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Pottery on the Hill 2024
Pottery on the Hill is BACK and so was it’s social media takeovers by its artists!
From details to behind the scenes to potter features & takeovers, the last couple of months shared all things pottery!
Pottery on the Hill 2024 will be Friday, November 15th – Sunday, November 17th. Register here.
Now for a recap:
First up on our social media takeovers was Jenny Mendes, who started on August 14th. A full-time ceramic artist and painter, she uses weaving intuition and inspiration from nature and human connections which shows in her work. One of her posts was of her woodfired bowls, making it fun with sharing a familiar face:
Next up was the team, Matt Kelleher and Shoko Teruyama. They took turns to share their unique pottery, each having a couple of posts. Here is one of Matt’s:
On August 26th, we did a feature on Matthew Hyleck, a studio potter whose outstanding utilitarian pottery has earned recognition by the Maryland State Arts Council (@mdartscouncil) Individual Artist Fellowship award in Craft in 2018, 2011, 2007 and 2005. He serves as the Executive Director for Baltimore Clayworks. Learn more about him:
Starting September’s takeover was Suze Lindsey, who owns and operaes Fork Mountain Pottery and is based in North Carolina. She shared some posts but also reels including one about her way to walk to work or her studio, a fun way to see a look in the life of one of our potters:
Then it was David & Junko Young (@thelionpotter), and they were especially active this year in their takeover! They started with a reel saying hello from their hometown in Pennsylvania:
And they shared a very fun and interesting reel of the making of their new series of ceramics:
They even had a lovely video introducing their family, their business and it included subtitles (which is a huge plus for any social media video!)
Michael Kline was next up for the social media takeover. He started with a reel that became one of the top engaged and reached reels this season:
Then his post on September 17th was our most liked so far, with over 1,000 likes where he shared a backstory. An except from the post:
l’ve been wanting to share images of a piece that was instrumental in carrying me to a new chapter in my pottery making life with its intriguing message. The message was simply: Love what you do and love what you make. Beyond the obvious features, aesthetics, and intrinsic value of this bowl is a feeling of hope and a desire to preserve.
Sam Taylor was next, who has been making pottery for over 25 years. His first post was to give recognition to the Pottery on the Hill curator, Dan Finnegan which rightfully garnered a lot of engagement:
He also shared some reels and posts of how nature and his art history degree inspire his pottery like in this post:
Then it was Dan Finnegan, the man himself! His interest in ceramics began in college and ran his pottery and gallery in historic downtown Fredericksburg for more than 20 years, making tens of thousands of useful stoneware pots and training the next generation of young potters. Pottery on the Hill is on it’s 13th year so his first post, he shared a nice throwback to it’s first year announcement and last year’s group photo:
He continued to go on memory lane and share behind the scenes including a post about his studio near his home in Virginia:
Closing out September and welcoming October was Donna Polseno, taking over from Liguria, Italy where she showed some of the clay and pottery around her:
Next was Stacey Snyder who has a BFA in Ceramics and Photography from Indiana University and MFA from Penn State University. She shared her work and also a video of her comute to work aka her backyard:
We are loving these behind the scenes look at how these talented potter’s work and are inspired!
Catherine White and Warren Frederick continued the takeover the following week. Among their partnerships, they have had pottery commissions for over 40 years for Omen-Azen, a Japanese restaurant in New York City. They shared posts about their work process, inspirations, and explained the gas versus electric kiln process:
The following week was a feature on Matthew Metz:
Then Julie Wiggins did a takeover who gave an update from her home in North Carolina after the devastating storms. As she writes in her caption, “This is a story of human resiliency. Mountain folk and the artists community are hearty and strong We’re moving through all the stages of grief as we rebuild. The artist community have been the volunteers helping in all the ways.” Watch it here:
Thank you to all our pottery takeovers, we still have Mark Shapiro and the Bandana Pottery so please go check them out and don’t forget to grab your tickets! and we look forward to seeing them and all of you to Pottery on the Hill! Get your tickets here.
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