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Two completely immersive and intense, but ridiculously wholesome weeks spent at @andersonranchartscenter ✨ ⛰️

Year one of three as part of their Advanced Mentorship Studies Program in Ceramics, surrounded by an amazing cohort of individuals from across the country, and two fantastic mentors @audrey.an and @shojisatake 💞💞 I’m still processing how beautiful, experimental and productive this time has been and can’t wait to see how this program grows with all of us.

Huge thanks to @betsyalwin and the entire Ranch team for having me, and developing such a strong program.

#ranchmade by @studio_apop

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This hands-on course introduces students to foundational techniques in ceramic handbuilding, including pinch, coil, slab, and simple bisque mold making. Students can choose to create functional or sculptural forms while learning surface decoration and glazing techniques. Demos will include advanced options for those looking to explore further—such as underglaze monoprinting with newsprint, building up forms with slip, and making custom ceramic press and sprig molds. Whether you're new to clay or returning with fresh ideas, this course encourages craftsmanship, curiosity, and personal expression through the full ceramic process—from wet clay to finished, fired work.

Registration link in bio! by @studio_apop

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Oops, long overdue shots of my installation at Tracing Time last month in Providence✨

Only Desperate Remedies, 2026
Stoneware, glaze, wood, grout, oxides, grog, auto flake, paint, sea shells, plaster, metal coating and patina

Broken Cartouche, 2026
Paper pulp, hardware

Curated by @sara.aahli in the wonderfully historic Stedman Lofts. 🏭

📸 @cal_green by @studio_apop

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Tracing Time is opening this Thursday, June 18 in Providence 💫 🌸🌺🌼🪸🏛️

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Tracing Time proposes that buildings, like bodies, shift through time - absorbing, shedding, and carrying the communities that occupy them. Presented within the historic Stedman & Fuller Manufacturing Company Complex, the exhibition explores how histories persist through memory, material, and place.
Across sculpture, painting, photography, glass, and material-based practices, participating artists examine memory as something physical: held within bodies, embedded within objects, and dispersed throughout the spaces we inhabit.
Through acts of excavation, collection, and layering, the works reveal how experience becomes inscribed within material and architecture.
Fragments, impressions, recordings, and accumulated forms become evidence of lives both present and absent, tracing the movement of memory across body, object, and place. Together, the works ask what remains after change and how traces of former lives
continue to shape the present.

Curated by @sara.aahli and generously supported by @risca1967 🩶 by @studio_apop

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After first exhibiting with us at CODE&CRAFT, we’re delighted to welcome Ana Popescu (@a_pop) back for Cluster Crafts: 10 Years.

Ana’s sculptural ceramic works sit at the intersection of craft, technology, memory, and architecture. Combining 3D scanning and printing with traditional handbuilding techniques and historic lustre glazes, she creates layered forms that feel at once ancient and contemporary, playful and thought-provoking.

Her work explores how objects carry stories, how histories are preserved and transformed, and how material culture shapes the way we understand ourselves and the world around us.

We were captivated by @a_pop’s practice when she joined us for CODE&CRAFT, and it’s a pleasure to share her work again as part of this special anniversary exhibition.

There’s still time to experience her pieces in person and discover the remarkable range of artists featured in the showcase.

📍 @rocalondongallery , designed by @zahahadidarchitects
📅 Open until 17 June
🎟 Free RSVP via link in bio

Selected works are also available to collect through our online shop. by @studio_apop

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His arch < MY arch... meant for conviviality and introspection, tinged with an unsettling realness masquerading in an uncanny scale, draped in glittering iridescence… a thing that feels like a hug or a wink ;)

A dismantling of the legacies of conquest and authority attached to ornate and monumental structures. Never forget the highly skilled artisans and craftspeople who spent hundreds of hours chiseling away at every molded acanthus or cartouche.

Long overdue, but apropos timing — photos from our opening reception at OPEN in February. 🌹

Photos by @rachelmaevephotography ✨

Tăcut Ca O Cioară Vopsitǎ (Silent Like A Painted Crow), 2026
Ceramic, glaze, wood, venetian stucco, paper pulp, pigment, adhesive, auto flake, gold, silver and copper leaf, paint, fine and coarse grog, hardware, sketches and research, 11 loud speakers, spot lights

An evolution of my thesis work, with new pieces and a site-specific sound composition by Christopher Mayes-Wright, continuing the story of The Arch and The Looking Glass: Umbli Cu Cioara Vopsită. 🏰🔊💎 taken in Providence, Rhode Island by @studio_apop

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This little baby is headed to the Annual Cup Show @mudflat_studios 💞🐚🦪☕️🦪🐚🌊

I’m so excited to be included alongside so many incredible makers in their historic and beautiful space. A true New England ceramics institution!

Opening reception is Friday, March 13th from 5-7pm and the show runs through April 19th. ✨

💙 taken in Mudflat Pottery School by @studio_apop

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Still teeming with energy from this night ✨

We had an incredible opening for our first collaborative installation. We met so many new friends and truly felt the love from the community.

Huge thanks to Ben Sisto of OPEN for having us. What he’s building with the gallery feels so refreshing and pivotal at this moment in the art world.

Big shout out to @michaelrosefineart of @newenglandartnews for collaborating on the reception with Drinks with Artists. We fell in love with PVD for it’s community, and seeing all the connections and crossovers bubbling is truly what makes it all worth it 🫂

And of course, the wonderful @hibarlobar made this freaky Friday the 13th @50simsri , right before Valentine’s Day, extra special 🍹🌹💌

Beautiful photos by @travislemire 📸 and incredible drawing of the night by @tomdamoreart 🖼️

Check out OpenForever.org for opening times and info 🌍

#studioapop #apop&bond by @studio_apop

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Next Week! The Arch gets to breathe new life. This time in an awesome space at OPEN @50simsri , and with a site-specific sound composition by @cal_green 🔊🏰🔊

Hope to see you there, on Friday the 13th of lovers weekend 💘👼🪽🐺🐦‍⬛❤️‍🔥

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2nd studio shot by @ebar.photo
3rd installation shot by @ol_eggart by @studio_apop

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Functional fine art? Yes please! Explore @studio_apop’s incredible collection of trinket trays, exclusively at Bloom until the end of the month! Each piece is wildly unique and a true work of ceramic art. taken in Shop Bloom PVD by @studio_apop

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