Our Story

Sherri is a potter specializing in wood-fired ceramics. Focusing on both functional and aesthetic pottery, she creates pieces that celebrate the small rituals of daily life. She views pottery as a medium for cultivating appreciation for the imperfect and unpredictable.

“Wood-fired pottery brings with it an air of the unexpected, the uncontrollable. While I began my career working with gas and electric kilns, wood-fired kiln pottery is the style that I find most inspiring, specifically because of the wide variety of textures, rough and smooth edges and colors produced. The artist cannot control the licks of flame or the movement of ash during the firing, and must surrender the piece of pottery to the kiln. This is a process of metamorphosis, making each item truly one of a kind. Because of this, after the firing, potters are faced with forming a relationship with an object that has been transformed through an unpredictable process.

Often we face similar challenges in our own lives, as circumstances shape and mold us in unpredictable ways. Pottery in this way serves as a metaphor for learning to love what is or what has become, challenging ourselves to see beyond expectation to even something more surprising and beautiful.”