Holly Sears and Her Feet of Clay

What is Feet of Clay?

Feet of Clay is a cooperatively run pottery studio with a large and well-equipped studio space that is shared by a diverse group of ceramic artists and potters.

It was begun by six women in 1974. Today there are around 40 clay artists and potters sharing space in Brookline Village. The place gets more interesting all the time. They may only have electric kilns BUT there's such an amazing amount of wild and experimental shit you can do with those babies. SO many possibilities! This was something I was fooling around with way back when I was there. Ceramic chemistry — oh yeah, we were big buds!

Feet of Clay runs some cool, nifty keeno workshops now too — raku. woodfiring!!!, printing on clay, glazing, surface decoration, throwing large forms and more. Check 'em out!

The studio has really grown since I was working and potting there. It was def a great little atelier and, my friend and fellow manager Holly Sears (we were two of four), was the best studio mate I’ve ever had. She's doing more painting and sculptural work now versus regular pots but she still does those too. Check the linky for more of her functional ware. Happily I've a few of her paintings, pots and tiles — none of the sculpture YET.

While our work was/is wildly different we appreciated and influenced each other.

This very evening, at 5pm, the annual Feet of Clay Holiday Show begins. I won’t be able to make it so I stopped by the shop earlier this week. I’d hoped to see Holly and hopefully have first pick of her magical, Chagall-esque tiles (for my bathroom and kitchen!). She wasn’t there but her fab co-manager Jennifer Wyman was. We’d never met but she kindly let me in to peruse the wares that were already in place AND take some pics.

Jane Simon's another person whose work just grabbed me by the neck and said LOOK AT ME NOW! Get over here. No, NOW!  I wish I could make the opening. Would LOVE to meet Jane and geek out with her over textures, glazing a firing.

Ya gotta check out Jenn Wyman's work (sadly no pics but go to the linky). She rocks some wild, beautiful, subtle, glorious glaze magic.

Go look and enjoy the opening tonight!