2026 Holiday Pottery Pop-Up Sale
December 12, 1 - 8pm
Join us for a one day pottery pop up on December 12 to have a drink and celebrate pots! Included in the pop up are seven Northern California potters working in a diverse range of styles.
Included Artists:
Casey Beck
Katie Gibbs
Lauren Nguyen
Matt Fishman
Nick Werkmeister
Stephanie Yee
Syd Ruchdeschel
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Meet The Artists:
Casey Beck
Cobb, CA
Casey Beck is a studio potter and long-term artist in residence at Cobb Mountain Art and Ecology Project in Loch Lomond, California. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin–River Falls.
Beck’s current research focuses on clay body chemistry and soda firing, a process in which sodium is introduced into the kiln at peak temperature and volatilizes to form a glaze on the surfaces of his wares. His work recalls historical Italian vessels while drawing on the traditions of studio pottery in Minnesota and Wisconsin, where he learned to make pottery.
Beck has been a resident artist at Red Lodge Clay Center in Montana and La Meridiana in Italy and was named a 2023 Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artist. He has also taught ceramics and soda firing workshops internationally. Outside of the studio, Beck enjoys riding bikes, discovering new music, playing games, and cooking.
Katie Gibbs
Oakland, CA
I began working with clay over ten years ago in a high school class, but it wasn’t until I joined The Potters’ Studio a few years ago that my passion for it took over. I’ve been a full-time potter since 2019, and currently work out of a studio that I set up in West Oakland. Much of my work focuses on using locally sourced clay and glaze materials. I find the processes and constraints associated with foraged materials to be an exciting source of inspiration and knowledge of the ceramic process.
Lauren Nguyen
Berkeley, CA
Lauren Nguyen is a ceramicist working from Berkeley, California, and Tokyo area, Japan. A Bay Area native, she began her ceramics journey while living in Tokyo, and the foundation of her approach and philosophy is grounded in her time there along with the rich ceramic culture of Japan. With a focus on wood firing, her work explores the tension between precise craftsmanship and the wild, raw nature of clay. As an artist straddling two sides of an ocean, she is interested in contradictions and dichotomies: between modern and ancient, restrained and wild, natural and manmade. Her ceramic practice allows her to explore these tensions and express physically what it means to live between and across different cultures.
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