JERILYN VIRDEN

BOREALIS STUDIOS

Greensboro, Vermont

Ceramicist Jerilyn Virden creates intimacy through the vessel. Her career has carried her from a two-year apprenticeship with Silvie Granatelli in Floyd, Virginia, through many stops nationwide, into Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, where she and her husband, glassblower Devin Burgess, founded Borealis Studios near the Caspian Lake. Virden handshapes clay into graceful, pared-down, self-contained form. Virden’s work is in the permanent collection of the Asheville Art Museum and the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts.

SARAH JAFFE TURNBULL

Bridgehampton, New York

Sarah Jaffe Turnbull was a public defender and assistant district attorney in Vermont before arriving on Long Island’s East End. She discovered ceramics in 2002, moving from vessel to figurative, sculptural work in stoneware and porcelain, while also specializing in monotypes. Her art is open-ended, inviting entropy into her artistic intention, both in ceramics and printmaking.

ROBBIE HEIDINGER

Westhampton, Massachusetts

Ceramicist Robbie Heidinger describes her clay as having a "biosophy" — intentional, pliant, alive. Trained as a painter at NYU, she turned to clay in 1991 in search of a three-dimensional canvas, then earned an MFA in ceramics from RISD. She handbuilds organic vessels meant to be touched, fired in soda kilns, producing tightly focused abstractions of the tissues and structures of living things. A 2009 Massachusetts Artist Fellow, Heidinger has held residencies in Dehua and Shangyu, China, and has been shown from the Smithsonian Craft Show to Design Miami to the Armory.

LYNN READ

VITRELUXE

Portland, Oregon

Founded in 1999 by Lynn Read, Vitreluxe is a glassware company that uses soda-lime glass, a special glass making process that allows for slower creation time, resulting in truly unique bottles and vases. Read’s glass designs are informed by his earlier work in set-building, watercolor painting, sculpture, and woodworking which inspires the colorful transparency and illusion of movement in much of his glasswork.

HEATHER ROSENMAN

HEATHER ROSENMAN DESIGNS

Los Angeles, California

Originally from New York, Heather Rosenman currently lives and creates her ceramics in Los Angeles. Her vessels and sculptures are inspired by the long history of ceramics as well as modern design, to create minimalistic yet bold forms. Rosenman’s ceramics have recently inspired a line of textiles in collaboration with Kerry Joyce Textiles. Rosenman has been featured in publications including Architectural Digest, Dwell, Luxe, Elle Décor, Interiors, and Vogue Australia.

SOPHIE COOK

SOPHIE COOK CERAMICS

Suffolk, UK

UK-based ceramicist Sophie Cook started experimenting with fluid lines and shapes while attending Camberwell School of Arts. She works with porcelain in a variety of colors, continually experimenting with new glazes, to create her signature teardrop, bottle, and pod vessels. Cook’s minimalist forms make her work best displayed together in groups. Her vessels are featured in museum collections such as the Geoffrye Museum in London and the Denver Art Museum.