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Austin Coudriet: Building Big

September 19, 2025

For the past two years, Austin Coudriet’s calendar has been marked with engagements, each month sending him to a different country or US state to present his furniture-making workshops. Coudriet is not a woodworker – he is a ceramic artist – and his large ceramic pieces include chairs, tables, lamps, and sculptural pieces. This young builder who was named the 2024 Emerging Artist by Ceramics Monthly magazine and the received the 2025 Emerging Artist Award by NCECA has caught the attention of the ceramics world and has ignited interest in big clay pieces. While Coudriet’s pieces stand out, it is the community behind the work that motivates this artist not only to build big, but to think, plan, and dream big.

Peter Lane: Transformation of Earth

August 13, 2025

The scene at Peter Lane’s Scholes Street studio in Brooklyn looks like a mother’s nightmare – a group of boys on their hands and knees, pants and sleeves stained brown, a massive pile of mud. But these aren’t boys and this is not mud. They are Lane’s team of ceramicists and this is clay. The group is working on a huge architectural installation for a client. This New York based ceramic artist works on an unprecedented scale, creating architectural features for private and commercial spaces, along with furniture and decorative work. His fidelity to the nature of clay guides the process and the finished work, as he manipulates the material through a journey that magnifies its most essential elements in the final product.

Greenwich House Pottery Director Caitlin Brown: A New Porosity

June 23, 2025

History is a record of evolution, the continual movement forward of the activities of humankind. Occasionally, those gradual changes coalesce into a major paradigm shift, spurring a revolutionary change that reverberates throughout all aspects of human life. Out of this change come new ideas, new communities, and new institutions. Greenwich House, in New York City’s Greenwich Village, was born out of the Industrial Revolution at the turn of the 20^th century and continues to adapt to meet the needs of its community as a new century and a new revolution challenge the well-being and happiness of today’s populaces. Helping to meet these needs is Greenwich House Pottery’s new Director, Caitlin Brown, who comes to Greenwich House from New York State College of Ceramics and Performing Arts at Alfred University.