These are Pommes. Mid-range fired porcelain with underglaze, glaze and hobby moss collars. The Pomme is a fruit. Fruits have multiple meanings. They are forbidden, nourishing, queer, they grow, they rot, they seed and grow again.
I Make Stuff
Erin Shafkind is an artist, writer and educator living in Seattle, WA. She studied art and earned a BA and teaching certificate at California State University, Humboldt and received an MFA from Lesley University’s College of Art and Design in Boston. She’s been teaching art in Seattle Public Schools since 1998. These days she hand-builds and throws on the pottery wheel using stoneware and porcelain clay bodies and occasionally works with earthenware clay bodies. She also writes about art and artists for national magazines and local galleries.
happy Valentine Studio
This is the space where a lot of the magic happens. Erin Shafkind creates and occasionally teaches small workshops out of the studio. Send an email if you’d like to be included in future messages about workshops and events.
eshafkind@gmail.com or click the envelope icon below
Erin Shafkind
making stuff for over 50 years