instructor with a fun sense of humor that makes its way into her forms and surfaces.

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Eliane Medina
August 15, 2018

Zak Helenske

August 15, 2018/ Deborah Schwartzkopf
Zak Helenske

Zak Helenske lives in Seattle and has a studio in the Ballard neighborhood. His subtle, strong work will draw your eye.

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August 15, 2018/ Deborah Schwartzkopf/
Zak Helenske
June 24, 2018

Sam Lopez

June 24, 2018/ Deborah Schwartzkopf
Sam Lopez

Sam Lopez joins us from San Diego with painterly surfaces on functional forms.

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June 24, 2018/ Deborah Schwartzkopf/
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Sam Lopez
June 24, 2018

Kurt Anderson

June 24, 2018/ Deborah Schwartzkopf
Kurt Anderson

Kurt Anderson calls the mountains of North Carolina home. His surrealized imagery offers a story and calls you closer.

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Kurt Anderson
November 27, 2017

Rob Beishline

November 27, 2017/ Deborah Schwartzkopf
Rob Beishline

Rob Beishline's current exploration of screen printing, and image transfer techniques on clay is influenced by his interest in poetry and narrative, and by a desire to express the stories and mythology he sees in the lives of people around him.

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November 27, 2017/ Deborah Schwartzkopf/
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Rob Beishline
November 27, 2017

Cappy Thompson

November 27, 2017/ Deborah Schwartzkopf
Cappy Thompson

Cappy Thompson is an internationally recognized Seattle artist known for her mytho-poetic narratives on glass using the grisaille (or gray-tonal) painting technique.

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November 27, 2017/ Deborah Schwartzkopf/
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Cappy Thompson
November 13, 2017

Mardis Nenno

November 13, 2017/ Deborah Schwartzkopf
Mardis Nenno

Mardis Nenno is interested in form as a means to come closer to a truth that she can only sense is there. In the shapes and colors and textures of the physical world she finds a passageway, a fragment of language in which to describe what she sees and knows.

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November 13, 2017/ Deborah Schwartzkopf/
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Mardis Nenno
November 10, 2017

Lynne Hobaica

November 10, 2017/ Deborah Schwartzkopf
Lynne Hobaica

Lynne Hobaica is captures stories we live and that we will be remembered by in her work- whether they are run-of-the-mill mistakes, or working against distance and time to hold relationships together, or the joyful awkwardness of exploring new relationships.

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November 10, 2017/ Deborah Schwartzkopf/
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Lynne Hobaica
November 10, 2017

Sue Tirrell

November 10, 2017/ Deborah Schwartzkopf
Sue Tirrell

Sue Tirrell makes folkloric pottery and sculpture with a modern sensibility.

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November 10, 2017/ Deborah Schwartzkopf/
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Sue Tirrell
June 15, 2017

Canne Holladay- Seattle, WA

June 15, 2017/ Deborah Schwartzkopf
Canne Holladay- Seattle, WA

Canne draws inspiration from cell being defined as “any one of the very small parts that together form all living things.”

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April 24, 2017

Amy Simons- Seattle, WA

April 24, 2017/ Deborah Schwartzkopf
Amy Simons- Seattle, WA

Amy considers each coil like a stitch in a knitted sweater, that doesn’t stand out as an individual loop, but if broken would unravel the whole garment.

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April 24, 2017/ Deborah Schwartzkopf/
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Amy Simons
April 06, 2017

Isaac Howard- Seattle, WA

April 06, 2017/ Deborah Schwartzkopf
Isaac Howard- Seattle, WA

Isaac Howard blends the fluidity of the potter's wheel and the path of the fire with the kiln in his tableware.

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April 06, 2017/ Deborah Schwartzkopf/
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Isaac Howard
April 04, 2017

Chad Gunderson- Tacoma, WA

April 04, 2017/ Deborah Schwartzkopf
Chad Gunderson- Tacoma, WA

http://chadgundersonart.com

Chad Gunderson aims to incorporate many of the same enticing qualities that he admires in scholars’ rocks including: asymmetry, openness, texture, and a kinship to mountainous landscapes or figures.  

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April 04, 2017/ Deborah Schwartzkopf/
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Chad Gunderson
April 03, 2017

Joe Wilkinson- Seattle, WA

April 03, 2017/ Deborah Schwartzkopf
Joe Wilkinson- Seattle, WA

http://www.joewilkinsonstudio.com/

Abstractions of natural world  phenomena, from cosmic supernova to mangrove root systems, make their way into everything Joe Wilkinson creates.

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April 03, 2017/ Deborah Schwartzkopf/
Build or BUST 2017
Joe Wilkinson
April 03, 2017

Lisa Conway- Vancouver, WA

April 03, 2017/ Deborah Schwartzkopf
Lisa Conway- Vancouver, WA

http://www.lisaconway.com/

Lisa Conway abstractions beautifully engage the viewer and entice a reaction. She wants her artwork to remind us of our own bodies, whether they be blushing or sagging, ticklish, tender, erect or deflated.

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April 03, 2017/ Deborah Schwartzkopf/
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Lisa Conway
March 31, 2017

Patsy Cox- Northridge, CA

March 31, 2017/ Deborah Schwartzkopf
Patsy Cox- Northridge, CA

http://www.patsycox.com/

Patsy Cox configures multiple parts into a menagerie of shapes and color.I use forms and textures found in nature in extreme repetition to capture the constantly expanding and reconfiguring urban landscape. 

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March 31, 2017/ Deborah Schwartzkopf/
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Patsy Cox
March 31, 2017

Sam Scott- Shoreline, WA

March 31, 2017/ Deborah Schwartzkopf
Sam Scott- Shoreline, WA

http://www.samscottpottery.com/

Sam Scott chooses forms, functional or not, that are  predominantly reduced to the elemental such as cylinder, sphere, or plate. He has developed three distinct bodies of work over the years.

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Sam Scott
March 31, 2017

Marge Levy- Seattle, WA

March 31, 2017/ Deborah Schwartzkopf
Marge Levy- Seattle, WA

https://www.linkedin.com/in/marge-levy-60462123

Capturing a moment and savoring it; for Marge Levy that is the pleasures of making highly decorated vessels where edges and pattern unite.

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Marge Levy
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Rat City Studios, where we live, work, garden, and make pottery is on the traditional land of the first people of Seattle,
The Duwamish People, past and present. We are long term-visitors and honor with gratitude the land itself and the Duwamish Tribe.