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  • Clay Art Center Celebrates at Annual Benefit

    For nearly a lifetime, Clay Art Center in Port Chester, New York has promoted the benefits of art education through the hands-on medium of clay. Each fall, since 2007, students, instructors, administrators, board members, and contributors pause to celebrate the history and accomplishments of this eminent arts organization at its annual benefit. 

  • AMACO’s Diana Faris Presents Glazing Workshop at CSC

    AMACO Director of Educational Outreach Diana Fariswill be at Ceramic Supply Chicago on Saturday, September 14 to offer guidance and instruction in the use of glazes, an area that she says is often overlooked in ceramic education.  Ceramic artists from the Chicago area will be able to spend the day learning and experimenting with this noted ceramic expert.

  • Mayco Glaze Expert Todd Hickerson to Present Workshop

    Chicagoland potters will have an opportunity to expand their knowledge of glazes on Saturday, August 10 at Ceramic Supply Chicago’s Saturday workshop series.  Mayco’s Todd Hickerson will offer a hands-on workshop featuring Mayco’s new cratered Magma and Stoneware Crystal glazes, among others.

  • Eminent Potter Tom Turner to Visit CSC

     Ceramic artist Tom Turner will bring his decades of experience to Ceramic Supply Chicago on Saturday, June 8.  Visitors will have a rare opportunity of talk with this eminent artist about his lifetime of making, teaching, and selling ceramic art.

  • Chicago Potter and Teacher Levi Yastrow Comes to CSC’s Second Saturdays

    Chicago artist Levi Yastrow is a believer in the collaborative aspect of teaching. Ceramic Supply Chicago will welcome him on May 11 at our Saturday Visiting Artist Series, where he will offer a day-long workshop featuring hands-on throwing and decorating along with discussion and sharing that he says helps to “build the community of potters.”

  • The Power of Community: Ryan J. Greenheck Brings his Pottery Invitational to Pittsburgh

    Fresh out of graduate school, with his MFA from SUNY Alfred, young potter Ryan J. Greenheck moved to Philadelphia in 2004, looking to set up a studio and get to work.  He thought he might do some teaching in addition to his own creative work.  He couldn’t imagine how his world would expand over the next fifteen years, on a path that introduced him to numerous artists, educators, and promoters - a community that he has been instrumental in forming and that has redefined his idea of what it means to be a practicing artist.

  • The Power of Community: Ryan J. Greenheck Brings his Pottery Invitational to Pittsburgh

    Fresh out of graduate school, with his MFA from SUNY Alfred, young potter Ryan J. Greenheck moved to Philadelphia in 2004, looking to set up a studio and get to work.  He thought he might do some teaching in addition to his own creative work.  He couldn’t imagine how his world would expand over the next fifteen years, on a path that introduced him to numerous artists, educators, and promoters - a community that he has been instrumental in forming and that has redefined his idea of what it means to be a practicing artist.

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  • February 9: CSC’s Local Artist Series Welcomes Liz McCarthy

    In Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, a community of ceramic artists and students are exploring with both hands and minds at Liz McCarthy’s GnarWare Workshop.  One of Chicago’s Breakout Artists for 2017, McCarthy’s brings together seekers and creators who want to pull apart the question of meaning as they cast aside inhibitions and push the boundaries of the clay form.

  • January’s Local Artist Series Presents Jonathan Pacheco

    Behind every artist is a continuum of experiences that build upon each other to create the distinctive creative signature that makes that artist unique.  For Chicago ceramic artist Jonathan Pacheco, those experiences are building blocks, manifested in material, process, and concept.  “I see the growth of self as a layering process over time,” he explains, “and I try to translate that into an environment expressed in clay.”  This Chicago artist and teacher strives to communicate the nature of the human condition in his work.

  • Gabe Tetrev a presenter at CSC’s Local Artist Series

    It is a rare but wonderful thing when a young person knows with certainty his vocational path, but even more so when the varied circumstances of life line up perfectly to nourish and support him toward that goal.  For Gabe Tetrev, life in Oak Park, Illinois set the stage for this accomplished young potter, barely into his 20s and already the owner of a storefront studio, GPTetrev Pottery on S. Oak...

  • Gabe Tetrev to present at CSC’s Local Artist Series

    It is a rare but wonderful thing when a young person knows with certainty his vocational path, but even more so when the varied circumstances of life line up perfectly to nourish and support him toward that goal.  For Gabe Tetrev, life in Oak Park, Illinois set the stage for this accomplished young potter, barely into his 20s and already the owner of a storefront studio, GPTetrev Pottery on S. Oak Park Avenue.

  • Ceramic Supply Chicago Welcomes Dan Merkel

    Customers stopping by Ceramic Supply Chicago recently may have noticed a new face and a helping hand in the shop.  Chicago native Dan Merkel joined the staff this past July and has been busy making connections with local schools and artists in addition to learning the details of the retail business.