I currently sell my pottery in person to folks in my community.

You can find me at the Capital City Farmers’ Market in Montpelier and at other farmers’ markets and craft fairs around Vermont. Events list here!

Some of my work is currently available at The Mud Studio in Waterbury. I’m exploring the option of selling at other local galleries and shops. Drop me a line if you’d like to sell my work at your gallery or store!

I don’t take commisions at this point! I find that I work better when I allow an aspect of play into my work. Working with someone else’s expectations in mind is often more difficult, and sometimes fails to live up to either of our hopes and dreams.

There is one specific exception to my no commissions policy.

I don’t currently sell my work online.

I don’t currently have an online store for a number of reasons. First and foremost, it doesn’t personally work for me.

I love setting up at fairs and markets. Making pottery can be pretty solitary work, and making personal connections with people who I’m making pottery for feels really meaningful to me.

I love talking with people, seeing them interact with my work, and having a tiny window into the lives my bowls and cups will lead when they leave my hands and enter others’ homes.

My skill set and interests lie so much more in that kind of in person connection rather than in marketing myself through social media!

Also, shipping pottery is tough! It’s an extremely resource intensive proposition. Shipping fragile objects means using a lot of packing material, and transporting heavy objects around the country means a lot of fuel expenditure.

Pottery is already a pretty resource intensive game — it’s made from mined materials and fired to very high temperatures. For now, I’m choosing to reduce a little bit of the footprint of my business by keeping my sales local.

Ceramics are fragile, and even with delicate packaging, they can easily break in transit, which means making insurance claims and replacing broken pieces. And that’s before the time spent photographing, marketing, posting on social media, maintaining inventory, packing, and communicating with customers and shipping vendors! It’s a ton of work and not where I currently want to spend my energy.

There are so many potters who sell their work online! There are also so many potters who sell their work locally in their own communities, in galleries and shops as well as at art events. If you’re in the market for some handmade pottery, and are not able to come find me at one of my events, I highly suggest that you purchase from one of these other folks. Find a potter in your own community - we’re everywhere!

All of that said, the reality of being a working artist means that at some point I may realize that this way of working is untenable and I’ll explore the options for selling my work online!