Summer Sale @ sfclayworks Visit our summer sale. We are introducing something new this summer at sfclayworks. Stop in and see our studio artists and studio assistants! The card says it all! Come say hello, and see what we have been working on this year. Directions >
Konnichiwa San Francisco Clay Works! Chris, Judy, and Basho living the life in Japan sfclayworks is excited to share with you a few tales from the adventures of sfclayworks artist Chris Lewis. Chris is in Japan for a month and wanted to share his clay advetures with all of you. Thank you Chris! We look forward to more stories. Konnichiwa San Francisco by Chris Lewis While I am in Japan for a month, I thought I would share some of my pottery experiences with the greater clay community via this blog. Thanks first goes to sfclayworks own CTO, [...]
sfclayworks is pleased to announce the next exhibit in our gallery space featuring the ceramic sculptures of artist and sfclayworks instructor Georgia Hodges. Georgia will be exhibiting a number of ceramic sculptures in her show titled, "Portraits of a Landscape". Stop in and experience for yourself the sensual quality that Georgia brings forth in her ceramic sculptures. Coming up in the sfclayworks gallery: What: Portraits of a Landscape: Ceramic Sculptures by Georgia Hodges When: January 27, 2017 - February 26th, 2017 | Studio hours: Tues 5-9 | Wed-Friday 12-9 | Sat-Sun 12-5 Where: sfclayworks | 2240 Palou Avenue| San Francisco | CA | 94124 Artists Statement: This work is about expressing the ever present movement of time and the highly expressive materiality of clay. I embrace the history and nature [...]
Still reeling from the aftermath of the recent Presidential election, as we wonder what lies ahead for this country, all of us at sfclayworks still have a great deal to be thankful for. Five years ago when we set our sights on maintaining the creative clay community that we were all a part of at "The Clay Studio", we gathered our resources and energy to create this wonderful place to work. Five years have a gone by in a flash and as we head into the future we are thankful to our founding members, our incredible hands-up workers and, of course, our amazing students and community members. Together we are all a part of this supportive and creative community at sfclayworks. No matter what else [...]
sfclayworks is pleased to announce that we are once again participating in this years San Francisco Open Studios. SF Open Studios 2016 will mark our 4th year of participating as a group at our current location 2240 Palou Avenue. For those of you who are unfamiliar with SF Open Studios, here is a description from the SF Open Studios website. "SF Open Studios, the oldest and largest open studios program in the country, is an annual, month-long art event in October and November that showcases over 800 emerging and established San Francisco artists in their studios. 2016 marked the 41st annual SF Open Studios event. We invite you to explore our city and find amazing art at every turn. " Every weekend from October 15 through November 6, artist studios will be [...]
It's that time of year again in the studio at sfclayworks when we get busy with some of our annual events. On Friday, October 7, 2016, we will once again be featuring our amazing students and community members during our 4th Annual Student and Community Exhibition. This years theme, "Variety is the Spice of Life", is very broad so you should expect to see a good "variety" of work. Our studio members always manage to turn out some pretty amazing pieces, which we are very excited about. The exhibit is open to all sfclayworks members. The exhibition offers studio members an opportunity to very work hard at putting together something special. We can't wait to see what the community has in store for the show. Please join our Students and Community [...]
August 18-September 4, 2016 sfclayworks | 2240 Palou Ave | San Francisco | CA | 94124 Opening Reception: Sunday, August 21, 2016 from 2pm-4pm Jee's work will be available for sale during the exhibition! sfclayworks is excited to announce a new exhibit in the gallery, featuring one of sfclayworks awesome community members, Jee Wipperfurth. Jee has had her fingers in clay at sfclayworks since we opened in 2011; though if her memory serves her right, she has been working on and off in clay since early 2001. Outside of her busy day to day responsibilities, Jee finds time to slip into the studio and get lost in her meticulously carved porcelain pieces. Sometimes when we look at our own work change is hard to see, [...]
We are pleased to announce a new exhibit in the gallery at sfclayworks. From May 18-June 7, 2016 we will be featuring the ceramic sculpture work of San Francisco artist Barbara Vanderbeck. Barbara joined the teaching staff at sfclayworks in 2015 and we have heard nothing but rave reviews about her classes. When she is not teaching here at sfclayworks, you will find her in her own studio, or at other studios around town sharing her knowledge and enthiusiam for clay. Please stop in and see Barbara's interesting and colorful sculptures during our studio hours. Barbara's work will be also be available for sale. [...]
It is 2016 and already five years since we all took the plunge to create sfclayworks. It has always been a desire of ours to have an active gallery space in the front of the studio. We are pleased to announce that besides our Annual Student and Community show, our SF Open Studio Show, and our yearly guest artist show, we are finally making that happen. When we started tossing around the idea for our new plan, we had the difficult task of figuring out who we wanted to showcase during our first display. We quickly decided that long time studio member, Marcia Rosser, would be a fantastic selection. Throughout the years we have watched Marcia move from making pottery predominately thrown on the wheel, to her fantastical salt [...]
We are grateful for another successful year at sfclayworks. Four years have passed since we collectively decided that we needed to create a clay studio to continue our journey in the ceramic arts; it has been an experience that has gone by so quickly. As we head into our fifth year at sfclayworks, we have grown into an amazing collection of interesting members who all share a love for playing in the "mud". We have become a blend of adopted, and new traditions that help bring our community together. Besides the opportunity to share our love of clay through our classes and community studio access, we continue to look forward to our mid-year guest artist workshops, our student and community exhibitions, SF Open Studios, and our beloved end of the year Box Party celebration. The Box [...]
