Hudson Valley Women Who Woodfire Pottery Tour

05/20/2022

One more day until the Hudson Valley women who woodfire inaugural tour. Unique contemporary ceramic art. Hope to see you there.

05/19/2022

A great photo of our woodkiln firing at night! Come by and see her resting in the daylight this weekend on the tour —

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05/13/2022

Two who have had a large role in leading and supporting me in pottery and wood firing. My dear gal Lily F.. I am lucky to watch our creative lives unfold in friendship and Peter B who offered the experience of wood firing in a way that has continued to shape my life.

05/13/2022

05/13/2022

the breaking of the day..

05/13/2022

When I make these small forms I have such fun throwing bodies and necks off the hump. Then playing mix and match before attaching the two parts of each bottle together.
Happy Friday! We are getting so close to our tour! Find me, Emma out at May 21-22!!

05/12/2022

05/12/2022

Some platters in an apple ash glaze.. these are up on a shelf in my little throwing shack in Athens OH. I moved from NY a few years back to go to graduate school at Ohio u.. I am slowly back more to The great state that is New York, while still finding a home down here. I make work casually(but fiercely?)- I say this because my passion is there in the exploration of clay but I have a low life overhead currently (without much to financially support besides me and my cat!) I do a lot of practicing and recycling with the same clay. fire mostly in the winter months. Sing a lot of songs in between and I would like to raise a few dairy cows sometime in the near future.

05/11/2022

Some flicks from a firing of earthenware pots I did up at the folk art guild last summer.. warm rain, lily and billy there with a serenade, pear season.

05/11/2022

Some simple ones from a few years back.. summer soup? winter tea? -Emma

05/10/2022

Some late evening thoughts pertaining to my work.. I like softness in clay and in dough, I loved these soft cups and apple pie from this winter. Both photographed in their pre-fired forms

05/09/2022

You are here on Instagram with me, Emma Silverstein, this week! My work will be shown at 28A Clay during tour May 21-22. I will be posting some photos of my pottery and thoughts around.. I’m pictured here (by M.S. Cecil) sitting at the mouth of a wood kiln up on Hurricane Rd. in Keene, NY, where I was firing (mostly plates! hundreds of plates!) as a resident/tech at Craigardan.