APF Ceramics by Artist
Minneapolis, MN
Clarice Allgood
Allgood's pots are meant to enrich what she calls “quiet acts of self-reliance”: They are watering cans for gardening, bowls for knitting, utensils for cooking, bookends to organize reading.
Pittsburgh, PA
Milo Berezin
Berezin illustrates his pots inside and out with translucent layers of painted and carved images of plants and animals, juxtaposed with text that may be playful, vulnerable, philosophical, or encouraging.
Meadowview, VA
Birdie Boone
Birdie Boone is a studio potter and independent ceramics educator. Her work is subtle, sensory, and expressive–made for daily use and contemplation.
Randallstown, MD
Sam Briegel
Briegal makes functional porcelain pieces inspired by clothing and the garment-making process. Each piece is infused with multiple textures and patterns from their personal wardrobe and items that hold meaning, whether because of their comfort, beauty, or the memories they evoke.
State College, PA
Wesley Brown
Brown is a ceramic artist who creates both monumental sculptures and utilitarian vessels to convey both struggle and triumph through cracked surfaces, striking silhouettes, and bold compositions.
Oklahoma City, OK
Marissa Childers
Childers’s work explores moments of connection and intimacy while celebrating femininity and craft found within domestic spaces. She is often inspired by things society deems a craft or feminine such as, quilting, sewing, and decoration.
Oxford, MS
Mike Cinelli
Cinelli seeks to create relics from a fictional future that has yet to occur. He looks to combine the Greek tradition of hero tales on pottery with modern forms of narrative, using comic books and pulp science fiction as the contemporary frame work for his imagery.
Vancouver, WA
Adrienne Eliades
Highly patterned yet abstract surfaces combine negative and positive space, transparency and color to form new meanings left open to viewer interpretation. Inspired by confetti, candy and games, Eliades' pattern designs note marks of celebration that invoke an attitude of enjoyment for the present moment.
Kalamazoo, MI
Maddie Fowler
Fowler seeks to make direct forms that allow for layers of decoration. The surfaces of the vessels they make represent a visual intersection of urban and rural built environments.
Baltimore, MD
Yoshi Fujii
"Through the search of my personal identity in the process of making objects, I project myself in the surface designs and patterns, extending my inspirations from traditional woodcut prints, textiles, and wrapping papers. I am interested in the eclectic inclusions of East/West onto utilitarian objects in celebration of nourishing containment by showing the appreciation of production practice with thoughtful designs and keen craftsmanship."
Corona de Tucson, AZ
Delvin M. Goode
Goode combines his 20 years of mixed media experience with functional pottery to create whimsical, funny, and unique works of art.
Vashon Island, WA
Ariana Heinzman
Heinzman's work represents the dueling desires of succumbing to nature and controlling it. However distressing these conflicting desires can be, the work honors the beauty of this life with joyful patterns and forms that celebrate nature and human ingenuity.
Jacksonville, FL
Stephen Heywood
Heywood's work is influenced by architectural structures including factories, silos, barns, and water towers. His vessels are often composed of many wheel-thrown and handbuilt parts and take their shape as small functional sculpture.
Highland Mills, NY
Sang Joon Park
“My intent is to express my thoughts through my vessels, which are mostly thrown on the potter’s wheel. In some of my pieces, I use traditional Korean techniques–the inhwamun stamping/inlay technique to create floral patterns, and the gwiyal slip technique to apply expressive color slips."
Helena, MT
Heesoo Lee
Heesoo Lee’s sculptural vessels are created from porcelain and, after construction, are painted with layer upon layer of underglaze. Her painting medium of pigmented clay is so light, that it often requires thirty or more layers to achieve the magnificent depth and realism for which she has become renowned.
Petaluma, CA
Forrest Lesch-Middelton
His body of work, inspired by the traditions of Middle Eastern ceramics, is comprised of functional pottery that celebrates and contrasts the history of those ancient civilizations with the contemporary global political climate and its impact in the region.
Minneapolis, MN
Ernest Miller
"I’m drawn to the interaction of the built environment subdued by the natural world, for example, weathered paint, an aging barn, or a well-used farm implement. In my process using slips and glazes, I build depth, highlight edges, and create patterns, all allowing for perceptions of depth or foreground and background."
Inglewood, CA
Kristy Moreno
"By blending elements of SoCal Latinx culture with the sugary aesthetics of late 1990s girl power and a retro-futuristic approach to fashion, I build worlds in which female protagonists express their individuality, explore the world, and thrive together."
Eureka, MN
Colleen Riley
Riley's pots celebrate the historic ceramic tradition of decorative botanical imagery by employing the patterns and textures of the Minnesota landscape—spring wildflowers, a carpet of decaying leaves in the woods, or the contours of a freshly plowed field.
Jacksonville, FL
Josh Scott
"I aim to make obvious what the pots intended use is and accent its form with a nuanced surface. I want the function of the piece to be at the forefront. The end goal is to have created something that does its job well."
Worthington, MA
Mark Shapiro
"Where will my pots end up? In the landfills with the lawnmowers and TVs and silicon chips—the giant middens of our insatiable desires? No matter. I am glad just to leave a record of my own touch in this most receptive fragile and enduring material."
Westhampton, MA
Sam Taylor
Sam Taylor is a self-described “slow potter,” making pots on his foot-powered treadle wheel and handbuilding functional forms, using local materials and firing them in his wood kiln. Pottery, art, and collaboration are the main ingredients in his life.
Bemidji, MN
Lars Voltz
"Drawing from experiences in the environment seeing exposed earth and geologic phenomenon, my vessels create relationships between human and nonhuman realms."
Seagrove, NC
Kate Waltman
Waltman's pottery forms are based on historical Greek and Minoan pottery and decorated with Art Deco inspired patterns.