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Celebration of Clay 



Celebration of Clay 2026
Clay Speaks of Home

hosted by

New Mexico Potters & Clay Artists
and
Santa Fe Community College Visual Arts Gallery,
Santa Fe, New Mexico


Exhibit Open from March 5 to April 8, 2026

Opening Reception, March 5, 4-6 PM

Below  are the works created by our Artists for the exhibition.  Click a thumbnail for larger image and description.
All measurements are in inches, height, width, depth.

80 photo(s) Updated on: 25 Jan 2026
  • Melissa Alexander: La Vida en un Tronco; 16 X 8 X 4"; Sculpting Clay fired to Cone 6; $115; This piece is my love of nature reflected in my hand building of ceramic creations.
  • Leonard Baca: Mountains Shout For Joy: 10x8x8: Aluminum Foil Saggar, two closed forms in the set: $300: Being a ceramic artist is part of life, raising you to a higher plain. It Opens your heart...
  • Luisa Baldinger: Bowl: 5 X 14 X 13: Hand built, saggar fired: $525: A maker of containers all of my life in clay, I am intrigued by the vessel as a metaphor for peace, plenty, a sense of well-being...
  • Luisa Baldinger: Jar: 13.5x9x8: Hand built, saggar fired: $750: A maker of containers all of my life in clay, I am intrigued by the vessel as a metaphor for peace, plenty, a sense of well-being...
  • Kathy Bartlett: Untitled I: 5 1/2 h x 6 w x 6 d: Handbuilt, raku fired: $150:
  • Kathy Bartlett: Untitled II: Handbuilt, Raku Fired: 5 1/2 x 6 x 6 : Hand built, stretched clay, CK10 clay with sand: $150:
  • Dorothy Bassett: Fiesta Blooms: 8 x 5 x 5: Wheel thrown porcelain, cone 6: $125: The vibrant colors on this porcelain vase remind me of warm breezes and sunlit gardens of summer in central Texas...
  • Jorge Luis Bernal: Los Apostoles: 17x17x1.5 Inches: Clay with stains and underglazes: $550.00: Clay offers me 3-D opportunities to express through texture and color many special stories.
  • Jorge Luis Bernal: Claret Cups Cactus - Trio: 12 x 13 x 11 inches: Clay fired cone 6: $425.00: Clay offers me 3-D opportunities to express through texture and color many special stories.
  • Steve Blakely: Chalcolithic Echo: 9H x 4.75 W: The vase is wheel thrown stoneware, firing is oxidation to cone 8.5.: $385: My work is influenced by the late 1800 s Arts & Crafts Movement...
  • Steve Blakely: Tempest: 7.75 H x 6 W: The vase is wheel thrown stoneware, firing is oxidation to cone 8.5.: $385: My work is influenced by the late 1800 s Arts & Crafts Movement...
  • Karin Bloom: US Democracy 2025: 13.25 x 6.5 x 8.5: Ironstone black stoneware cone 5, handbuilt: $250: US Democracy 2025 - The United States of America. Home. A Place I Thought I Knew...
  • Jb Bryan: Birds Amongst Themselves: 14 x 14 x 1: Wild clay, tera cotta,: $100: I work primarily with wild clay. This piece is clay dug near Placitas. White slip from Galisteo dam.
  • Amy Burnham: Gaia Calls In The Universe For Support: 14x9x9: Wheel thrown Ironstone Clay, Altered with handmade elements and bisc stamps, bisc fired to cone 05, glazed...$377
  • Sheena Cameron: Equine Doll House: 9x16x5: Raku fired ceramic with gemstones and nails: 750: I make sculpture in clay and clay with mixed media
  • Sheena Cameron: Home Of Celtic Fairies: 8x11x6: Raku fired ceramic with photo printed on glass: $350.: I am best known for my ceramic and mixed media Messenger Horses. They open to reveal symbolic...
  • Barbara Campbell: Egypt Story: 18 x 12 x .5: White earthenware: NFS: I spent my life as a professional potter and my retirement doing fun sculptural work and teaching various types of clay artistry.
  • Cheryl Hoagland: Sheltered Home: 9 x 12 x 12: Clay slab built altered, three separate nesting pieces, cone 6: $100:
  • Christiane Couvert: Echoes In Blue And Ochre : 13 x 5.5 : bmix cone 6, slow cool, electric kiln: $350: Ceramic Artist from Belgium specializing in functional and artistically hand thrown ceramics,
  • Kathryne Cyman: Life Force: 2 2 x 2 (set of three saki cups): True porcelain: $200: I sense a life force that exists in all things that perhaps, is home. This is especially when I'm at the potter's
  • Kathryne Cyman: natilus: 6.5x2.5": true porcelain: NFS
  • Monica Devine: Body As Border: 17x8x6: Low fire mixed media: $195: I work in figurative ceramics and mixed media incorporating women/animals/natural world.
  • Jaymes Dudding: Heading Home: 9x9x9: Red mica clay, colored slips: $350: I am a clay artist living in Rio Rancho NM. My work always begins as a thrown form on the potter s wheel. Then I push, paddle
  • Jennifer Dunn: Bogue Sound Oyster: 4.5 x 18 x 12.5: hand built, Ann s Soda clay, high fire cone 10 reduction, treated with white slip, white underglaze, and manganese wash: NFS:
  • Adam Emery: Bem: 13x12x6: Ceramic: $400: Bem is a monster I designed
  • Michele English: Pig Inn A Poke, Or Up The Creek Without A Paddle: 4.5 x 13.5 x 7: NM Clay WH8, Cone 5-6, underglazes, matte clear glaze: $250: I began drawing, moved to print making and paper arts.
  • Jasper Eyrich-Bingham: Restless Headspace: 5x5x7: Cone 6, White Stoneware, Wheel Thrown and decorated using black underglaze.: $1000: Restless Headspace reflects a location many of us retreat to...
  • Hebe Garcia: Sisters Of The Earth: 22-3/4 x 13-1/2 x 6: Coil built with Laguna's Max Paper Clay treated with engobe, oxides, and underglaze, and fired electric to cone 3.: $4,500: Three women stride
  • Aurelia Gomez: NMH (For New Mexico Home, Homage To The Calf Canyon, Hermit's Peak Fire: 7 x 5 x 4.5: Slab Construction, Raku Clay, Raku Fired with Copper Mat Technique, Datura Pods, Ink: $100:
  • Gail Goodwin: Pools Of Exploration: 7 x 9.5 x 9.5 : Handbuilt, Raku fired to1850: $300: I have been working in the Raku tradition for about 15 years.
  • Sue Halpern: Chemical Explosion: 5.5 tall, 5 inches wide, 5 diameter: Hand built with Rraku clay the bisque fired low.: $450: I am a hand builder exploring alternative methods
  • Doug Hein: Arden: 7.5 x 6 x 3.5: Hand-built vessel fired at cone 6 (chocolate clay/Coyote glazes, copper carbonate, tape resist): $120: Doug Hein is a ceramicist and visual artist...
  • Elizabeth Hunt: Untitled: 20x18x18: Stoneware and plastic tabs: $1,600:
  • Madeline Hwang: To Be Stone I: 3.5 x 1.3 x 3.5: True porcelain, thrown on a wheel and carved with clear glaze, fired at cone 10.: $500:
  • Madeline Hwang: To Be Stone II: 4.1 x 1.4 x 4.3: True porcelain, thrown on a wheel and carved with underpainting and a shino glaze, fired at cone 10.: $500:
  • Lindsay Iliff: Birch Vessel: 14 x 5 x 4 1/2: Cone 6 Ironstone, slab constructed, mixed commercial glazes: $375: I use coil and slab building methods to grow my ironstone pieces.
  • Lindsay Iliff: Dire Beauty: 16 x 8 x 7: Cone 6 Ironstone, slab construction with underglaze & Coyote matte glaze: $375: I use coil and slab building methods to grow my ironstone pieces.
  • Lin Johnson: Sad....Oh My Country: 14 x 6 x 4: Hand built terra-cotta: NFS: This piece is in response to our current political and cultural climate. My work can be seen at Mariposa Gallery in Abq
  • Lin Johnson: Teapot: 5 3/4 x 7 x 5 1/4: Hand built: NFS: The teapot is a quintessential form and speaks of home in so many ways. Because of it s many parts, it s a challenging form to make.
  • Elaine Kidd: Incense Burner: 19x9.5x9.5 : Micaceous clay coiled: $275: Crafted from micaceous clay, my incense burner is inspired by adobe homes.
  • Timothy Knight: Basket: 9x9x6: Altered Thrown piece with added rim, Cone 6 gas reduction: NFS: Altered thrown form with texture
  • Timothy Knight: Slabcube: 9X5X6: Slab built, cone 6: NFS: Although I enjoy working on the wheel, the slower process of building with slabs allows me to take a step back and focus on one piece
  • Serit Kotowski: Transfixed: 12 x 8 x 8: Hand built, Raku fired. (Raw compressed clay base not included in sale): $850: trans alludes to passage and fixed alludes to stationary.
  • Alex Kurtz: Celestial Home: 13 x 13 x 4: sculpted and slab built of low fire clay and glazes, Iron oxide decals: $450: I am a ceramic artist whose process is informed by my time spent outdoors...
  • Morgan Loven: Bosque Night: 10 x 7 x 7: Hand built with sgrafitto: NFS: Mimolo is husband and wife team Mike and Morgan Loven. Mike formed this piece out of warm speckle buff clay
  • Jennifer A. Lowell: Climbing To Soar: 6 1/2 x 12 x 4: Handbuilt, hand painted glaze with a luster final firing: $240:
  • Janeen Maas: Home Is A Bowl: 9.5x13x16: Stoneware with underglaze fired to cone 6: $800: My recent inspiration for sculpture work is the invertebrate world as it is colorful, rich in texture and shape
  • Susan Mach: Triplex: 7x5x5: Slab built, low fire clay and glaze with photo copy transfers: $250: My work, Triplex, shows three homes not far from my Silver City , NM home.
  • Diane Macinnes: El Camino Interior 1: 17 x 13 x 3.5: Mixed Media: Earthenware Red Clay Cone 04, Collage on wood base with metal, shells, natural materials Cold Application of Inks, beeswax... $350
  • Ellen Mancini: Nesting: 11x6x6: Handbuilt w/ slab, coil and sculpted detail, fired midrange to cone 6, red iron oxide plus glaze: $100: My hand built ceramic sculpture is inspired by nature ...
  • Harmony Martinez: Fisheye: 2.25 x 6.5 x 1.5: cone 10 true porcelain, technique from Arita, Japan: $99: Fisheye is based on the eye of a great blue heron, with underglaze feathers. ...
  • Patty Martin: Desert Home: 28 x 17 x 11: Hand-built clay, Cone 6 oxidation with glaze, rusted iron spikes: $450: I wheel throw and hand build functional and sculptural pieces inspired by nature.
  • Cate McClain: Embers Beneath The Surface: 6x7x11: Slab and coil, Stoneware, Terra Siggilata, Saggar fired, Black Walnut with Guatemalan Wood Flower: $350:
  • Lisa Mceneaney: Emperor Penguin Jar: h 9 d 4: Cone 6 porcelain underglazes and glaze: $90: With climate change the ice pack of Antarctica is melting and forcing Emporer Penguins to travel farther
  • Nicole Merkens: Where Am I Going, Where Have I Been? Home Is Where The Heart Is: 29h x 11w x 6.5d: Handbuilt Clay, Glazes, wire: $1,800: Home is a reliquary you carry: memories, losses, many selves.
  • Karina Naumer: Salt Fired Vessel: 7.5 x 5.25 x 5.25: Stoneware, thrown, salt fired to cone 10: NFS: Home is the essence of our internal, creative lives, the physical spaces where we abide
  • Judy Nelson-Moore: The Long Road Home: 10 x 18 x 7: Saggar fired paper clay: $1,500: Shaped by fire, chance, and time, work explores home as refuge, endurance, and forms that turn inward and protect.
  • Judy Nelson-Moore: Holding Place: 10 x 15 x 6.5: Saggar-fired paper clay, refired with glaze at cone 06: $850: Rough outer surfaces protect a softer interior, resilience, memory, and the pull of home
  • Richard Orlando: Porcelain Coffee Bean Jar: 9 x 5.5 x 5.5: True porcelain, cone 10 reduction, hand carved: $325: I have studied the making of porcelain vessels using the Arita Method
  • Charlotte Ownby: Colors Of My Dad's Dream Car: 13.5x1.5x7: Hand built with white stoneware, carved, fired to cone 6: $225: I am a scientist turned potter. I enjoy experimenting
  • Charlotte Ownby: Footprints In The Snow: 14x7x1.5: Handbuilt with white stoneware fired to Cone 6: $325: This piece employs my preferred geometric form to depict a memory of playing in the snow
  • Andrea Pichaida: Can I Give You A Squeeze: 12h x 12w x 12,5d: Hand built, with underglazes, glaze and oxide wash. Fired to Cone 5 in oxidation: $2,600: I always aim to convey warmth and good feeling.
  • Stacie Pope Hein: Jestersaurus: 6 x 4 x 6: Pit-fired clay decorated with oxides, bone, copper, and glass beads.: $155: My pieces are called Bony Claytures
  • Stacie Pope Hein: Spiked Turtledon: 6 x 10 x 3: Mixed media: pit-fired clay, bone, copper, glass beads: $165: My sculptures are called Bony Claytures. Each one is unique.
  • Lois Olcott Price: Haven: 18 x 19 x 21: White micaceous clay coil built mounted on chamisa stump: $500: I hand build and sculpt to tell a story; inspired by NM landscape and the human form.
  • Lois Olcott Price: Scent Of Decay: 14 x 8.5 x 6: hand-built, sculpted, stoneware, underglaze transfer, Cone 6: $150: New Mexico s landscape, wildlife, and clay traditions are an ongoing inspiration.
  • Judith Richey: Rooster Plate: 8 round: Porcelain w/ Gozu decoration ^10 Reduction: $300: In Kathy Cyman s class in The Arita Method of Porcelain, I was fortunate to meet Sensei Manji Inouye
  • Jenna Ritter: Rock Steady: 5 x 6 x 3: Hand gathered local clay, hand built, burnished, with added sand and cerrillos turquoise, low fire: $525: Shaping the earth with my hands and heart I am home.
  • Jenna Ritter: Sanctum: 8 x 7 x 6: Hand gathered local clay, coil built, burnished, reduction pit fired: $750: It begins on bended knee. Then, the rhythm of my working:
  • Jim Romberg: Bateau: 14 x13 x 7: Raku: NFS: Raku fired shaped wheel form
  • Greta Ruiz: Terra Star: 2.5 x 9 x 9: Coil built, colored slips applied during the making process. Cone 10 gas fired.: $700: I am in awe of both the juicy flower and the weathered seed pod.
  • Joey Serim: Cocoon: 10x9x9: Slab and coil built, Cone6, slip monoprint with underglazes and colored slips, stains ^6: $350: I often create a cocoon for myself, filled with fun, randomness, bright
  • Mary Sharp Davis: Urn: 10x12: Glazed stoneware: NFS: Upon visiting Nara Japan in the Buddhist compound s gallery, I was inspired by the ancient bronze vessels displayed. They were like old friends
  • Mary Simmons: Shadowlands: 10x10x3: Hand built, low fire: $195: My formal education is in Geology, whose forms, fossils, bones, and patterns inform my highly-textured Clayworks. Low-fire clays
  • Claude Smith, Iii: Winter's First Thaw: 4 1/4 x4 1/4 x4 1/4: Wheel thrown, Terra Sig, Raku Saggar Fire, Oxidation Fired: $250: As a retired clay professor, I continue to explore and experiment
  • Debi Smith: Birth From The Sipapu: 9x12x9: Stoneware saggar fired: NFS: Clay creator, sculptor native to New Mexico. The Land inspires me with my processes.
  • Cirrelda Snider-Bryan: Clouds, Rain, Path Around The House: 12x14: Cone 04 fired white clay, Duncan underglazes: NFS: This piece shows symbols on our Hopi wedding rings: clouds, rain, path of life...
  • Cirrelda Snider-Bryan: Song: Abq Main Canal: 16x8x.5: Ochre slab cone 5 fired with Coyote, Amaco, Duncan underglazes: $250: Sky bright autumn day/high leaves mark my way / I walk on the road/pray...
  • Darla Graff Thompson: Incompatibility: 10x6x6: Cone 04, low-fire glaze, fired twice: $350: Incompatibility in context of Clay Speaks of Home, where one soul is born and raised is luck of the draw.
  • Sheryl Zacharia: Blushing Dawn: 18 x 17.5 x 5: Hand built cone 5 oxidation terra sigilatta and glaze: $4,000: Sheryl Zacharia is primarily a self taught artist, moved to Santa Fe 11years ago from NYC

To purchase work, contact the artist via SFCC Visual Arts Gallery Director Linda Cassel 

  Referrals or questions through the Celebration of Clay Committee.

ay 2023

First name Last name Title of Work Social Media and website address
Lee Akins Blue Bottle www.leeakins.com
Kim Alderman Egyptian Mother www.kimaldermanstudio.com
Melissa Alexander Paper Birch www.instagram.com/ucaaceramics/
Leonard Baca Spirit Dancing Soaring www.ljbceramics.com
Ekin Balcioglu Three Sisters and Their Spirit Animals www.hamam.co
Luisa Baldinger Covered Jar www.luisabaldinger.com
Carla Bassat En el camino www.instagram.com/prcarla/
Sue Baum Modern Geisha Kimono Facebook : Sue Baum
Elaine Biery The Raven's Gallery
Rebecca Browning - Yager Wood Fired Woo Blue Vessel www.instagram.com/rebeccabrowningyager/
JB Bryan Guinomi/ Kintsugi
Sheena Cameron Raven Riding - With Skull
Barbara Campbell Fila de Caballos  
Christiane Couvert Earth and Fire www.BelgianCeramics.com
Anna Bush Crews chocolate volcanic
Kathryne Cyman Touch of Moon www.instagram.com/kathrynecyman/
Sara D'Alessandro "Rhumba" www.mudwaspstudio.com
Caroline Dechert Obvara Candlesticks
JoAnne DeKeuster Tree www.enchantedcirclepottery.com
Kevin DeKeuster Untitled www.enchantedcirclepottery.com
Jan Dorris Fun with Raku www.jandorris.com
Joan Eichelberger Joy Drjoanie06@gmail.com
Adam Emery Birds in the dragon
Carla Emmert Pueblo Spirits Carla Emmert on Facebook
Hebe Garcia Earth www.instagram.com/hebe_garcia_finearts/
Erik Gellert Vistige http://www.instagram.com/erik_h_gellert/
KIm Louise Glidden Bison Vertebra & Arrowhead http://www.instagram.com/follow_the_clay/
Aurelia Gomez Duo http://www.instagram.com/aureliagomez805/
Gail Goodwin Untitled www.Jandreauart.com
Sandra Harrington Sakura www.artquesta.com
Laura Huertas Grounded www.instagram.com/laurahuertasceramics/
Lindsay Iliff Baobab Stupa http://instagram.com/yliliff7
Lin Johnson Jumble House
Elaine Kidd Mask 1 www.instagram.com/thesantafekidd/
Serit Kotowski Full Moon Over Mora, Spring 2022 www.instagram.com/seritkotowski/
Alex Kurtz Heron www.instagram.com/mudpiedesignco/
Stephanie Levy Cat Necklace www.instagram.com/cestlevy_studio/
Sarah Lovell Naked Cosmos www.southwestsunflower.com
Jennifer Lowell Cielo www.instagram.com/jlowellceramics
Janeen Maas Sing a Song janeenmaas@gmail.com
Diane MacInnes Resilience www.dianemacinnes.com
james marshall UNTITLED #98, Graphite Black www.jamesmarshallsculpture.com
Cate McClain Windswept
Nicole Merkens "She Who Understands" www.nicolemerkens.com
Sheila Miller Saphire Ash Glaze Carafe www.instagram.com/sheilamillerpottery/
Vincent Morales Samurai
Judy Nelson-Moore Open Aging www.judynelsonmoore.com
Charlotte Ownby Strong Shoulders
Amber Paz-Csibi Santa Fe Peace
Andrea Pichaida Beautiful Life www.andreapichaida.com
Brian Pottorff Cycladic Dreams
Lois Olcott Price Still My Mountain
Alma Quillian King of the Road
Cathy Rapp Touch of Sky www.cathyrappceramics.com
Abby Richardson Triangle 724A www.abbyellestyle.com
Jenna Ritter Magmatic www.jritterstudio.com
Jim Romberg Ascent www.jimromberg.com
Greta Ruiz Flame Keeper www.gretaruizceramics.com
Joey Serim Gourd bottle www.earthfireclay.com
Carolyn R Siegel Edgey! High fired porcelain bowl. www.crsiegelart.com 
Debi Smith Chaco as We Know It www.instagram.com/turquoiseskystudio/
Cirrelda Snider-Bryan Relationship with a View II - El Cerro, Ladron, Black Mesa
Michael Thornton Appaloosa www.michaelraythornton.com
Susan Voss It's My Day
Betsy Williams Map of New Mexico www.enbistudio.com
Sheryl Zacharia Pink Triangle Vessel www.sherylzacharia.com
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