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The CLC Gallery
The CLC Gallery is a 10,000 square foot facility showcasing the work of our 65 Resident Artists on The Clay Lady’s Campus in Nashville, TN. We are open for you to shop as well as meet the resident artists in their studios!
Find the perfect handmade gift for any occasion! Or treat yourself to the gift of art!
Scroll to see a listing of some of our artists and their work!
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday-Friday 11:00-3:00 and Saturdays 10:00-2:00
and by appointment
Resident Artist Studios
We provide opportunities in a mentoring, supportive, and educational community for emerging and professional artists. We have 65 Campus Artists with on-premise studios. When you visit The CLC Gallery, you are invited to tour the studios and visit with the artists!
“Artists working together in order for each artist to succeed individually.”
Our History
Danielle~The Clay Lady and Tami Archer purchased Mid-South Ceramic Supply Company in 2007. By 2010, the Pottery Studio expanded, growing from 25 students to 150 students. Due to the increase in these students’ skill level, Danielle wanted to offer them an even better opportunity for creative growth. These artists needed more than just a class but weren’t ready or able to setup an in-home studio. At this juncture, the building next door to Mid-South Ceramic Supply became available, and thus The Clay Lady’s Resident Artist Community began.
The entire building was made ready by a core group of eight artists (all were students from the studio) and by Habitat for Humanity ReStore! The artists came in every day for five weeks to paint, scrape, scrub, demolish and build what was needed to create a home for artists’ private studios and galleries where they could sell their work. 12 years later, the studios are full of amazing artists and The CLC Gallery is full of their beautiful work!
Campus Artist Community
Alexia Abegg
RESIDENT ARTIST
“I live in Nashville with my husband and our two dogs, Olive and Soda. I am a multi-disciplinary artist working in print-making, textiles, clay and paint.”
Alexie Smith
RESIDENT ARTIST
“My love of clay began when I was 11. Integrating typography and graphic design techniques that I studied in college into my ceramic art, I aim to speak to my generation with unique under-glaze designs. I now work at Mid-South Ceramic Supply and enjoy the opportunity to talk to and create with so many artists in the ceramic community.”
- Alexie.Smith78@gmail.com
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Alexis Colbert
RESIDENT ARTIST
“My work is primarily about story telling through visual art and written word. I think of myself as creator of magical characters rather then an artist committed to one medium. As an “outsider artist”, my mediums and techniques are not always classical and I am mostly self taught.”
Audra Ladd
CAMPUS ARTIST, LIFETIME MEMBER
“Making something of simple beauty that will become part of someone’s life is what inspires me to be an artist, especially a potter of functional work. I love to collaborate, to work with other artists or customers to make an idea literally take form. Dishes based on the wallpaper in your grandmothers kitchen? Love it! A set of cups for that super-secret eggnog recipe? Done!”
Becca Jane Koehler
RESIDENT ARTIST
“I use art to share my life. Adventuring into wild and new places gives me peace. The plants and wildlife I encounter are incorporated into my designs. I create abstract patterns inspired by the traditional and natural patterns I find along the way. My own garden provides plants to press into clay. When I’m working, the moment guides my hands, and I let go of life’s expectations. I find freedom. I make ceramics that people can use. In that way, my life is connected to the lives of others.”
Brenda Vehige
CAMPUS ARTIST, LIFETIME MEMBER
“I enjoy designing my own patterns and playing with color, shape, and texture while using an array of glass techniques from jewelry to full window pieces.”
Beth Barnard
RESIDENT ARTIST
“As a psychotherapist, I respect the unconsciousness of our lives, and as a portrait and figurative sculptor, I let it lead me when I get into the flow of my work as the hours pass. I often find that the action and movement while sculpting bring about creative ideas. The idea that I start with in a sculpture will often merge into something totally different, as it did in my piece, Summers at the Lake, seen here.”
Caroline Cercone
RESIDENT ARTIST
“Shaped by the prolific history of folk crafts, my pottery is thrown on a hand-crafted kick-powered treadle wheel utilizing a dark stoneware clay which is fired to cone 11 in a gas reduction kiln. I focus on making functional, everyday pottery for the home with a warm organic surface that invites a dialogue between user and maker, food and vessel.”
Catherine Moberg
RESIDENT ARTIST
“While working with Artist Sylvia Hyman, I became intrigued with trompe l’oeil sculpture. I became fascinated with the idea of telling stories through clay. For many years, I’ve described myself as a maker of things. This journey with clay is a continuation of my desire to make things.”
Cassis Pitman
RESIDENT ARTIST
Cassis Pitman has been working with Clay since 2012, joining the Clay Lady Campus family in 2022 .
Cassis spent her earliest years living on the small Mediterranean Island of Sardinia and that landscape is a major influence for her current body of work. Her Art is versatile yet distinct adding in a sci-fi element, she creates formations meant to have been collected from distant planet.
Cheryl Benus
RESIDENT ARTIST
“I have been working with clay for 30 years and have always taken a sculptural approach to the medium. Through hand-building and carving, I examine the expressive possibilities of line, texture, and form, while mask-making provides me a way to explore the concept of identity.”
Christine Roth
CAMPUS ARTIST
“Each piece has its own personality, a separate character. They won’t stack perfectly, but there is a story to each one; a different story for each person who holds it. My goal is to evoke memory, emotion and even passion.”
Claudette Tidwell
CAMPUS ARTIST
“As a little girl building castles in the sand, I was always making things with my hands. Pottery was something I wanted to try. After years of cake decorating with only pictures and memories left to show my work, I’m now enjoying clay. Hand-building unique and useful objects has become my creative outlet.”
Danielle McDaniel
RESIDENT ARTIST, LIFETIME MEMBER
“I spend most of my time teaching, mentoring and loving what I do. When I do get the chance to be in my studio, I make my simple bowls with birds lighting on the edge. I think of the security of home, the safety of family and the love it takes to build a nest for the next generation; the symbol of how I try to live my life every day.”
David Wilson
CAMPUS ARTIST, LIFETIME MEMBER
“Clay gives me such an amazing creative outlet. I work with Raku, electric, or gas firings to make unique pieces that can be functional or artistic. I know this will be a lifelong passion.”
DeeDee Brickner
RESIDENT ARTIST
“For me, making pottery is an emotional process. Peace comes when I begin working with a new bag of soft clay. Satisfaction comes after trimming a piece and feeling its weight and balance. Then waiting to see newly glazed pieces fresh from the kiln is like waiting for Christmas morning. I hope those emotions live on with my pots and are evoked when they are used.”
Dona
CAMPUS ARTIST, LIFETIME MEMBER
“Creativity is what feeds us and frees us to step out into our own vision and passion for life; to maybe even test the boundaries that we may not be aware are so tightly imprisoning us. Be free! Nurture and give voice to your creative spirit.”
Emilia McCann
RESIDENT ARTIST
“What started as a hobby turned into an obsession and ultimately a means of grounding and centering me. My pieces are inspired by my native southwest and Mexican roots and the places that have influenced me throughout my life, and each is intended to be a functional vessel that supports your own daily grounding rituals.”
Ellen L. Zink
RESIDENT ARTIST
“I make jewelry and wall pieces. All are hand-crafted originals made with enamels; ground glass fired onto metal using a kiln. My background is in painting and collage. Each piece I create shows that fine art background married with my graphic design expertise. Whether sifting bold blocks of color or applying subtle washes of watercolor enamel, I hope my pieces will complement your wardrobe or walls.”
Gail Gazdag
RESIDENT ARTIST
Heather Cuff
RESIDENT ARTIST
“I have enjoyed working with my hands my entire life. I’m in love with the idea of using something that I’ve made with my own hands, and I’m even happier knowing someone else appreciates the process as well.”
Jenni Kelly
CAMPUS ARTIST
“I am a clay artist who finds her home in clay. From throwing to sculpting, I love every inch of the creative process. To step into the 21st century, I became a clay bender.”
Jackie Schlicher
RESIDENT ARTIST
John Sellberg
RESIDENT ARTIST
Joseph McDaniel
RESIDENT ARTIST
“I am a potter, an artist, a ceramic chemist, and a ceramicist in general. I am just trying to make the ceramic world a better place by being a part of it!”
Jim Doramus
RESIDENT ARTIST
Keavy Murphree
RESIDENT ARTIST
“I am inspired by modern culture through the lens of history and the people who came before us. I love to consider themes that have persisted in art throughout history and then re-interpret them with a modern sensibility.”
Joshua Simpson
RESIDENT ARTIST
Joshua Wagner
RESIDENT ARTIST
“Although my sculptural work is done primarily with clay, I often include ‘found objects’ in my sculptures. This element of ‘re-use/recycle’ in my artwork is a process that affects how I live and keeps me more mindful of the earth–it helps me be a better steward of what we have.”
K. Ed Andrews
RESIDENT ARTIST, LIFETIME MEMBER
Kelly Carter
RESIDENT ARTIST
“Plants, people, and mugs. I like making planters FOR people. I like making mugs with people ON them. I like making mugs that can be used AS planters. But I don’t like making people OUT OF plants…”
Kerby Wilkes
RESIDENT ARTIST
Leland Brown
CAMPUS ARTIST, LIFETIME MEMBER
“I have been teaching and creating in clay my whole life! Although I live more than an hour away, I continue to be an active part of The Co-op. I love being part of this artist community.”
Mark Bailey
RESIDENT ARTIST
“I am grateful and joyful for the opportunity, the inspiration to abandon the familiar and discover what is coming forth through me.”
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Mary Fallon
RESIDENT ARTIST
“I apparently set the bar too low. I dreamed of retiring and having time to paint. I would never have dreamed of having a studio, surrounding myself with awesome artists, and being a member of this wonderful artist community! Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.”
Max McWhorter
CAMPUS ARTIST
Melodie Grace
CAMPUS ARTIST, LIFETIME MEMBER
“I love everything about pottery, but I’m most passionate about raku, an ancient Japanese pit-firing technique. Smoke and flame create unpredictable variation in the finished pieces, so there’s always an element of surprise. I’m interested in honoring quiet moments that evoke a memory or connection. I want each and every piece I make to be its own small celebration.”
Merideth Holder
CAMPUS ARTIST
“I apparently set the bar too low. I dreamed of retiring and having time to paint. I would never have dreamed of having a studio, surrounding myself with awesome artists, and being a member of this wonderful artist community! Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.”
Myrna McWhorter
RESIDENT ARTIST
Neda Sharifi
RESIDENT ARTIST
Skyla Carmona
RESIDENT ARTIST
After 50 plus years working with clay, I am still excited to learn new techniques and applications. I especially enjoy experimenting with texture and color. Both wheel and hand building techniques are used to create my fun and functional handmade pottery.
Nicky Smith
CAMPUS ARTIST, LIFETIME MEMBER
Nora Summar
CAMPUS ARTIST, LIFETIME MEMBER
“A love for animals and nature are a big influence in my creative process. Horses being a central theme I return to often, striving for whimsical expressions and gestures that give each piece a unique personality. Art is a very fulfilling and enjoyable necessity in my personal life and clay is the medium I tend to find most rewarding. My “happy place” is in the studio with good music playing, a bulldog at my feet and my hands covered with clay.”
Olivia Romero
CAMPUS ARTIST, LIFETIME MEMBER
Rachel Deering
CAMPUS ARTIST, LIFETIME MEMBER
Sarah Longenecker
RESIDENT ARTIST
Susan Lawless
CAMPUS ARTIST
Tami Archer
RESIDENT ARTIST, LIFETIME MEMBER
“I love working with the customers of Mid-South Ceramics, the students of The Studio, the artists of The Co-op. But, most of all, I love working with power tools and making functional wood pieces!”
Tammy Gentuso
RESIDENT ARTIST, LIFETIME MEMBER
Trey Hall
CAMPUS ARTIST, LIFETIME MEMBER
“When I’m not out touring the planet on my motorcycle, I’m playing in my studio. I like to experiment with different raku glazing techniques and throwing multiple clay bodies together to make pots reminiscent of some of my favorite desert stops during my trips around the world. Overall, I’m just an enthused hobbyist. I’m just doing it because it makes me smile!”
