Event Details
ANNUAL FLOWER CITY POTTERY INVITATIONAL
OCTOBER 11 - 13, 2024 • 713 MONROE AVE • ROCHESTER, NY • 14607
Flower City Arts Center is proud to welcome, for the eighth year, 19 premier ceramic artists from across North America for a long weekend celebrating the best in contemporary clay. The event includes a special artist reception, sale, pottery exhibitions, demonstrations, workshops, and talks by visiting artists.
This is a unique opportunity for collectors, clay enthusiasts, and anyone who appreciates finely crafted, handmade work to meet and talk with masters of the field and see a large body of their work. Whether you prefer contemporary design or rustic tableware, hundreds of hand-crafted pots will be exhibited and available for purchase, and their makers will be on-site to talk about and demonstrate their work. For those of you who are new to contemporary ceramics, this is the perfect opportunity to see the range of work being made with this extremely versatile material.
SCHEDULE:
Artist Workshops - Thursday, October 10 (Pre-Registration Required)
- 9:30am - 12:30pm – Fitted Organic Sculptures with Brian Chen
- 1:00 - 4:00pm – Surface Decoration Using Stencils with Ruth Easterbrook
Artist Reception - Friday, October 11 from 6 - 9pm
- Tickets are $35 and include 1 cup handcrafted at FCAC.
- Tickets will be available at the door. Preorder is encouraged as space is limited.
Free Pottery Exhibitions, Demos, & Artist TalkS
- Saturday, October 12, from 10am – 5pm
- 11:15am – Illustrating on Pots with Celia Feldberg
- 12:45pm – Compli-clay-ed with Brooks Oliver
- 2:00pm - It's the Little Things with Tim See
- 3:15pm - In Conversation with Everson Curator Garth Johnson - Tina Gebhardt
- Sunday, October 13 from 11am – 4pm.
- 11:30am - T is for Teapot! with Kyle Lascelle
- 1:00pm - Squares, Squares, Squares with Casey Beck
- 2:15pm - Underglaze Painting with Juan Barroso
Virtual Shopping Appointments: Sunday, October 15, 10 – 11am
- Please email kwhorton@flowercityarts.org to schedule your 15-minute appointment by Tuesday, October 8.
2024 CURATORIAL TEAM:
A LITTLE HISTORY:
Planning for the Flower City Pottery Invitational began in early 2014 when area potters Matt Metz and Richard Aerni discussed bringing fellow esteemed ceramic artists together for a weekend exhibit, following the example of similar shows like the Old Church Pottery Invitational in Demarest, NJ, and the popular American Pottery Festival in Minneapolis. Rochester seemed like the perfect city to hold a similar event, being in the middle of a clay mecca, with RIT's School for American Craft and Alfred University close by, as well as strong clay programs in Syracuse and Buffalo. Metz and Aerni partnered with Flower City Arts Center and, together with artist Peter Pincus, invited colleagues from around the country to participate in the inaugural event in October 2015.
