Featured Potters

Peggy Clarke’s pottery is in the gallery for the month of January. Peggy, as many of you know, is one of the three owners of La Mano. She is highly skilled and hands-on in the many facets of the business and is teaching a class at the studio this semester. She uses many techniques and […]

Diane H Waller is our featured artist for November, and her work will be on display at the studio throughout the month. There will be a reception on November 14th from 4-6 pm–save the date!   Artist’s Statement The visuals that inspire me most are the human figure and nature in its abundance. Living in

Jessie Lazar is the potter of the month for September. Her opening reception and sale will be at the studio on September 11th from 7–9 pm. Artist’s Statement I love that pottery is about being centered I love that something so amorphic and squishy becomes stone and glass I love to walk in the streets

Barbara’s work will be on display in the gallery and front window throughout July. Artist’s Statement Clay has sung its siren song to me nearly from the cradle, though I didn’t start potting until I was 15. I’ve lost and found myself in its intoxicating melody on and off for many years. Mud is in

Nonna Hall is the potter of the month. Her artist’s reception will be at the studio on June 12 at 7–9pm. Artist’s Statement Although I am relatively new to pottery (only two and a half years), I know for certain that it is now a significant part of my existence. It’s like I found a

Sacha Jones is the potter of the month for April. Artist’s Statement Pottery for me is like a resting place, a place to get out of my head and breathe.  It’s corny to say it’s about getting centered, but there is such a truth to that cliche for me.  It is at the pottery studio,

Diane Hardy Waller is the current potter of the month. Her work, shown below, will be on display at the studio through the end of February. Artist’s Statement Creativity is a driving force. It flows through me like magic. Everything is an opportunity to think and feel differently about materials, people, myself, nature and God.

Peggy Clarke is our featured artist this month. In the window of the studio and in our gallery, you can see an array of Peggy’s recent work which includes a study of small porcelain teapots and a series of large hand-coiled vessels that Peggy calls her “yoga bodies”. Here is how she describes these pieces

The work of Bob Pesce is on display in the front window and the gallery this month. Bob Pesce is a display designer and native New Yorker who mastered the use of a potter’s wheel at age fourteen and hasn’t stopped yet.  His undergraduate work at Pratt Institute and the art department  at Brooklyn College