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different styles and studios, all in one booth

Four friends who like
to throw things.

Selling on your own is a lot of work. Doing it with friends, talking shop, and enjoying the outdoors together?
Now that's a great day.

our story

About Ceramic Friends

We're Kerima, Leigh, Ann, and Derek. We met through a shared passion for pottery and stuck together even though none of us work out of the same studio. We're spread across Northern Virginia, and now New York too, each with our own space, our own influences, and our own way of approaching clay: functional and geometric, marbled and experimental, carved and altered, classic and reinvented.

What ties it together isn't a shared kiln. It's four different practices, one shared name, and a group chat that's 90% photos of things fresh out of the kiln. This site is just one more place to find us, alongside every market table we share.

@ceramicfriends.studio

Say hello (email coming soon) or through Instagram DMs.

Kerima, Leigh, Ann, and Derek at a market booth

who we are

The Potters

Four different styles, one shared table. Come see the range, meet the people who made it, and talk shop with us while you're there.

KerimaK

Kerima

Crystalline glazes

Coming soon.

Favorite tool
Metal rib
Mistake I keep making
Too-thin rims
Important lesson
Always sieve your glaze
Big win
Hosting my first crystalline workshop! And getting good crystals to form.
Hot take
Never trim the inside. Perfect it while you're still throwing.
LeighL

Leigh

Marbled clay, glaze chemistry

Leigh's work takes its cues from nature, geology, and the science of ceramics itself. She learned to throw as a child from her mom, and still remembers opening the kiln with the same excitement as waiting for Christmas morning to arrive.

Favorite tool
Chamois or needle tool (whichever I can't find at the moment!)
Mistake I keep making
Trimming while the piece is still too wet
Important lesson
Just clean your kiln shelves
Big win
Starting to sell at markets!
Hot take
Handles are easy to pull.
AnnA

Ann

Surface decorating, Jill of all trades

Coming soon.

Favorite tool
The Surform (aka "the artist's cheat tool")
Mistake I keep making
Forgetting to check wall thickness before trimming
Important lesson
You gotta wedge
Big win
My first gallery show: a juried competition in Richmond, 2025
Hot take
You're not a real potter until you can tap center
DerekD

Derek

Atmospheric firing & textures

Coming soon.

Favorite tool
Wooden rib
Mistake I keep making
Rushing (drying, firing, everything)
Important lesson
Test your glazes
Big win
A sculpture that stood seven feet tall, now in my parents' garden
Hot take
Trapped air doesn't actually cause kiln explosions

find us in person

Upcoming Markets

Four different studios, one table at the market — usually with too much bubble wrap and not enough business cards. Come say hello.

  • SEP26–27

    Burke Centre Festival Pending

    Burke, VA

    Attendance confirmation pending, check back soon!

    Details
  • OCT15

    Embassies & Entrepreneurs Pending

    George Mason University, Arlington Campus

    Attendance confirmation pending, check back soon!

    Details

Dates may shift. Check back before you drive out.

things we hear a lot

Overheard at Our Booth

A few of our favorite reactions from market days.