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Forty-two years ago, Danielle McDaniel walked out of a Parks and Recreation Department pottery class and embarked on a journey that would touch the lives of countless Nashville school children and residents.  With very little formal training, McDaniel combined her can-do attitude with an innate understanding of the human need to create, to develop what is today’s “The Clay Lady’s Campus” at Mid-South Ceramic...

Part of what makes Standard Clay an appealing company is the way it mirrors the arts society in its company culture of family and community.  Both Ceramic Supply Chicago and Ceramic Supply Inc. in the New York area have dedicated staff members who foster relationships with the artists who purchase their products, building a communal group with a shared purpose.  The central Pittsburgh business...

Brian Grow is a DC area potter whose long journey in teaching and creating led him to an organization that fits perfectly with his artistic vision.  The Director of Ceramics at The Art League, in Alexandria, VA, Grow says that the vitality and variety of artmaking at this august, long-standing institution matches his own thought processes.  “The rotating schedule of classes,” he explains, “not only in...

Something has been brewing in New Castle, Pennsylvania among the area’s clay artists for a few years.  At the PennOhio Clay Guild, people are talking, equipment is changing hands, ideas are percolating.  To understand this association of potters, you must try to wrap your head around two wandering pioneers named Septimus and Jen Bean.  The couple made a home in this small Northwestern Pennsylvania city...