CERAMICS & POTTERY
The ceramic material -- generically, CLAY -- makes up pottery wares, of which major types include earthenware, stoneware, porcelain, and brick. The place where such wares are made is also called a pottery (plural "potteries"). Pottery also refers to the art and craft of a potter or the manufacture of pottery. -- Wikipedia: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottery]
Ceramics & Pottery TECHNIQUES: (Hand-built, slab, wheel-thrown, coiled, salt-glazed, wood-fired, raku, pit-fired, etc.)
CERAMICS/POTTERY CRAFTS:
AA Clay Studio & Pottery ( Jefferson Co.: Louisville)
Alley Cat Pottery (Kristal Gilkey - Madison Co.: Berea)
Amelia Stamps Pottery (Fayette Co.: Lexington)
Annie's Art Farm - Horsehair Pottery (LaRue Co.: Hodgenville)
Art by Hart (Seth Hart - Wayne Co.: Monticello)
Bethany Rose Pottery (Campbell Co.: Melbourne)
Black Rabbit Pottery (Stacie Barton - Muhlenberg Co.: Central City)
Blanket Creek Pottery (Paul & Yael Borian - Pendleton Co.: Falmouth)
Blue Lotus Pottery (Theresa Brown - Harrison Co.: Cynthiana)
Broadway Clay (Franklin Co.: Frankfort)
Brushy Fork Creek Gallery (Christian Co.: Crofton)
Buddy Dobbins Ceramics (Madison Co.: Berea)
Amelia Stamps Pottery (Fayette Co.: Lexington)
Clay Hands in Kentucky (Sharon Ramick - Jefferson Co.: Louisville)
Clay House Pots (Amy Elswick - Jefferson Co.: Louisville)
CrocOmud Pottery (Lorissa Smith - Woodford Co.: Versailles)
Crosswinds Pottery (Cynthia Carr - Mercer Co.: Salvisa)
Dazo Clay (Jonathan Dazo - Madison Co.: Berea)
Dewdrop Pottery (Corbin)
Dirty South Pottery (Clark Co.: Winchester)
Elliott Pottery (Anne Elliott - Franklin Co.: Frankfort)
Hadley Pottery (Jefferson Co.: Louisville)
Heart's Image Studio (David Craig Waltz - Adair Co.: Columbia)
Highland Pottery (Lisa Kurtz - Jefferson Co.: Louisville)
Highland Raku Studio (Jeff & Henrietta Scott - Adair Co.: Columbia)
It's A Jungle Clayworks (Renee & Bill Bliznick - Ohio Co.: Hartford)
K Brown Pottery (Karen Brown - Jefferson Co.: Louisville)
Linda Bowman Pottery (Jefferson Co.: Louisville)
Little Swede Pottery (Suzanne Zwahlen - Lincoln Co.: Waynesburg)
Marianne Brown Pottery (Anderson Co.: Lawrenceburg)
Marshia Hawkins Pottery (Fayette Co.: Lexington)
Matchstick Goods (Jason Rueger, Common Good - Fayette Co.: Lexington)
The Meadows Pottery (Matthew Gaddie - Nelson Co.: Bardstown)
KY Mudworks (Lexington and Louisville)
Paint Creek Pottery (June & Rayford Watts - Whitley Co.: Williamsburg)
Panther Creek Pottery (Josh & Justin Riley - Graves Co.: Mayfield)
Payne Street Pottery (Tonya Johnson - Jefferson Co.: Louisville)
Pawley Studios Handmade Ceramics (Amanda & Daniel Pawley - Logan Co.: Russellville)
Pottery By Mehg (Mehg Marshall - McCreary Co.: Stearns)
Pottery By Thomas (Thomas Porter - Daviess Co.: Philpot)
PotteryRowe (Melvin Rowe - Henry Co.: Sulphur)
RD Ceramics (Ryan Durbin - Campbell Co.: Highland Heights)
Rickman Pottery (Warren Co.: Bowling Green)
Root & Twig Pottery (Cori Sturgeon - Jessamine Co.: Nicholasville)
Schall Studio [pottery] (J.D. Schall: Jefferson Co.: Louisville)
Showkitty Pottery (Jana John - Jefferson Co.: Louisville)
Silver Run Ceramics (Michelle Strader and Frederick Bartolovic: Boyd Co.: Catlettsburg)
Star Bird Pottery (Caroline Zama - Jefferson Co.: Louisville)
Stoneware & Company ("Louisville Stoneware"— Jefferson Co.: Louisville)
The Pots Place (Robert Brigl - Warren Co.: Bowling Green)
Tater Knob Pottery & Farm (Sarah Culbreth - Madison Co.: Berea)
Terra Cottage Ceramics (McCracken Co.: Paducah)
Thomas Porter Pottery (Daviess Co.: Philpot)
Three Lick Pottery (Hanna Baker - Mercer Co.: Harrodsburg)
Wayne Bates (Calloway Co.: Murray)
Wiesener Studios (Fred Wiesener - Mason Co.: Maysville)
ORGANIZATIONS:
Louisville Potters Group (Jefferson Co.: Louisville)
HISTORIC POTTERS/POTTERY in KENTUCKY
See also: TIMELINE (1815 and after)
Bonner, Willis / Thomas Nance - Calloway Co.: Pottertown, east of Murray, KY)
Bybee Pottery ([Closed in 2021] Middletown, KY)
Cornelison Pottery ([Closed in 2011] Bybee, KY)
Checklist of Kentucky Potters (compiled by Robert Cogswell)
Frederick, Sarah S (1935-2023) - ceramic artist, teacher, KCHEA Craft Luminary
Galloway, Ernest H. (McCracken Co.: Paducah)
Miller, J.H. (1814-1896) / Brandenburg Pottery (article by Robert Cogswell)
Leach, Mary Jane. "Louisville Potters and Pottery Before 1850," Antiques (Nov. 1947, 320, 322).
Noe, Bob. "Research Note: Nineteenth-Century Stoneware Makers of Madison County, Kentucky," Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Vol. 41 (2020).
Wood, Ezekial H. (Mason Co.: Maysville)
N.B.: Many early American potters were primarily farmers who produced stoneware or earthenware to supplement their incomes.
Pottery & Kiln at Pottertown, KY
1850. Willis Bonner built a kiln and started a pottery business using high-quality clay of the vicinity, thereby identifying the location as Pottertown.
