Events
Saratoga Clay Arts Center presents “clay AND,” an exhibition of sculptural works exploring how artists combine clay with other media to deepen and expand the meaning of their work.
A duo exhibition featuring the ethereal and playful vessels of Leah Kaplan and Yuko Nishikawa. Coddiwomple is an English slang that is defined as traveling in a purposeful manner towards a vague destination. The word reflects the artists’ approach to making, which embraces exploration and discovery, unintended and surprises included, in the process.
A River by Another Name unites the ceramic practices of 2025-26 artists-in-residence Shannon Owo and Riley McManus around a shared idea: taking what has endured for ages and reimagining it through ceramic forms. Owo's sculptures reframe Korean folktales and mythology through her lived experiences, while McManus draws from the textures of ancient seabeds to build functional and sculptural ceramics. Together they ask what it means to carry the past forward, finding new forms in old currents.
A joint exhibition by 2025–26 artists-in-residence Ava Tesoriero and Jess Levin, featuring work that invites viewers to reflect on the way we take root, evolve, and flourish over time. Both artists explore themes of connection, transformation, and the beauty of the unknown.
For millennia, ceramic artists across cultures have looked to the natural world as a source of inspiration—drawing from the beauty, symbolism, and life-giving qualities of plants. From ancient storage jars adorned with leaf motifs to contemporary vessels echoing organic growth and structure, botanicals have remained a vital wellspring of creativity in clay.
Saratoga Clay Arts Center’s Schacht Gallery presents Objective Form : Subjective Disorder, a duo exhibition featuring functional and sculptural ceramic works by local artists Maria Rosenblum and WD (David) Pitney. The exhibition will open on March 21 st with an opening reception from 5-7pm and continue through May 2, 2026. Light refreshments will be served. Admission is free. The exhibition will also open in our online Schacht Gallery SHOP at 5pm on March 21 st at 5pm.
Saratoga Clay Arts Center’s Schacht Gallery presents VOXELS: Clay as Data Holder, a group exhibition guest curated by CT artist Adam Chau featuring nine clay artists who explore the intersection of ceramics, digital manufacturing/culture, and information. The exhibition will open on February 7th with an opening reception from 5-7pm and continue through March 14, 2026. Light refreshments will be served. Admission is free. The exhibition will also open in our online Schacht Gallery SHOP at 5pm on February 7th at 5pm.
Curator Adam Chau states, “Just as voxels, a 3 dimensional pixel, construct digital worlds, the featured artists treat clay as a unit to hold data. In a world where information is often immaterial, Voxels asks: What does it mean to inscribe data in matter?”
Chau selected nine emerging, mid-career and established artists who explore digital spaces in their works: Audrey An, Eliza Au, Carole Epp, Sin-Ying Ho, Lisa Lockman, Mia Mulvey, Megumi Naitoh, and Ellen Schön. The exhibition will showcase a broad spectrum of ceramic approaches, incorporating an array of digital tools and techniques in works ranging from vessel-based and functional forms to sculpture and installation.
Join us on January 31 at the Saratoga Springs City Center for SCAC’s 13th Annual Chili Bowl Fundraiser — a day full of community, tunes, and of course, chili!
Tickets available January 1, 2026
Saratoga Clay Arts Center invites their Members to submit their best current work for our Annual Members Exhibition.
Saratoga Clay Arts Center’s Schacht Gallery presents CLAYFEST, a national invitational exhibition celebrating the holiday season with a compilation of incredible functional pots and decorative works by twenty established clay artists from across the country. The exhibition opens on Saturday, November 15th with a public opening from 5-7pm and runs through December 30, 2025. The work will also open online in our SHOP at 5pm on November 15th.
The exhibition will be a beautifully diverse exhibition of functional and decorative pottery – cups, mugs, bowls, teapots, pitchers, vases, jewelry and more.
Participating artists include Mary Black, Jenni Brant, Nathan Bray, Andrew Clark, Bethany Cohen, Martha Grover, David Kwak, Jess Levin, Keok B. Lim, Cheyenne Mallo, Liz Mazurek, Riley McManus, Melissa Mytty, Be Rose, David Sackett, Michelle Summers, Ava Tesoriero, Sandra Torres, Evelyn Ward and Shannon Webb.
Rain Harris and Paul Donnelly have been in tandem since 1999 – as makers, and in life. Through graduate school, residencies, jobs, moves and multiple transitions of work, they have been working together in the same studio since 2012, and what is interesting is that their approaches are very different visually, but they have a lot of overlap with their interest in the decorative and the transformation and merging of materials into something new. They both have an interest in interpreting built and natural environments into their work, with Rain taking a more sculptural approach and Paul a more functional one.
Join us this Saturday, August 30, for the opening reception of “An Artist’s Journey: Regis Brodie” to celebrate the life and work of Ceramic Artist and former Skidmore College professor, Regis Brodie.
Regis Brodie (1942–2024) created work that balanced classical vessel forms with painterly, abstract surfaces. Salt-fired textures, gestural mark-making, and a mix of restraint and spontaneity.
His work lives in collections worldwide — from Barcelona to Korea — and in museums across the U.S., including the Tang Teaching Museum. Beyond the studio, he was a devoted educator and author, leaving a lasting legacy in the ceramics community.
Rebecca Fox and Julianna Doughtery share the upcoming ceramic show “Perceived Structure,” with an opening on July 26, from 5-7pm. The show title refers to the shared curiosity both artists hold in built form, and how it can be manipulated, altered, or disfigured. Fox’s work features dark and earthy wheel thrown sculptures, which give a sense of nature reclaiming structure, or perhaps infecting structure. Dougherty’s work emphasizes the geometric and symmetrical world, with vibrant colors and stark lines created using 3D printing and digital rendering. Both artists will be showing a combination of abstract sculpture and functional ceramics, available to view and purchase between July 26-August 22.
In the culmination of their residencies at Saratoga Clay Arts Center, Christina Riccio and Jess Levin explore the emotions that accompany grappling with the uncertainty of the world we live in. Utilizing both figurative sculpture and functional pottery, these artists come face to face with grief and a declining society through an absurdist lens. Both playful and morose, this work portrays a sense of self- reflection, childlike wonder, and melancholy.
Juried by Lorna Meaden. Morning meals are a cornerstone of our daily routines marking the transition from rest to activity, and the pottery we use during these moments plays a crucial role in setting the tone for the day.
Three potters, Harrison Levenstein, Turiya Gross and Andrew Sartorius, come together in this trio exhibition to explore the enduring relevance of traditional wood firing methods and the intricate relationship between maker, material, nature, and place.
Featuring botanical sculpture by three local talents: Audrie Sturnan, Joann Axford and Cheryl Horning
Join us for the 12th Chili Bowl Fundraiser, February 1, 2025, from 11am to 2pm at the Saratoga Springs City Center.
We want to take this opportunity to welcome all our members to exhibit their talents and just ask that you bring a piece to the gallery that has been made in the last year.
Our annual national invitational exhibition of utilitarian and decorative ceramics celebrating the holiday season.
Join us for this specal duo exhibition featuring new utilitarian works by NY artist Alison Palmer and MT artist Sue Tirrell.
A solo exhibition of handbuilt functional pottery by Massachusettes potter, Mary Barringer.
Since prehistory, the horse has fascinated artists. Saratoga Clay Arts Center is thrilled to celebrate the horse in this due exhibition of sculptural works by Michigan artist Jeri Hollister and New York artist Shauna Fahley.
A solo exhibition featuring the bright functional works of 2023-24 Artist in Residence Christina Riccio
EXHIBITION STATEMENT
My vessels are intrinsically connected to the world that exists in my memories. The surface contains the landscapes I have envisioned, inspired by brief moments. Surfaces ranging from simple geometric surfaces to intricate traditional Goryeo Celadon motifs form my desired visual and tactile textures. My existence between the general and ceramic cultures of Korea and America is my primary source of questions and dilemmas that I present through the hybridization of traditional form and the dynamic surface. Using traditional form allows me to create a canvas to blend traditional imagery with Western glazes to create a familiar landscape that contains the same questions of belonging as a Korean American.
This exhibition is heavily influenced by my love of Goryeo Celadon and Western soda firings. I based the shape of my cups on an Onggi jar, which is used to ferment and age kimchi, Korean chili paste (Gochujang), Korean mung bean paste (Doenjang), soy sauce, and many other food items. The inside of the Onggi contains food, while the outside of the pot’s surface contains the atmosphere of the environment around the jar. Although the outside of the jar might change depending on where it is, the contents will continue fermenting and aging until the time is right to enjoy the food that it contains. Much like how we have a persona for the public, our environment changes how we act and react. But when we return to our home, what we eat in comfort and for pleasure makes us who we are. It is the contrast between what we project outside and what we keep inside that makes us complex and unique.
Our 5th annual national juried exhibition, COLOR POP!💥, curated by California potter and artist Didem Mert. COLOR POP!💥 will feature functional or vessel oriented ceramic works that utilize color theory to express thoughts, ideas, and emotions.
In UNFOLD, the artists will explore the ceramic medium each in their unique way, one by erupting large and small ceramic vessels and creating volume from the inside out, the other by painting with colorful glazes on flat ceramic shapes assembled in surprising configurations. Both convey a similar feeling of fluidity and gestural expression unfolding and conversing with other forces.
Tickets are $25 and include a handmade bowl (plus tax). Tickets go on sale January 1st on EVENTBRITE. You can bring 2 non-perishable food items for Wilton Pantry and save $2 on your ticket. Guests can choose from 3 time slots and have the opportunity to purchase more bowls onsite.
Saratoga Clay Arts Center’s Schacht Gallery presents its 12th Annual Members Exhibition. Celebrating 12 years with our clay community, this exhibition will feature ceramic sculpture, utilitarian and decorative works made by current SCAC Members in the past year.
Our annual holiday invitational exhibition of functional and decorative ceramics featuring 22 artists from across the country.
Saratoga Clay Arts Center’s Schacht Gallery presents “Resonance,” a solo exhibition of sculptural wall works by NY artist Sarah Heitmeyer. The exhibition will open on October 7th with an opening reception from 5-7pm and continue through November 11, 2023.
A solo exhibition featuring the sculptural vessels byTexas artist Adam Knoche.
