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K. Allison Ceramics
@kallisonceramics.bsky.social
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I’m a ceramic artist with a passion for texture and teaching. Currently embracing artistic exploration and the creative journey instead of the destination.

Shop my work: kallisonceramics.com
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Hey folks! I disappeared 6 months ago, because I’m terrible at focusing on work and paying attention to social media at the same time. 🙃 I’ve had some recent shows and just finished the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show. It’s been a wild ride but some new work has come out of it!!!
#ceramics
A highly textured pottery jar with red, white, and yellow wild clay textures in the foreground and a variety of earthy colored pottery forms in the background. A highly textured bulbous pottery vase with an intentionally broken jagged rim, with red, white, and yellow wild clay textures in the foreground and a variety of earthy colored pottery forms in the background. Six bud vases, each shaped and textured like a rock or mountain range. Two are earthy red with a different texture of red wild clay. Two are semi-glossy textured black with red wild clay. Two are an earthy orange-yellow with volcanic ash sprinkled over their texture. Each is a unique shape. The artist in a brown open weave sweater smiling for the camera with a small red and tan abstract creature sculpture smiling into the camera next to her.
November 10, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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New vase forms in progress! I’m hoping that the functionality works out, because I’m really enjoying making these!

#pottersofbluesky #pottery #ceramics #handmadevase #ceramicartist #bostonartist #uniquedecor #clay #greenware #creativeprocess
A closeup side profile of greenware dark clay vases in progress sitting on plastic wrapping. One is shown in full. Three others are partially cropped. They are V shaped with an inward curved top and a small uncentered opening for flowers. A closeup top angle of greenware dark clay vases in progress sitting on plastic wrapping. One is shown in full. Four others are partially cropped. They are V shaped with an inward curved top and a small uncentered opening for flowers. A closeup side profile of greenware dark clay vases in progress sitting on plastic wrapping. A shorter one is shown in full. Three others are partially cropped. They are V shaped with an inward curved top and a small uncentered opening for flowers. A closeup overhead view of greenware dark clay vases in progress sitting on plastic wrapping. Three are shown in full. One other is partially cropped. They are V shaped with an inward curved top and a small uncentered opening for flowers.
March 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Dropping off some new work this week to Gathering Artisan Collective, a brand new boutique in Boston for their Spring Pop-Up shop, and the soft launch of their gorgeous store.

6 Milk St, Boston, MA
March 29 - April 13
11 AM - 6 PM

#pottersofbluesky #pottery #ceramics
#popupshop
A graphic depicting the inside of an earthy upscale artisan store. Announcing the artists for their spring pop up shop and showcasing the wood/metal/glass style of their interior.
March 25, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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I go through periods where I post every day, and then long stretches where I basically forget social media exists. Is that what being an early 80’s baby is??? Anyway, working on a bunch of these for a local florist shop today.
#vases #everydayhandmade #pottery #pottersofbluesky #ceramics
A set of two pocket vases sits on a table against a black background. They are rectangular, wider at the bottom, and angled in to a small opening at the top. They are dark clay covered in white brush strokes.
March 18, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Shop drop! I just finished posting all the of my newest work, including the wild terrain vessels I’ve been sharing recently.
kallisonceramics.com/shop if anyone wants to check it out. ☺️

#shopsmall #pottersofbluesky #pottery #ceramics #shopupdate #earthypottery #texturedpottery #inspiredbyiceland
A moon jar-shaped vessel sits on a black book and black background. The vessel is covered in black heavily textured slip with white slip dripping over it like an ice cream cone. There are patches of orange/brown sand and rocks in various areas and a thick coat of melted volcanic ash coats the white drips. A moon jar-shaped vessel sits on a black book and black background. The vessel is covered in black heavily textured slip with white slip dripping over it like an ice cream cone. There are patches of orange/brown sand and rocks in various areas and a thick coat of melted volcanic ash coats the white drips. From the side. A moon jar-shaped vessel sits on a black book and black background. The vessel is covered in black heavily textured slip with white slip dripping over it like an ice cream cone. There are patches of orange/brown sand and rocks in various areas and a thick coat of melted volcanic ash coats the white drips. With small flowers. A moon jar-shaped vessel sits on a black book and black background. The vessel is covered in black heavily textured slip with white slip dripping over it like an ice cream cone. There are patches of orange/brown sand and rocks in various areas and a thick coat of melted volcanic ash coats the white drips. Close up.
March 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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What do you guys think of the smaller opening? Less moon jar, more bud vase. 🧐 I like both and may just keep doing both directions.

#pottersofbluesky #pottery #ceramics #budvase #texturedpottery #volcanicash
A small orb-shaped vase in close up. White slip brush stroke textures are visible all over with fields of burgundy oxide wash and patches of stones and sand across the surface. It has a small opening perfect for a few buds or dried flowers. A small orb-shaped vase from above. White slip brush stroke textures are visible all over with fields of burgundy oxide wash and patches of stones and sand across the surface. It has a small opening perfect for a few buds or dried flowers. A small orb-shaped vase from its whitest side. White slip brush stroke textures are visible all over with fields of burgundy oxide wash and patches of stones and sand across the surface. It has a small opening perfect for a few buds or dried flowers. A small orb-shaped vase from its drippiest side. White slip brush stroke textures are visible all over with fields of burgundy oxide wash and patches of stones and sand across the surface. It has a small opening perfect for a few buds or dried flowers.
March 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Finally photographed more of the new orb vessels! I don’t know if I have ever been so happy with a line of work. The giant pink rock is my favorite feature on this one.
#pottersofbluesky #pottery #ceramics #fromtheearth #icelandicinspirations #clayaggregates
A dark, textured, moon-jar shaped vessel sits on a black book against a black backdrop. Dark slip, sand, rocks, lava stone, and drippy slip are all visible textured on the piece. It also features one almost rounded embedded pink rock that acts as its focal point. A dark, textured, moon-jar shaped vessel sits on a black book against a black backdrop. Dark slip, sand, rocks, lava stone, and drippy slip are all visible textured on the piece. It also features pots and craters from bits that have fallen off. A dark, textured, moon-jar shaped vessel sits on a black book against a black backdrop. Dark slip, sand, rocks, lava stone, and drippy slip are all visible textured on the piece. The gold of the sand shimmers against the textured backdrop. A dark, textured, moon-jar shaped vessel sits on a black book against a black backdrop. Dark slip, sand, rocks, lava stone, and drippy slip are all visible textured on the piece. White stones dot this facade.
March 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Oh and I adopted two pieces. A yohen hagi summer tea bowl by Seikoku Udagawa and a hagi bottle vase by Sakutaro (Shoroku) 1st Yamato.
A wide mouthed white glazed Teabowl with groggy red clay visible at the foot sits on a white shelf. A pinkish/brownish tall bottle with two handles and lots of throwing lines sits on a white shelf.
February 25, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Home sweet home! Wrapped up the show in Baltimore and stopped by the International Teabowl Show in Philly on the way home. It was like heaven. So many tea bowls in one place!!!
#teabowl #matchabowl #teaceremony #pottery #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #internationalpottery #potteryexhibition #chawan
A white shelf showing two teabowls. One square-ish with a speckled green glaze. The other less uniform with a crackled white glaze. A set of four white shelves showing a wide range of teabowls from makers all over the world. A white shelf with a single Teabowl featuring a red and white shino glaze with drip and overlap marks. A set of two white shelves showing a wide range of teabowls from makers all over the world.
February 25, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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American Craft Made Baltimore day 3! I’m sad they it’s ending but I’m here til 5 if you wanna visit. Baltimore Convention Center, Otterbein Entrance.
#finecraft #artshow #pottery #ceramics #pottersofbluesky
A shelf filled with heavily textured pots waiting for their forever homes! They are all earthy and have Scandinavian/Japanese shapes with Icelandic-Inspired surfaces.
February 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Meeble’s creature friends were all adopted yesterday and now she’s lonely. I keep telling her that her family is out there waiting for her. I didn’t anticipate feeling legitimately sad for a lonely animal sculpture. Wanna be her family? Adoption info in the ALT.
#pottersofbluesky #pottery #ceramics
A mythical animal sculpture sits on a bed of leaves. It has big sweet eyes, a fish mouth, a narwhal horn, seal fins, toad spots, and a beaver tail all in dark clay. Meeble is an adult female rare Narwhal-Toad/Seal-Beaver mix up for adoption. She really loves kisses and will purse her fishy underbite for you day and night. However, she has no idea where her horn is most of the time and should always be supervised around small children and other animals. Meeble has been known to steal household items and use them to dam doorways, but her dams are artistic and comfortable, to be enjoyed by all. Adoption fee $245 plus transport costs. A mythical animal sculpture sits on a bed of leaves. It has big sweet eyes, a fish mouth, a narwhal horn, seal fins, toad spots, and a beaver tail all in dark clay. Meeble is an adult female rare Narwhal-Toad/Seal-Beaver mix up for adoption. She really loves kisses and will purse her fishy underbite for you day and night. However, she has no idea where her horn is most of the time and should always be supervised around small children and other animals. Meeble has been known to steal household items and use them to dam doorways, but her dams are artistic and comfortable, to be enjoyed by all. Adoption fee $245 plus transport costs. A mythical animal sculpture sits on a bed of leaves. It has big sweet eyes, a fish mouth, a narwhal horn, seal fins, toad spots, and a beaver tail all in dark clay. Meeble is an adult female rare Narwhal-Toad/Seal-Beaver mix up for adoption. She really loves kisses and will purse her fishy underbite for you day and night. However, she has no idea where her horn is most of the time and should always be supervised around small children and other animals. Meeble has been known to steal household items and use them to dam doorways, but her dams are artistic and comfortable, to be enjoyed by all. Adoption fee $245 plus transport costs. A mythical animal sculpture sits on a bed of leaves. It has big sweet eyes, a fish mouth, a narwhal horn, seal fins, toad spots, and a beaver tail all in dark clay. Meeble is an adult female rare Narwhal-Toad/Seal-Beaver mix up for adoption. She really loves kisses and will purse her fishy underbite for you day and night. However, she has no idea where her horn is most of the time and should always be supervised around small children and other animals. Meeble has been known to steal household items and use them to dam doorways, but her dams are artistic and comfortable, to be enjoyed by all. Adoption fee $245 plus transport costs.
February 22, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Day 2 of American Craft Made/Baltimore starts now! Looking forward to another day of amazing art.

#pottersofbluesky #pottery #ceramics #fineart #finecraft #ontheroadagain #baltimore
A small moon jar sits on a wooden table flanked by other textured pots. It faces out into a group of other art show booths. This vase is a textured white embedded with rocks and lava stones as well as ash and a drippy burgundy oxide.
February 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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American Craft Made/Baltimore Day 1 is in the books! So great to be back on the show circuit with brand new work and amazing fellow artists. It’s hard to hold myself back from buying everything!

#pottersofbluesky #pottery #ceramics #ontheroadagain #baltimore #finecraftshow #artistlife
A fine craft fair booth with white curtain, linen-draped tables, and wooden shelf accents displays a large collection of textured, earthy pottery.
February 21, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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I won’t have a chance to properly color correct the 500+ photos I took of my recent kiln load until I get back from American Craft Made/Baltimore, but I couldn’t wait to share this new favorite! I love love love the earthy tone!
#pottersofbluesky #pottery #ceramics #vessel #artobject #fromtheearth
A round moon-shaped vessel sits atop a stack of books including one about wild clay and one about oasis desert living. It compliments both books with a desert clay orange/tan color, and an earth mix of aggregates stuck to it, including rocks, sand, lava stone, deep burgundy oxide washes and more. It holds two small cat of nine tails and sits against a black backdrop.
February 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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#pottersofbluesky, who else has textured, raw surfaces and has to sand their entire pot? Tricks for making it faster/putting less strain on your body? Diamond sanding pads for 50 pots over 2 days isn’t sustainable. Image tax of a late 2024 piece. Photographing new pots today!
#pottery #ceramics
A white vase sits on a wooden table with a black marbled background. The vase is taller than it is wide, and it has an elegant, subtle curve at the bottom, cinching into a narrow neck that then widens out again at the top. It is tipped to the side. I call it a Sway Vase. The texture is similar to stucco with a dark base and mottled white over the top.
February 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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#selfie with my Phoenix friend Fil, the #kilngod. My hubs pinched him in a hurry 10 years ago for our first kiln, and he’s protected each load since. He’s guarding today’s cooling, and I like to go in and say thanks and give his little head a pat now and then.
#pottersofbluesky #pottery #ceramics
A redheaded woman crouches smiling next to a small white clay figurine sitting on top of a kiln.
February 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Everyone is glazed and in the kiln! If all goes to plan, I’ll have 5 days to clean, sand, photograph and pack for Baltimore… the epitome of luxury! These vases have nothing to do with this but it feels like they’re celebrating with me.
#pottery #ceramics #pottersofbluesky #potterwins #potteryvase
Two vases, the left slightly taller than the right, sit on a wooden table in front of a black marbled wall. Each vase has an elegant low wide curve that narrows into a skinnier neck before widening back into a trumpet-like opening. They each tilt slightly away from each other. Each is black with heavy texture and drips of bright red running down their sides. I call them “Sway” vases.
February 12, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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The bisque kiln is loaded and I am ON TIME! This never happens with shows! I’m so proud of myself. The countdown to American Craft Made Baltimore begins now.

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#finecraftshow #artshow #baltimore #pottery #ceramics #ceramicartist #pottersofbluesky #supportartists
A promotional graphic for American Craft Made Baltimore, a fine craft show produced by the American Craft Council. The graphic shows a pair of hands holding an upside down, wide necked, ribbed vase. It reads “American Craft Made, the largest juried craft fair on the East Coast. February 21-23, 2025. Baltimore Convention Center. Get Tickets.
February 10, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Patiently waiting for their bisque firing. I can’t wait to see how much they change!!! There are probably 10 slips and 10 aggregates in these experiments, along with some oxides, underglazes, and a little magic.
#artist #potteryvessel #pottery #clay #ceramics #pottersofbluesky #wip #creativejourney
A small moon jar-shaped vessel sits on a board on a wire shelf in front of a plain white wall. It is covered in white slip and drips of burgundy oxide, with spots of sand, rocks, and other textured aggregates visible on the surface. It has not yet been fired so is full of potential. A small moon jar-shaped vessel sits on a board on a wire shelf in front of a plain white wall. It is covered in dark slip and drips of white slip, with spots of sand, rocks, and other textured aggregates visible on the surface. It has not yet been fired so is full of potential. A small moon jar-shaped vessel sits on a board on a wire shelf in front of a plain white wall. It is covered in black textured slip and the top third is drips of white slip, with a coating of volcanic ash and mica, plus visible spots of sand, rocks, and other textured aggregates visible on the surface. It has not yet been fired so is full of potential. A small moon jar-shaped vessel sits on a board on a wire shelf in front of a plain white wall. It is covered in tan slip and drips of burgundy oxide and white slip, with a thick coat of sand, rocks, and other textured aggregates visible on the surface. It has not yet been fired so is full of potential
February 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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After a few days of working on cups, bowls, and wares where I have to think “functional”, I have a day of vessel decoration. Which basically means an aggregate party!!!

#earthypottery #naturaltextures #texture #texturedpottery #pottersofbluesky #pottery #ceramics #crushedstone #sand #mica
An image of a table on which sits 8 mismatched bowls and one small glass jar. Each contains a different ground up substance: green mica-filled sand, tan/rust colored sand, crushed up quartz with mica, pure mica, red/purple sand, lava beach rocks, volcanic ash, crushed brick, random stone shards.
February 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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#potterycollection day 7 is this fantastic @stevetheberge.bsky.social bottle vase in with a matte yellow textured slip. This came from the Asparagus Valley Pottery Trail 2024 and was so high up in the rafters of his studio, I almost missed it!

#pottery #ceramics #pottersofbluesky #artcollector
A tall, narrow bottle-shaped vase sits on a wooden cabinet. It is dark clay with a coating of light yellow, textured slip over all but the fingerprints at the very bottom. It sits against a white wall with a signed Broadway poster for the show “Betrayal” behind it and a chunk of red super seven mineral/gem beside it.
February 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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900 of you follow me? Thank you! I’m overwhelmed by the sense of community here! I figure it’s time to show my face, but in the studio I mostly look like I fell face first into a mud puddle. So here I am living my dream by meeting my new best friend, Ms. Humphrey.
#meetthemaker #pottersofbluesky
A very happy, brightly smiling, redheaded woman dressed in a black sweater, jeans, and black boots crouches in a large, dirt-floored sanctuary enclosure. Her left is bent near her chin, holding a few leaves of spinach. Her right holds the rest of the plastic box of spinach. In front of her, between her knees is a small capybaras, head pointed up toward the woman’s face, stretching to reach the spinach gift. The capybara is young, less than a year, and maybe only 30-40lbs. Much smaller than full grown. It is adorable.
February 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Like this but less uniform and without all the sandy/rough texture since it’ll be a drinking vessel.
A cropped view of a moon jar featuring melted lava rocks that almost look like raisins or melted chocolate.
February 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Do you think anyone goes into pottery thinking “one day I’ll spend an hour in my studio sorting lava rocks individually by size so I can decorate some cups”?

#lavarocks #potterysurface #laboroflove #pottersofbluesky #pottery #ceramics #lava #icelandicinspiration #potterylove #melty
Four piles of tumbled lava rocks sit on a worn, varnished, pine table while a hand holding a metal rib separates them by size.
February 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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#potterycollection day 6 is one of my top 5 most-used cups, this adorable @ayumihorie.com mug. Who doesn’t want to spend their mornings with an adorably cuddly bunny?
#pottersofbluesky #pottery #ceramics #potterymug #mug #collector #artcollector
A hand holds a mug in front of a painting. The painting in the background is tan with colorful medicine-shaped bursts of yellow, teal, and red. The mug held in front is white porcelain, taller than it is wide, with an organic curvy shape at the base and almost straight walls above. The handle is tight to the mug with a dent at the top for finger fit. On the mug is a line drawing of a large, cartoonized bunny. Its top half is red and its bottom half is blue. It is chasing a lively bird not depicted in the photo but shown in the second. A hand holds a mug in front of a painting. The painting in the background is tan with colorful medicine-shaped bursts of yellow, teal, and red. The mug held in front is white porcelain, taller than it is wide, with an organic curvy shape at the base and almost straight walls above. On this side of the mug is a line drawing of a large, cartoonized bird, facing the bunny’s face. Its top half is red and its legs are blue. It is playing with the bunny.
February 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM