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I Love Ceramics
Find your next favorite potter. Learn about our Studio Tours, Artist Talks, and Newsletter, and discover work made just down the street — bowls, mugs, sculpture, and everything in between.
I Make Ceramics
Visit studios, talk shop, share ideas, find studio space, share kilns, learn, exhibit, offer workshops, and connect with buyers who are looking for work like yours.
Photography Workshop
Saturday, August 29 at Fireborn Studios
Make Your Pots Look Their Best in Photographs
You may have hundreds of pots, but often just five strong photographs determine whether your work gets into a high-quality show. This workshop will help you photograph your ceramics so they look as good or better on screen as they do in person.
We’ll cover simple, practical approaches to lighting, backgrounds, composition, camera angles, and editing. Together, we will build a simple photography booth and auction it off at the end of the workshop.
Bring your questions—and up to three pieces you would like to photograph.
You’ll leave with a clearer process for creating clean, consistent images that represent your work at its best.
Photo Credits: Scott Cornish & Leslie GreenGailbault
Potters Tour: November 21-22
The Pittsburgh Potters Tour is a two-day sales event showcasing the work—and workspaces—of our city's vast, vibrant community of ceramic artists.
The Pittsburgh Potters Tour invites visitors to explore ceramic studios across the region, meet local artists, and discover the creativity thriving within Pittsburgh’s pottery community. This self-guided experience offers a unique opportunity to see where ceramics are made, purchase work directly from makers, and learn about the craft. Along the way, you’ll visit a wide variety of spaces—from bustling community art centers and professional production studios to intimate backyard and basement workshops—each offering its own glimpse into the world of clay. You may even discover a new favorite potter along the way.
Featured Artist – September, 2026
Katie Bottermam
Katie Botterman is a ceramic artist, instructor, and ancient history nerd working in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She earned her BFA from Ohio University in 2021. Botterman has completed a residency at New Harmony Clay Project, in New Harmony, Indiana, and she was the 2024-25 ceramics artist in residence at Pittsburgh Center for Arts + Media. She works as a ceramics instructor sharting her love of clay at the North Hills Art Center, the PCA+M, and is the new Studio Manager at Eberle Studios, where Fall Class Registration is open now!
Her recent works explore ideas of permanence and remembrance. How will we be remembered in the future? How will my words outlive me? Using cuneiform, the world’s first writing system, to link herself to those working in clay that came long before. A skewed sense of time is often present. Making modern artifacts: objects that look old, are new, and will outlast us. She seeks out universalities; concepts and myths evident across the globe and throughout time, linking us all together. Something that is always consistent to Katie is nature, human nature and the world around us. Both inspire with the ways they change yet somehow stay the same. When not in a studio, she can be found adventuring outdoors: skiing, kayaking, or backpacking.
To keep up with her upcoming sales and exhibitions follow on Instagram
Photo credit for the hourglass piece: Chris Uhren
