This wall sculpture portrays two black beetles rolling a distinctly orange, prominent politician's head instead of a ball of dung.  

Nope

This is a hand thrown platter with a hand drawn image of a cow head on it with a gold halo around it.The Halo is done in luster so it is very shiny and metallic in contrast to the black and white image of the cow and border. Around the border of the platter are clover plants. The cow is a holstein cow, black and white spotted and the style of drawing is a kind of cross hatched etching sort of look. 

Saints of the Barnyard: They Give Us Their Milk

Ceramic figure, pensively gazing upward, hands on his round belly, outfitted in his speckled blue jacket, red shirt, and yellow/green striped pants.

Waiting for Better Days

A porcelain square cast collage of the US flag.  The porcelain is cracked, the crack is filled with white resin.  Sits on a background of silicone and birch plywood.

Very White, Very Fragile #2

A hand pieced clay bowl in a round shape with the Chino glaze to resemble a flower.

Petal bowl

11-31/32" Jug

Child's Hand

The piece is a thrown and altered ceramic vase. There's a wide thin horizontal lip similar to a hat rim. Below the rim is a broad shoulder that narrows down to the base and foot of the vase. On the front body there is an asymmetrical cross where the vase was hit which bi-secs the body and includes and folds down the rim in the front. This adds some unique interest points. 

Crossed

A pink baby head with elephant pacifier sits on top of a toy-like and wheeled base.  An extra large pacifier becomes the handle for the pull-string.

Margot's Big Boo-Boo Ride

Sugar bowl with lid, creamer and caddy. Decorative elements include organic sculpted embellishments and turquoise hand-painted, Indian inspired patterns.  Whimsical in nature. 

Tea Set For Maharani

A soft alpaca made of red clay standing on 4 long triangular legs and a long triangular neck. the fur texture is made of swirls that have spikes coming out. the animal looks stoic and is embellished with blue, black and green glaze. it looks very enticing to touch. 

Social Distance 

This vessel is faceted, meaning that clay has been sliced and torn away from the thrown form. What started as a round form is now jagged and angular. The cup utilizes a shino glaze that has a retinue of warm browns, oranges, and whites. The subtle streaks of blacks and greens are visible from the sides come from a wood ash solution.

Shino Rock Cup

A photograph of an orange, black, and white ceramic facsimile of a traffic cone sitting in the middle of a city street at night.

Emergency Regulations

The sculpture is a candle holder that can't hold a candle 

The Idea

A porcelain object that shaped like half of a torso of a bird. The surface of the object is covered with sculpted feathers and fingers. 

Shelter

This expressionist clay chalice abstract to ancient chalice form. It's physical base is handbuilt and angular, holding a wheel thrown and altered vessel the size of a wine glass. The white stoneware shows through in places that are not covered with a melted ash glaze over a second glaze that ranges from matt orange to glossy blue. It could be as satisfying in your hand as it is for your eyes.

Chalice

12” diameter Stoneware plate, with image of a man and a woman dancing, made with stains and transparent glaze

Dancers

A ceramic teapot with a straight spout. The body of the pot is is shaped like an alien space ship with chattering (a form of carving) along the outer edge of the pot. There is a simple bamboo handle attached at the top, for ease of use. The glaze on the teapot is a deep tan with teal and green splotches all over.

Short and Stout

Wheel thrown and altered set of nested buckets. Green glaze with salmon & orange tones from the soda ash atmosphere the vessels were fired in. 

Sisakkain

Tenuous Hold

Blue textured wall piece ornate w flowers and presenting centrally locates blossom cup

Small Grotto

Two porcelain hand thrown bowls dialogue. Hand scribed glazed lines define shape, rhythm and story.

Scribed Storied Bowls

A dimensional Ceramic flower inspired by ocean plants with individually handcut petals arranged to create movement within the piece.

Anemone

A sculpture with a cement base having a zig zag foot.  It is holding up three arched shaped ceramic forms that are off white, white, and blue.  

Three Pillars

Wheel-thrown pottery bowl with black, gray and while clay marbled together. Facets are cut in the top two-thirds of the bowl.

Marbled Bowl

A sgraffito style white clay bow with a black inner surface. Vertical dragonflies adorn the outside of the bowl with colorful wings in blue and green and purple and red.

Dragonfly Bowl

Continuous Maze Pattern: This object is a slipcast ceramic egg with a wax-resist design written in beeswax using a traditional Kistka tool for making Pysanky eggs. The patterns employed are maze, labyrinth and weaving designs meant to be contemplated as visual metaphors for the complexity we see before us now and finding a path to the other side.

Maze Pysanky Egg

A small teapot, cup and tray in shades of blue, designed to create a moment of peace and contemplation.

Personal Tea Set

A ceramic vase with a stubby body and fat neck, the lower half is a dark grey glassy clay body and the top has a natural brown ash glaze with a drip down the center.

Nope, 2020

Tricia Schmidt