The residency studio in late-afternoon light — work tables, shelves of ceramic vessels, and rows of botanical prints pinned to the wall — The main studio, north windows. Anyone can look in from here. Season 4 · weeks 1–12

A window into the studio, left open on purpose.

This is the public face of the residency: who is here, what is being made, what is being tried, and what has accumulated. Nothing here is a press release — it is the working surface of the studio, shown while the work is still warm.

3artists in residence

6works across wall & bench

6experiments running

128raw marks kept this season

How the studio remembers: the capture cycle

Everything in this portal grows out of one loop. Work happens; the studio notices; the noticing gets marked down exactly as it was — a sentence fragment, a hum, a photograph of a shelf — and then everyone goes back to making. Marks are never tidied into interpretations. The raw moment stays raw.

1MakeThe work itself. Hands first, documentation second.

2NoticeSomething snags attention — a crack, a chord, a color that finally works.

3MarkA voice note or a line of text, kept verbatim. Ambient capture runs underneath, always.

4Keep makingThe mark goes in the ledger and the loop closes. No stopping to summarize.

In residence

Click a name to step into their private workspace.

Works, as they stand

One featured piece per artist. The full bench — proof walls, glaze shelves, tape archives — lives in their workspaces.

A bold woodcut-style print in ochre, rust red and black with sweeping arcs and registration marks

In progress

Weather Systems, plates 1–4

Ana Ruiz · woodcut & letterpress

Four plates carved, two still fighting her. The arcs keep arriving bigger than the paper wants them to be.

Handmade stoneware vessels in grey, sand and deep green glazes on a wooden shelf

Resting

Vessels for a Long Table

Ben Okafor · stoneware

A full place setting for twelve, thrown and glazed. Resting while Ben decides whether the green is honest yet.

Fine waveform lines in black and deep teal crossed by a single red thread line

Being tested

Room Tone, North Windows

Cleo Zhang · sound, 22 min loop

The studio's own sounds — kiln tick, press thump, rain on the skylight — drawn as lines and played back as a room.

The Gallery — the way through to THERE

The residency and THERE are not two projects side by side. They meet in one room.

One wall in the studio, one wall in THERE — the same wall.

Finished and in-progress work leaves the bench and is hung in the Gallery. The Gallery is the shared threshold: on one side, the residency's tables, kiln, and press; on the other, THERE — its analyst's room, its living café, its quiet exhibit. A visitor who comes to look at the work can step through, and what they say in THERE comes back here and lands in the ledger as a raw mark, verbatim, like everything else the studio keeps.

The north windowsAna's Weather Systems hang where the light that made them still falls.

The long tableBen's vessels are not on a plinth — they're set for twelve, in the café, in use.

The listening cornerCleo's room tone plays at the threshold itself, so you hear the studio before you see it.

Real work — ceramics

Real pots, real photographs. Names and note fragments only — shorthand, as recorded.

Layered bowl — a large bowl held over a wooden table, deep teal glaze giving way to speckled tan and cream

Layered bowl, fired — the aqua interior, held in one hand — fired · in hand

Real work · Not for sale

Layered bowl

Feb 18, 2026

Glaze ocean

Note

dragonfruit clay · aqua · arctic blue · starry night/coastal blue · koke yellow · cream

In the Gallery: café serving bowl — crosses full, comes back empty.

The speckled bowl from above on a dark counter — cream glaze with brown speckle and a sweep of pale blue

The same speckled bowl on a wooden table, the pale blue section turned the other way

Real work

Speckled bowl — two views

Large bowl · speckled cream, pale blue

Glaze coastal whites

Two views — dark counter, wooden table.

In the Gallery: north windows, daylight.

Real work · Not for sale

Seafoam mug

Feb 18, 2026

Glaze seafoam

Note

buff clay · swoops of cream · coastal blue · spearmint drips · spearmint inside · finished 2/18/26 · not for sale

In the Gallery: café shelf — in rotation.

A handmade mug in mottled blue-green-brown glaze, held up in two hands

Real work

Hand-held mug

Mottled blue-green-brown

Glaze seafoam

Held up to the light, both hands.

In the Gallery: café rotation — in hands, not shelved.

Real work

ocean mug

held · glazed · blues over brown

Glaze ocean

In the Gallery: café rotation — in hands.

aqua and cream mug, fired — blue over speckled clay, filled, on a glass table

Real work · Not for sale

aqua and cream mug

Jul 15, 2023

Glaze coastal whites

Note

speckled · aqua · cream on rim · finished 7/15/23 · not for sale

Two views — fired, filled · unfired, on the bench.

In the Gallery: café shelf.

Real work · Not for sale

bluegreen with cream inside

Jul 15, 2023

Glaze seafoam

Note

speckled clay · aqua outside · cream inside · arctic rim · starry night · finished 7/15/23 · not for sale

In the Gallery: the long table.

Cosmic mug — a handmade mug held in one hand, dark rim over layered blue, brown and cream glaze

Real work · Not for sale

Cosmic mug

Feb 18, 2026

Glaze cosmic

Note

50/50 or buff clay? · night inside · coastal blue out · cream · overlap both sides

In the Gallery: café shelf by the long table — in use.

Real work · Already crossed

Francisco's bowl

bowl · for Francisco · given

Glaze ocean

Note

bowl · for Francisco · given · blues, a horizon · a mountain held in it

In the Gallery: beside the letter — the bowl itself, kept in picture.

names drift — seafoam, cosmic, ocean, coastal whites

tests · fails · uggos

The rest of the record, hung on purpose — the glaze tests, the fails, and the uggos, kept and named like everything else. Below them, the shelves still in progress: glazed and waiting on the fire, bisqued and waiting on glaze, and two ideas not yet clay.

Test · kept