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A Coming Together: Morean Workshop Space

January 31, 2025

Beth Morean, well-known artist and philanthropist, has taken the next step in her 40-year quest to solidify St. Petersburg as a top destination for ceramic artists and continues to build on the ever-evolving expansion of the city as a worldwide arts destination in all mediums. Originally relocating to the area for family business reasons, Beth quickly fell in love with the clay community in St. Petersburg and decided it was going to be her legacy to create something special for the local art community.

2025 High School Exhibition Juror, Jerry Wagner

January 28, 2025

A springtime tradition at Standard Clay is the annual High School Students Exhibition at the ClayPlace@Standard gallery. Area art students and their teachers look forward to selecting their best pieces, showing them to a wider audience, and facing the scrutiny of a professional juror. This year’s juror, Jerry Wagner, is a paradoxical mix of artist and technician who is not only an accomplished potter but a veritable fire wizard. Wagner’s years of experience in the industrial kiln industry lends a unique perspective to his eye for the seemingly mysterious process of combining earth, chemicals, and heat.

Nashville’s Clay Lady: Danielle McDaniel

January 03, 2025

Forty-two years ago, Danielle McDaniel walked out of a Parks and Recreation Department pottery class and embarked on a journey that would touch the lives of countless Nashville school children and residents. With very little formal training, McDaniel combined her can-do attitude with an innate understanding of the human need to create, to develop what is today’s “The Clay Lady’s Campus” at Mid-South Ceramic Supply Company. With the imminent opening of The Clay Lady’s Education Center this January, a build-out of the original structure that housed Mid-South Ceramics, the campus will expand to over 53,000 square feet of studio, education, and gallery space, to accommodate the growth in local interest in ceramics, an upsurge that can be attributed in part to McDaniel’s work.