I am excited to show my photographs of my Pots with Flowers at the Lebanon Picture Frame and Fine Art Gallery in our show Fired UP!

Our show Fired Up! A Celebration of Wood-Fired Ceramics and Friendship is almost here! I love arranging flowers in my pots - bringing a little piece of the universe inside to enjoy. I am excited to exhibit my photographs of them for the first time.

Join me, Joanne Cassaro, Sue Baldwin-Way, Lois Wilkins and our guests Kevin Lehman and Salvatore Annunziato on opening night (December 6th) as we celebrate our ceramic work. The show will be up for the months of December and January. For more info. about the show click this link.

Fired Up: A Celebration of Wood-Fired Ceramics and Friendship

We are so excited to show you our ceramic work from the wood-kiln!!!! Three years in the making, this show celebrates our collaboration. creativity, and craftsmanship, as well as the friendship we developed through the process. We have been very fortunate to fire with Kevin Lehman and Salvatore Annunziato at the Lancaster Creative Factory and they are joining us with their amazing work as well. The show will be up from December 6th through January 2025. Put December 6th (from 5-8PM) on the calendar and join us for opening night! Hope to see you!

Margaret Seidenberg-Ellis, Joanne Cassaro, Lois Wilkins and Sue Baldwin-Way

Lebanon Picture Frame & Fine Art Gallery 847 Cumberland Street, Lebanon, PA 17042

P.S. On opening night all cups with be 15% off

Sue, Joanne, Me, Lois, and Kevin in front of the kiln (Copy)

Sue, Joanne, Me, Lois, and Sal in front of the kiln (Copy)

It's Hot! pyrometric cones dropping (Copy)

The kiln gets really hot (around 2000 degrees F). We've got our protective gear on! (Copy)

All fired. That's a lot of blue! (Copy)

Un loading work from the kiln (Copy)

Joanne with her favorite pot from the firing (Copy)

Lois with her favorite pot from the firing (Copy)

Sue with her favorite pot from the firing (Copy)

Detail of Sue's work (Copy)

My bottle (Copy)

Sue, Sue Tucker who joined us for our last firing, Me, Joanne, and Lois (Copy)

Fired Up: A Celebration of Wood-Fired Ceramics and Friendship

We are so excited to show you our ceramic work from the wood-kiln!!!! Three years in the making, this show celebrates our collaboration. creativity, and craftsmanship, as well as the friendship we developed through the process. We have been very fortunate to fire with Kevin Lehman and Salvatore Annunziato at the Lancaster Creative Factory and they are joining us with their amazing work as well. The show will be up from December 6th through January 2025. Put December 6th (from 5-8PM) on the calendar and join us for opening night! Hope to see you!

Margaret Seidenberg-Ellis, Joanne Cassaro, Lois Wilkins and Sue Baldwin-Way

Lebanon Picture Frame & Fine Art Gallery 847 Cumberland Street, Lebanon, PA 17042

P.S. On opening night all cups with be 15% off

Sue, Joanne, Me, Lois, and Kevin in front of the kiln

Sue, Joanne, Me, Lois, and Sal in front of the kiln

It's Hot! pyrometric cones dropping

The kiln gets really hot (around 2000 degrees F). We've got our protective gear on!

All fired. That's a lot of blue!

Un loading work from the kiln

Joanne with her favorite pot from the firing

Lois with her favorite pot from the firing

Sue with her favorite pot from the firing

Detail of Sue's work

My bottle

Sue, Sue Tucker who joined us for our last firing, Me, Joanne, and Lois

Strictly Functional Pottery National

I am so happy and excited to have this piece accepted into the Strictly Functional Pottery National (SFPN). This is the 32nd year of this wonderful show juried by David MacDonald. Although this show is local -at the Lancaster Museum of Art it is a national show attracting ceramic artists from all over the country and for the last couple of years, beyond. I am so honored to get in!

Because this show takes place near me I have had the opportunity to help with various aspects over the years, from unpacking and packing up the pots to helping with editing the catalog and in the past sitting the show and even dusting. Being involved, for me, has been a wonderful way to get to know the work a little better. I am grateful for this opportunity provided by Jean Lehman who directed the show for 17 years, and to the present co directors Kevin Lehman and Amy Burk.

I can’t wait to see all the work in person! I hope you can make it too. The opening night is September 27 from 5-8 PM and the show is up until November 9. The website for the SFPN is www.strictlyfunctionalpottery.net

Looking for a hand made gift for someone special?

I am really happy with my newest work that just came out of the wood kiln. Firing with wood often adds a beautiful dimension to the work, telling a story of how the flame and ash move through the kiln and interact with the clay and glazes. I hope you enjoy it too and are able to find that special gift.

Visit www.msepots.com , find Layla, and when you order something get a little something just for you, from me.

If you are interested in learning more about the wood-fire process take a look at this cool video made at the Lancaster Creative Factory (where I fire my work) by Natural Light Films:

https://vimeo.com/866851258

Wood/Soda Fired Cup. Slab built with slip design and hollow extruded foot.

Cups available for sale at Charlie Cummings Gallery through February 2024!

I am excited to have five cups available for sale at Cup:The Intimate Object XIX at Charlie Cummings Gallery. I love being a part of this show. Check out my cups below and go to the web site link to see the amazing collection of really creative cups and see which are your favorite (I would love to hear which are your favs!). :

https://charliecummingsgallery.com/cup-the-intimate-object-xix.html

Ditch lilies in wood/soda fired basket

I have always called the lilies that I brought from my mother’s garden in Vermont just Day lilies. They are the same ones that grow by the side of the road, on the edges of fields on the way into Hershey. They grow in such abundance and have such great color they have the ability to brighten your day when you see them. A neighbor of mine called them ditch lilies and at first I bristled at the name but since then it grew on me and I kind of like it!

I am excited to have my cups included in the ICAN Holiday Cup Show!

Check out all the cups here:

https://ceramicartsnetwork.org/Contests/ICANOnlineExhibition/ICAN-Online-Juried-Show-Exhibition-Archives-198456/2nd-annual-ican-cup-show-gallery

I am excited to have these cups included in the ICAN (International Ceramic Artists Network) Holiday Cup Show. These three cups were made from slabs of clay that were first textured on a template that I carved at this time last year when I was inspired by the beautiful leaves falling from the trees. They were fired in a wood kiln in the soda chamber giving them a nice sheen on their surface.

Playing With Fire: Altered Atmospheres, Saratoga Clay Arts Center #2

I am excited that this piece will be joining my Moon Jar at the Saratoga Clay Arts Center national juried show Playing with Fire: Altered Atmospheres juried by Mark Shapiro. The show will be up from March 13 - April 24, 2021.

Tambourine Platter 9.5”W x 9.5”D x 2.5”H, Penland Clay with slip design, wood-fired

Playing With Fire: Altered Atmospheres, Saratoga Clay Arts Center

I am excited to be sending this piece to the Saratoga Clay Arts Center national juried show Playing with Fire: Altered Atmospheres juried by Mark Shapiro. The show will be up from March 13 - April 24, 2021.

Moon Jar, 11” x 9” x 7”, Slab and coil built, Penland Clay body, Wood fired