John Ferraris

I am intrigued by natural shapes, textures, and colors. While I often include them in my work, I don’t feel limited by them. I try to create good forms with satisfying variations in color and texture, and I hope the joy I feel in the making is evident in the finished work.

 

 

 

Cory Marshman

Although Cory is relatively new to ceramics, he has found it during the pandemic as a mental health hobby. 

He started his ceramics career during the pandemic. It has become a place of solitude, a place of mental health and a way to find a semblance of balance. The work he produces explores balance and mental health.

Having been able to explore ceramics  and develop a ceramic career during the pandemic, has been a saving grace. I want my art to explore this idea of a safe place from the chaos, a mental health respite.

 

Fay Moyers

 

I’m a second generation potter. Mostly self taught. Focusing on human form sculptural elements and decorative surface design techniques on functional ceramic pieces.

I throw my basic forms on the wheel and then alter their shape or add several parts together with hand building techniques. Every piece is one of a kind. 

 

 

Ellie Lyle

 

 

 

My first experience with clay was in a wheel throwing course I took in college, and I was immediately hooked. After graduating from Tyler School of Art in 2015, I moved to Salisbury, NC and discovered Pottery 101. I signed up for a class and enjoyed it so much that I eventually began assisting and teaching. When I moved to Charlotte a few years later, I signed up for a wheel throwing class at Clayworks, and recently joined their team as a Studio Assistant. I love to learn about new processes and techniques, and I’m constantly inspired by the work being created by other potters in the Carolinas.

 

 

Abby Barringer

 

Abby Barringer is an up and coming ceramic artist. Her specialties include wheel thrown pottery and complex designs that she accomplishes by carving and smoothing them into her pottery. The work produced by Abby is not only functional but intricate and decorative, based on her meticulous and detailed geometric carving. Abby began throwing pottery in 2013 and found her love for geometric carving in 2015 where she began to center her work around this concept.

Abby graduated from East Carolina University, Abby graduated from East Carolina University, where she received her bachelor’s degree in fine arts.  She has been awarded the 2016 Nell Cole Graves Award in Ceramics.  Abby studied under Bobbie Thomas of Thomas Pottery through an internship with the North Carolina Pottery Center in 2016.  

Currently, Abby is a technical assistant and instructor at Clayworks, as well as an instructor at The Little Studio in Charlotte, NC.  When not making and selling pottery, you can usually find Abby either hanging out with her dog, Lavender, cooking, or gardening.

Joanna Henry

 

Originally from Florida, Joanna moved to South Carolina in 2007, where she began an education in art. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Winthrop University in 2015 and went on to intern with the Charlotte Art League and the C&H Museums of York County as well as curating exhibits with SouthEnd ARTS. Joanna is an ArtPop Street Gallery alum and has had her work shown on major billboards throughout Charlotte. Additionally, her work has been featured at multiple exhibitions, and art markets. Currently Joanna continues her practice as a studio artist and teaches pottery courses at the Village Studio and Gallery.

Maddison Graybill

 

Maddison Graybill is a Colorado native, currently making work out of Odyssey Clayworks in Asheville, NC. Maddison's aesthetic is groovy meets ostentatious. Picture disco balls, feather boas, dance  club lighting, glitter, lava lamps,  and balloons that will last a lifetime and you  have Maddison's studio. With the promise of never deflating, Maddison's current body of work is primarily made of ceramic slip-cast balloon letters.

 

 

 

Stephanie Bercht

 

Abelha Designs is a pottery business run by Stephanie Bercht, a Brazil-native making functional day-to-day ceramic objects in Charlotte, North Carolina. “Abelha” (pronounced “Ah-beh-lee-ah”) is Portuguese for “bee.” This little hard-working creature is the meaning of her mother’s name and has been a recurring theme in her life. Pottery beautifully marries form with function, yet with a careful intent that only “handmade” can bring to a day-to-day item. Each piece, no matter how seemingly ordinary, is made slowly and intentionally by Steph’s own hands, so each piece is entirely unique. Abelha Designs is a celebration of enjoying life slowly and intentionally. She hopes to inspire in others the same joy with each interaction they may have with an Abelha piece.

 

 

Charles Waddell

 

My name is Charles Alexander Waddell, of Waddell’s Vessels. I have spent most of my life in Rock Hill, Sc, as well as the coastal region of South Carolina and Georgia. I currently live in the West side of Charlotte and have been teaching pottery classes since graduating from Winthrop in 2018. My family has strong   heritage of outreach and serving others, which I carry on teaching in the community. I am a Ceramic teaching artist specializing in Sculpture and functional pottery. My curious nature oftentimes leads to mixed media experimentation including paintings, steel and wood sculpture, and collage art. My functional art focuses on ergonomically sound items highly focused on form, while my sculpture practice is abstract expressionistic representing the parallels between nature and architecture. I am especially interested in the power of nature and it’s effects on mans creation through the passing of time.