Annual Fall Sale - October 3-5, 2025 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
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Potters for the 2025 Fall Sale
Janel Jacobson
I currently enjoy using high fire porcelain clay with the intention of making pots that are useful in daily life. While doing this, I continue to pursue developing wheel-thrown forms that may be gently reshaped, carved, stenciled and slip-textured to be enhanced with celadon glazes, or to serve as a canvas for active, responsive carbon trapping glazes.
janel@janeljacobson.com
www.sunrisemnpottery.com
Visit Janel's webshop
Will Swanson
I fashion useful, stoneware pottery for the kitchen and table.
My intent is to make functional pots which will be enjoyed through the simple aesthetic pleasures of everyday use.
In all my pots, I want the character of the earth materials and the hand-making process to be evident.
The best of these should attain a satisfying simplicity while conveying the uniqueness of the handmade object.
will@willswanson.com
www.sunrisemnpottery.com
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Jeff Oestreich
A majority of my work is intended for daily use, although some pieces challenge the notion of function and find their place in a more formal setting. With this in mind, thought is given to weight, balance and access. My passion is in the geometric, playful forms and patterns of Art Deco architecture, softened by the action of the flame and vapor of the soda firing process.
jeffo@frontiernet.net
oestreichpottery.com
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Clarice Allgood
(New this year to the Fall Sale at Sunrise Pottery)
I consider the pots I choose to make as tools. Some are tools of conviviality but most are objects that support moments of engaged solitude such as knitting, gardening, reading, and cooking. These pots inhabit the world I want to live in, inclusive of any and all activities which encourage self-reliance and connection. Studio practice entails forms of the perennially useful as well as re-purposing the once essential. Recycling motifs of indistinct eras and design elements of other handcrafts inspires my surface work which is then surrendered to the vagaries of atmospheric soda firing, muddling those patterns in enexpected ways. My hope is that these objects which might lend delight, beauty and comfort in this new world of ours, and once it is forgotten.
Ernest Miller
As a maker inspiration comes from field landscape, farm implements, and architectural features such as barns found in the Midwest as starting points for ceramic vessels and glaze surfaces. Observations of source material may be interpreted literally or sometimes abstracted using elements to complement functional or sculptural forms. Growing up on a farm in Southern Illinois instilled the virtues of utility, where the everyday use of a tool or piece of equipment was relied upon. Now residing several years in Minneapolis, Minnesota I have been seeking a way to bridge the creative space between “urban” and “rural” with inspired designs and reliable functional ceramics for the home.
emillerceramics@gmail.com
www.ernestmiller.com
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Liz Pechacek
My work is concerned with the making of meaningful objects. I am fascinated by the burst of energy that finds a new form, and inspired by the calm obsession required to winnow that shape into the most ideal proportions. I then apply color and line to the surface of an object in a playful re-examination of the original idea. This process of invention, perfection and appraisal charges a cup, bowl, or sculpture with a vibration which can create a positive disruption in usual patterns of living. If I can create and share something unexpected through this exploration, then I feel that my objects can be of use.
The implied expectation of interaction with pottery is deeply ingrained in our culture, making this medium a perfect vehicle for my work. My desire to sculpt comes directly from within the patterns of my work as a potter. I do not think I can do one without the other, for each experiment fuels the next in a studio practice of perpetual motion without conclusion.
erpechacek@gmail.com
www.lizpechacek.com/
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Nick DeVries
My work strives to find an aesthetic balance between the built world and the natural one. Always with an eye towards form I work to balance tight lines, squared forms, and architectural details with hints of landscape, subtle textures, and satin glazes that suggest lichen or grass. I currently work mainly in porcelain and white stoneware firing and finishing my work at cone 6 in an electric kiln. I spend a lot of time layering glazes with a spray gun to achieve the depth and variation in the finished work.
devriespottery@gmail.com
www.devriespottery.com
This little map will help you to navigate between our studio in Sunrise to Matt's place near Stark. The drive is about 11.3 miles between our places.
ALSO: Matt Krousey and his invited guest potters will participate in his in-person Fall Sale October 4-6 2024
For more information about Matt Krousey’s fall sale, visit: mkrouseyceramics.com