Ceramic
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Materials The Ceramic Program offers fabrication at a variety of scales and provides access to technical expertise and equipment. Specializing in sculpture utilizing techniques such as wheel-throwing, hand-building, slip casting, on-premise firing, 3D ceramic printing, bespoke glazes and finishes, among other processes, we offer cross-disciplinary applications with our other material shops, including services such as printmaking on clay.
Services

PROJECT MANAGEMENT
From design concept to project planning and management, we offer consultation services to artists at any stage. We are available to produce prototypes, small-run editions, and also to undertake installation work and large-scale sculptures.

SCULPTURE & HAND BUILDING
Our sculpture and hand-building technical expertise is wide ranging and adaptive. Our team applies expertise in classical sculpture, including anatomy and realism, technical proficiency in tiles, mosaics, and installations, as well as furniture, light fixtures, among other needs. We tailor our skillset to your particular artistic vision.

WHEEL THROWING

CERAMIC 3D PRINTING
Using a state-of-the-art Potter Bot we offer artists flexibility in designing and 3D printing with clay.

MOLD MAKING & SLIP CASTING
Mold making and slip casting can be applied to production of highly-detailed editions and also to the creation of unique sculptures. We are adaptive in our application of tools, processes, and techniques to suit the artistic vision of a given project. Should your project require specific slip casting or press mold needs, please include pertinent information in the Project Inquiry Form upon submission.

SURFACE DECORATION
Specialized techniques include sgraffito, terra sigillata, maiolica, inlay, decal, slip trailing, (precious metal) lustre, among others.

GLAZING
We offer professional glaze application by hand and via spray glazing, which is recommended for sculpture as it offers a smooth car paint finish. We offer over 20 proprietary and commercial glazes to choose from and can also formulate custom glazes tailored to your artistic vision.

GAS FIRING
Coming in 2021

ELECTRIC FIRING
Bisque & Oxidation | Up to Cone 10. With access to two kilns and a customized firing process that involves close collaboration with our clients, we offer flexibility and adaptive firing needs for projects of all types.

Pricing for independently fabricated work is available on the Firing Services page.

Biata Roytburd, Director of Ceramics. Photo: Albert Vecerka/ESTO.

We offer contactless firing and glazing services as an added resource to artists and community studios that wish to fabricate artistic projects independently. If you are an artist and would like Powerhouse Arts to fire and/or glaze your work, please follow the link below.

About Our Firing & Glazing Services

Featured Project Artist Bruce M. Sherman commissioned Powerhouse Arts to fabricate a series of ceramic sculptures for a new body of work entitled Infinite Columns. The works reference Brancusi’s Infinite Columns and assert a connection between the earth and the celestial realm in their prominent verticality.
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Bruce Sherman, Earth/Heaven Heaven/Earth, 2020. Installation view. Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, NY. Courtesy of the artist.
Featured Project Artist Bruce M. Sherman commissioned Powerhouse Arts to fabricate a series of ceramic sculptures for a new body of work entitled Infinite Columns. The works reference Brancusi’s Infinite Columns and assert a connection between the earth and the celestial realm in their prominent verticality.
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Featured Project Performa approached Powerhouse Arts in May of 2020 to create an edition of porcelain vases for Barbra Kruger as a follow up to her acclaimed Performa 17 Commission Untitled (Skate) where Kruger created a series of merchandise in the guise of a Supreme “drop”. The exhibition involved large text-based vinyl “pastings” as a site-specific installation at Coleman Skatepark in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
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Untitled (Vase), Medium: Glazed porcelain, 10 inches tall x 4 inches wide. Edition of 100. Image by Alistair Matthews.
Featured Project Performa approached Powerhouse Arts in May of 2020 to create an edition of porcelain vases for Barbra Kruger as a follow up to her acclaimed Performa 17 Commission Untitled (Skate) where Kruger created a series of merchandise in the guise of a Supreme “drop”. The exhibition involved large text-based vinyl “pastings” as a site-specific installation at Coleman Skatepark in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
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Featured Project In March of 2021, Sophia Wallace commissioned Powerhouse Arts to create Swan Series, described by the artist as “an open edition of cast sculptures in stoneware and terracotta which takes inspiration from the natural world, specifically swans in motion, budding orchids and emerging succulents. It is the latest of Wallace’s ongoing project to invent an iconography of the clitoridian” and can best be described as a work of contemporary feminist art.
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Swan Series in black opal by Sophia Wallace. Image courtesy of the artist.
Featured Project In March of 2021, Sophia Wallace commissioned Powerhouse Arts to create Swan Series, described by the artist as “an open edition of cast sculptures in stoneware and terracotta which takes inspiration from the natural world, specifically swans in motion, budding orchids and emerging succulents. It is the latest of Wallace’s ongoing project to invent an iconography of the clitoridian” and can best be described as a work of contemporary feminist art.
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Featured Project Artist Leah Raintree approached Powerhouse Arts in 2020 to formulate a glaze and fire works for Clearing, a series of ceramic drawings using found materials from Raintree’s childhood home on a small farm in rural Virginia.
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Before Clearing, 2.2, 2020 4 ½ x 9”, iris ash, wood ash glaze, Virginia clay soil on porcelain
Featured Project Artist Leah Raintree approached Powerhouse Arts in 2020 to formulate a glaze and fire works for Clearing, a series of ceramic drawings using found materials from Raintree’s childhood home on a small farm in rural Virginia.
More about this project, All Featured Projects