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Celebration of Clay 2023

Inhabited Earth






Hotel Chaco, 2000 Bellamah Ave NW 

Albuquerque  New Mexico 

Exhibit was from October 6  to November 19, 2023



     

People's Choice Award - Hebe Garcia, Viajeros


The awards given are as follows:

Best in Show goes to Luisa Baldinger for her double walled vessel.

Merit Award went to Judy Nelson-Moore for her Basket of Thoughts.

Merit Award went to Brianna Rickson for her brown and gold platter.

Merit Award went to Greta Ruis for her twisting sculpture.

Arita Porcelain Award went to Richard Orlando for his red and white tea set.

Coyote Clay Color Award went to Andrea Hegeman for her red vase.


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 

65 photo(s) Updated on: 09 Oct 2023
  • Lee Akins , Textured Teapot 9.5" x 9" x 7", Coil Cone 02 slips and oxides, $300
  • Melissa Alexander, Butterfly in the Rock, 12" X 12", Ceramic with porcelain slip and carved and textured, $80
  • Sold - Melissa Alexander, Clem, 12" X 6", Hand built, carved and fired to Cone 6, $100
  • Sold - Leonard Baca, Shade of Blue, 2" x 10", Wheel thrown, Porcelain, with four spray glazes, fired to cone 6, $160
  • Luisa Baldinger, Double-walled Vessel, 14" x 7" x 5", Clay, hand built, fume fired, $650
  • Sold Karin Bergh Hall, Birds, Blooms & Sounds, 13" x 7" x 5", hand built ceramic wall hanging $ 120.00
  • Jorge Luis, Bernal Via Crisis X, 11" x 16" x 1.5" , Hand build clay with Glazes high fired, $300
  • Elaine Biery, Basking in the Sun, 10 1/2" x 8" x 2", Hand built with an acrylic wash $250
  • Elaine Biery, Standing Alone , 11.5" x 4" x 3", Hand built with an acrylic wash $175
  • Steve Blakely, Enigma, 8"x5", Wheel thrown and altered stoneware vessel fired in an electric kiln to cone 8 with the artist's proprietary glaze. $335
  • Jeff Bryan, Truth or Consequences, 11" x 11" x 1" Handbuilt, earthenware, wild clay, $100
  • Paul Clark, Sustaining Summer, Group: 2 1/2" × 12" x 12" Individual: 2 1/2" x 6" x 6", Hand Thrown, Hard Paste/True Porcelain, Arita, Japan, 2350°F, Electric Kiln, Green Dragon Glaze, $275
  • Christiane Couvert, Coffee or Tea Pot, 11” x 7 3/4" x 3 1/2”, Clay cone 10 reduction, with Turquoise Inlaid Maple Burl Lid Pull & Walnut, Lacewood, Curly Maple Teapot Handle, $520
  • Anna Bush Crews, NOR before, 20" x 7" x 6", Multiple clay bodies, mid-range fired, soda wash, $900
  • Anna Bush Crews, NOR Thick & Thin, 24" x 9" x 6", Multiple clay bodies, mid-range fired, soda wash, $900
  • SOLD - This Piece Sold, but a replacement is available. Nayeli Cuna, Anime clouds in New Mexico sky, 2 3/4" x 6 1/2" x 6 1/2", Hand thrown hard-paste/True Porcelain, Arita Porcelain Process, $195
  • Kathy Cyman, Beneath Snow, 4" × 18" × 4", Hand Thrown Hard Paste/True Porcelain, 2350°F, Nimbus Shino Glaze, Arita, Japan Porcelain Vessels Process, $1,200
  • Sara D'Alessandro, Jagat, 69" x 23" x 22", Hand built fired clay and underglazes, unique $6,000
  • Jaymes Dudding, Deer Dinner at Laguna NM, 24.5" x 17.5" x 15", Wheel-thrown Deer Head; hand-built bowls; low-fire slips and acrylics, $3,500
  • Adam Emery, CentiMorph, 16" x 5" x 18", coil, low fire, $1,000
  • Sold - Mia Gallegos, A Blush Of Spring (Set of Two) Cup 1: 1 7/8 x 2 3/4 x 1 1/4 Cup 2: 1 3/4 x 2 5/8 x 1 1/8, Hand-Thrown Hard Paste True Porcelain, Arita Japan Process, Cone 10 Electric, $85
  • Sold Hebe Garcia, Viajeros, 10-3/4" x 9" x 5-1/4", Laguna Sculptural Clay, fired to Cone 3 with oxide and glaze. $450
  • Andrea Hegeman, Blossom Vessel #1, 16.5"x 14"x 14.5", Stoneware/ Handbuilt/ Highfire Reduction/ Stains, $1,500
  • This Piece SOLD, but a replacement piece is available,
  • Sold Robert King, Untitled, 8.5" x 4", Wheel thrown. Wild clay slip, handmade engobes sourced from local materials, wood ash. Cone 6 oxidation. $200
  • Serit Kotowski, Asherah, 15" x 14 .75" x 14.75", coil, low fire soda, natural minerals, $1600
  • Serit Kotowski, Flusia, 7.5" x 9.5" x 9.5", corrugated, low fire soda, natural minerals $450
  • This Piece SOLD, but a replacement piece is available,
  • Jennifer A. Lowell, The Tiny & Mighty - Ikebana, 6" x 11" x 4", handbuilt oxidation firing, $220
  • Sold Diane MacInnes, Embodied,"19" x 6.5" x 5.5", The face revealed itself as I worked. Slips and sodium silicate created depth and texture. $350
  • Catherine, McClain, GreenWhite1, 5" x 9.5" x 6.5", slab, coil and pinch; stoneware; gloss and crawl glaze; electric firing, $325
  • Catherine McClain, Totally Tubular, 5" x 10" x 18", slab, coil and pinch; stoneware; gloss glaze; electric firing, $250
  • SOLD - This piece sold but a replacement piece is available. Lisa McEneaney, Great Blue Heron, 9" x 5" x 4.5", Cone 6 Stoneware Underglazes and Glaze, $150
  • Sheila Miller, Ceramic Toro Lantern, 24" x 11", ceramic, wheel thrown, ^10 gas fired $460
  • Sold James Moore, Saggar Fired Pot, 4.5" x 6" x 6", Thrown, then raku fired white clay $120
  • Judy Nelson-Moore, Basket of Thoughts, 22" x 13"w x 4", saggar fired paper clay and mixed media, $1800
  • Judy Nelson-Moore, Living the Good Life ?!?!, 8" x 9" x 18", Saggar fired paper clay, with fiber and clay mixed media, $1000
  • Richard Orlando, Dogwood Vase , 13"x6"x6", True Porcelain/Oxidation Fired, $750
  • Richard Orlando, Red Teapot with Cups, 8" x 7" x 5", Porcelain/Reduction Fired, $250
  • Charlotte Ownby, New Mexico Earth, 1/4" x 12.5", Flat slab of white stoneware, textured on pottery wheel, underglazes, cone 6 glazes, fired to cone 5 with 22 minute hold, $275
  • Charlotte Ownby, New Mexico Sky, 1/4 " x 12.5", Flat slab of white stoneware, textured on pottery wheel, underglazes, cone 6 glazes, fired to cone 5 with 22 minute hold, $250
  • Adam Padilla, Reminiscing Oceans, 3 1/8" x 5 3/8" x 2 1/4", True Porcelain, Cone 10 Electric, Clear Glaze with Raw Underglaze, $250
  • Andrea Pichaida, I will be a Yucca, 7.5" x 6.5" x 6.5", Hand Built and carved, with underglazes. Fired to Cone 6, $850
  • Andrea Pichaida, Night Glow, 12" x 14" x 6", Hand built and carved; with glazes, underglazes and oxide washes; fired to cone 5, $1350
  • Lois Olcott Price, Faith at Las Trampas, 9" x 10” x 1.25”, Inspired by San Jose de Gracia in las Trampas, NM. Hand built, NM Sandia, underglaze, oxides, tinted wax, cone 6, $500.
  • SOLD - Brianna Rickson, Shallow Bowl, 2 1/2” x 16” x 16”, Wheel thrown stoneware, slow cooled to 2230 degrees, oxidation fired. $275
  • SOLD - this piece has been sold a replacement pieces is available, Jenna Ritter, Bud Vase, 3.5" x 4" x 2", hand built, raku, $85
  • Jenna Ritter, Fire & Earth, 5.5" x 8" x 5.5", hand gathered local clay, hand built coil construction, stone polished, reduction pit fired, $325
  • Kari Rives, Joseph, 16" x 10" x 7", Hand-built, cone 5 fired, $1100
  • Jessica Rodriguez, Cuna Jar, 4” x 4” x 3”, Hand thrown hard-paste/ True Porcelain, Arita Porcelain Process, $850
  • Greta Ruiz, Thrive, 5" x 7" x 7", Coil Built Wood Fired Stoneware, $800
  • Greta Ruiz, Uplifted, 19.5" x 6" x 5", Coil built wood fired stoneware, $2000
  • Sold - Glenn Schwaiger, Prickly Pear, 29"x23"x1.5", Ceramic tile, wood frame, $1200
  • Joey Serim, Waves - wheel thrown, salt glazed and fired stoneware, 16” x 6" x 6” $250.00
  • Debi Smith, Amo a Mi Abuela, 8" x 3" x 3", Earthenware, oxide stain, underglaze wash, $365
  • Debi Smith, Mother Earth Rises, 10" x 6" x 5", Earthenware, glazes and underglaze, $365
  • Sold Cirrelda Snider-Bryan, Domain of the Cholla, 1.25" x 7.5" x 7.5", Handmade press tile from artist's drawing, Ochre clay to cone 5, Amaco, Duncan, Mayco glazes. $100
  • Kathy Stephenson, Lone Flight, 1 1/2" x 10 1/2", Wheel thrown, electric kiln fired to cone 6 with in house formulated glazes, $95
  • Darla Graff Thompson, Warming Trend, 17.5" x 7" x 7", hand-built, low-fire glaze, $500
  • SOLD - This piece sold but a replacement piece is available. Ann Trott, Tangerine Dream, 13"x8"x6", low fire stoneware with underglaze. wheel thrown and altered, $150
  • Susan Voss, Pomegranate Daze, 17" x 14", Coil pot decorated with underglaze and high fired at Cone 6, $850
  • Merlene Walker, Desert Stack, 25" x 91/2" x91/2", Cone 6 Stoneware Handbuilt, $450
  • SOLD - Merlene Walker, Lady with Bird Nesting, 10 1/2" x 4" x 4", handbuilt, cone 6, $150
  • Teagan Yan, Tranquil Current, 2" x 7" x 2", Hard-paste, True Porcelain, $180
  • Sheryl Zacharia, Chocolate Rumba, 21.5" x 19" x 6", ceramic slab constructed, $4400

To purchase works from this show, you can do so by contacting Gallery Hózhó, or send an email to Gallery.  

Sixteen pieces sold during the show, other works are still available by contacting the artist send an email to webmaster.  

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