Beth-Ellen Berry Beth-Ellen Berry fell in love with clay during a high school Introduction to Ceramics class, but it wasn’t until she took a hand-building class at Montgomery College 30 years later that she restarted her pottery journey. Her path led through a variety of courses at different studios. In 2019, she bought a wheel and set up her home studio where she now works. After retirement from her accounting career, she jumped into making pottery her “full-time job.” Blue

Catherine gearing up for a firing. Catherine Sabatos There are many ways you can fire pottery. After starting out with cone 10 gas reduction firings, Catherine Sabatos settled on the long, exhausting, but rewarding wood-fired process. In addition to the look wood firing gives her pieces, it’s the teamwork she appreciates. “We rely on each other to make sure we stoke correctly, monitor the temperature and keep the wood coming.” But there’s more than that. I“In between the stok

Potter Esther Murphy decorates the surface of a pot in her studio. Esther Murphy Twenty-three years ago, Esther Murphy walked into a pottery class at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria. Little did she know that her “Monday-night outings,” would turn into a lifetime love with clay. She later set up a home studio in Shepherdstown, West Virginia where she currently does her creating. During those early years, she worked with Bill Van Gilder and Phil Berneburg at the st

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