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JOANNA POWELL ARTIST TALK that took place on September 27 is now available on our website! Thank you @kehalulie for allowing us to use these brilliant images of @joannaleepowell dressed as her alter ego for the current exhibition CRYING IS JUST WET LAUGHTER (on view until October 24).

Excerpt from Joanna:
“This clown character is my alter ego. You can be anything you want when you put on a mask, and you can feel different things or be who you want to be. So I got dressed up, drove to Anaconda, and posed. A lot of it is about grief….within the last 10 years, all of my family has passed besides my siblings.

My dad was a junk collector... he found so many beautiful things. A lot of trench art, you know the bullet casings that were made into vases— that’s the kind of thing I’m interested in: awkward beauty, or beauty comes from something horrible.

My dad also made crown and bridge work, so our basement was just filled with plaster models of people’s teeth. He never threw them away like someone else would. There was just a pile of all of Dallas’ mouths. And we’d go down there and mix up plaster and play with it… and my mom had this balloon business in the basement, too.

We would also just eat as much candy as we could consume while we were down there. It was such a charmed but dysfunctional childhood, I guess. Maybe it’s the dream, but it’s kind of fucked up.”

Read the full talk online! taken in Deep Vellum Books by @joannaleepowell

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The first image is from Joanna Powell’s studio in Helena, Montana. And the others are of her work “Green Cat” in the current exhibition. Joanna is originally from Dallas and will be joining us this Sunday for the closing reception of “Crying is Just Wet Laughter.”

“I believe humour is integral to the work. I play all the time in my head with misunderstandings of language that I experience on a day-to-day basis, which comes out in the work. I feel humor is just as important as embarrassment in my work. I sometimes feel like I don’t fit anywhere and would just as soon run out into a field until I can’t run anymore. This anxiety, it’s a human feeling that is awkward, strange and funny all at the same time.“
- Joanna Powell, from an interview with Metal Magazine taken in Deep Vellum Books by @joannaleepowell

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25 days ago

Join us this Sunday, September 27 from 5-7pm for a closing reception of CRYING IS JUST WET LAUGHTER
Co-hosted by @deepvellumbooks

Address: 3002A Commerce St. Dallas, TX (above Deep Vellum Books)

Reading (& zine release) by Basil Baird
Performance by @siobhan27_
Artist q&a with @joannaleepowell
Music by @blondebill

Event Emcees @chuckandgeorge

Followed by an OPEN MIC!! Bring something to read or perform that’ll make us laugh or make us cry (or both)!

Light snacks & bevvies to be provided

Flyer made by @blondebill 💕💕

🤡🎪🎡🤹 taken in Deep Vellum Books by @joannaleepowell

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On view in the exhibition CRYING IS JUST WET LAUGHTER

JOANNA POWELL
Black Cat, 2025
Earthenware, majolica
12.5 x 5.5 x 4”

3002A Commerce St. Dallas, TX
On view until September 27, 2026
Our regular hours return this week! Thursday - Saturday 12-5pm

Joanna Powell (b.1981, Dallas, TX) received a BFA in ceramics from the University of North Texas (2008) and received an MFA in ceramics from the University of Colorado at Boulder (2012). Powell has exhibited her work throughout the United States including The Archie Bray Foundation, The Clay Studio Philadelphia and Greenwich House Pottery in New York City. From 2013-2015 she was a long term-resident at The Archie Bray Foundation. In 2015, she was named an NCECA Emerging Artist. Powell currently lives and works in Helena, MT.

@joannaleepowell taken in Deep Vellum Books by @joannaleepowell

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2 months ago

Introducing 2026 Montana Clay Tour guest artist Joanna Powell.

Through her work, Joanna offers a glimpse into how she sees the world. Using tableau, she subverts and rewrites stories around gender, sexuality, and humility. Her pieces are autobiographical—moments of joy, struggle, and silliness all find their way into the work. For Joanna, the physical gestures she gives to clay are the most direct translation of interior feelings into external expression. Her practice continues as a meditation on life, loss, and the quiet minutiae that unfolds in between.

Find Joanna and her work at Iva and Perry Haas’s stop on the MCT! For further details on dates and locations, just click the link in our bio.
#handmade #ceramic #pottery #madeinmontana #shoplocal taken in Clancy, Montana by @joannaleepowell

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7 months ago

We are OPEN today through Sunday, 12pm - 5pm. Only a few more weeks to catch our current exhibition, Company: Contemporary Tableware and Lighting, in collaboration with the duo of Above Board Ceramics.

@aboveboardceramics

All sales are ‘cash and carry’ (all forms of payment accepted) or you can shop online via link in bio. www.aboveboardceramics.com

Exhibition closes Sunday, March 29th.

Image:
Joanna Powell
@joannaleepowell taken in Headstone Gallery by @joannaleepowell

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7 months ago

Clown about town. Thanks Keha for a day of make believe. @kehalulie #joannapowell #goodgrief by @joannaleepowell

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8 months ago

These @joannaleepowell fruit cups are “so sweet”! 🍓🍇

Check them out in the Cuptopia exhibition which is going on right now.

#artstreamnomadicgallery #mugsmugsmugs taken in Artstream Nomadic Gallery by @joannaleepowell

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3 years ago

If you’re in NYC, journey to the @chairishco art gallery on the 7th floor of Bergdorf Goodman to see a collection of my ceramic sculptures and work from over 30 other artists. The work is on view through April 8th 🌞 Many thanks to @chairishco @amandacmorse and @bergdorfs #joannapowell #chairishxbergdorfgoodman #artinnyc #tastemaker #contemporaryart #artandstylenyc #fashion #poodles taken in Bergdorf Goodman by @joannaleepowell

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Cats are powerful. #morethanjustacat #catpurrpower #joannapowell 🐈‍⬛♥️🐈 by @joannaleepowell

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3 years ago

I love this piece. It embodies what it is to take care. Take care of yourselves out there. Hold on tight. #compassion #listening #hearing #joannapowell by @joannaleepowell

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Many thanks to Brandon Reintjes @brandonreintjes and Ceramics Monthly @ceramics_monthly for making this beautiful article possible.💕I’m feeling over the moon with gratitude. #joannapowell #ceramicsmonthly #heckyeah by @joannaleepowell

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