Ceramic Artist, Workshop Presenter, Ice Dyer, Soapmaker, etc.
Lecture: "A Breeze Through the History of Art"
Jacksonville Public Library
June 17, 2025, 2:00 pm
Jacksonville, Alabama
Lecture: "A Breeze Through the History of Art"
Gadsden Main Public Library
June 2025, TBA
Gadsden, Alabama
Visiting Artist at the Penland School of Crafts
for Steve Loucks class
September 21-26, 2025
Penland, North Carolina
"Stack 'em Up and Decorate"
Team workshop with Steve Loucks
October 26-31, 2025
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
RECENT EVENTS:
"Carving to Your Heart's Delight"
Alabama Clay Conference,
Hands-on Mini Workshop
Sunday Presentation, February 2, 2025
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
"Layers and Textures"
Dual exhibition with photographer, Mark
Boughton of Nashville, and my mushroom
and fungi cluster sculptures
January 1-31, 2024
River Gallery
Chattanooga, Tennessee
"Serving with Finesse" with Steve Loucks
January 19-26, 2025
John C. Campbell Folk School
Brasstown, North Carolina
Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced
"Improve your throwing and handbuilding
skills while making unique serving dishes for
special foods - shrimp cocktail, deviled eggs,
and your own favorites. learn how to enhance
bowl forms by darting, stretching, and
altering. Embellish them with carvings, sprigs,
lids, and or handles. Pieces finished in time
will be glazed and fired to cone 6 in the electric
kiln while we continue serving up more dishes!
Be prepared to transport some pieces home
unfired.
We are available to conduct workshops like
this for your group. See "Workshops" on the
Menu Bar above.
"Invitational Teapot Exhibition"
Mushroom Teapot
November 1-December 31, 2024
River Gallery
Chattanooga, Tennessee
"32nd Annual Strictly Functional Pottery
National, exhibition
*Second Place Award
September 27-November 9, 2024
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
"Faculty Exhibition"
Fall 2024
Jacksonville State University
Hammond Hall Gallery
Jacksonville, Alabama
"Alabama Atmosphere", exhibition
Alabama Clay Conference
February 15-18, 2024
Orange Beach, Alabama
"Carving to Your Heart's Delight"
Alabama Clay Conference
Sunday Presentation, February 18, 2024
Orange Beach, Alabama
Opening at Gallery@808
To see the pieces, please call 256.452.8213 to
make an appointment
February 20, 2024, 4-6 PM
808 4th Street, Gadsden, Alabama
"Altered and Embellished"
Georgia Clay Council Workshop
Demonstration workshop with Steve Loucks
April 13-14, 2024
Canton, Georgia
"Stack 'Em Up"
with Steve Loucks
John C. Campbell Folk School
Brasstown, North Carolina
"North Branch Nature Center
Fungus Exhibition"
September 23-December 2023
Montpelier, Vermont
"Carving to Your Heart's Delight"
October 28, 2023
Appalachian Arts Craft Center
Clinton, Tennessee
Hands-on carving demonstration and
workshop. For information, call 865-494-9854,
email: info@appalachianarts.net
"Serving with Finesse"
with Steve Loucks
June 4-11, 2023
John C. Campbell Folk School
Brasstown, North Carolina
"Carving to Your Heart's Desire"
June 3, 2023, 2:00
Mountain Potters
Hayesville Public Library
Hayesville, North Carolina
"2023 Juried Cup Show"
May 13-July 22, 2023
Hudgens Center for Art & Learning
Duluth, Georgia
"Serving with Finesse"
with Steve Loucks
June 4-11, 2023
John C. Campbell Folk School
Brasstown, North Carolina
"Bowl-ing with Cone 6 Glazes"
February 19-24, June 5-12, 2023
Dual hands-on and demonstration workshop
with Steve Loucks, making multiple styles of
bowls to alter, assemble, carve, embellish,
glaze, and fire. Includes glazing demonstra-
tions and discussions.
John C. Campbell Folk School
Brasstown, North Carolina
"Alabama Craft Guild Free Demonstration"
One-hour demonstration by seven artists
Organizer and participant
January 28, 2023
Huntsville Museum of Art
Huntsville, Alabama
"Faculty Exhibition"
Fall 2021, 2022
Jacksonville State University
Hammond Hall Gallery
Jacksonville, Alabama
"Drinking Vessels with Panache"
August 21-28, 2021
Dual workshop with Steve Loucks
John C. Campbell Folk School
Brasstown, NC
Check out thepotterscast.com/460
for a fun podcast about my husband
Steve Loucks' & my approach to
ceramics.
I am Contributing Editor again for the third
edition of the book:
"Glazes from a Potter's
Perspective: A Simple,
Kitchen-Method Approach
to Understanding Glaze
Development",
by Steve Loucks
To order, please call 256.435.4105 or
256.452.8213
or email hesserloucks@bellsouth.net.
The cost is $49 which includes shipping
and handling within the US, $75 to
Canada and $80 to Mexico. Other
international postage costs are determined
by the patrons actual shipping address.
Payment is made through a squareup.com
invoice sent to your email.
Please leave your email address, repeat
your phone number, and tell us how you
heard about the book.
For more information see "Glaze Book"
on the Menu Bar above.
I was honored to have been chosen again as a
2019 winner of the Alabama State
Council on the Arts Fellowship in Crafts.
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Where to buy my work:
Go to "Sales Booth" on the Menu Bar above.
Call to make an studio visit appointment.
Four Corners Gallery and Frame Shop
4700 Hwy 280, Suite 8
Birmingham, Alabama 35242
205.980.2600
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To contact me, please call 256.435.4105, call or text me at 256.452.8213, and/or email me at
about pieces that you are
interested in me making just for
you or to arrange an exhibition or workshop.
To visit our studio, call 256.452.8213 for an appointment to make sure we are here. We love visitors as we are opening new kilns with new
work all the time.
Our studio address is:
1092 Seven Springs Road
Wellington, Alabama 36279
We are in the beautiful countryside of
Alabama twenty minutes south of Gadsden,
two hours west of Atlanta, two hours south of
both Chattanooga and Huntsville, and one and
a half hours northeast of Birmingham.
Shipping is available for pottery purchased at
the studio and online and for my gorgeous
handmade shopping bags, hand dyed t-shirts
(images available by request and size) and my
all-natural Seven Springs Cream Soaps, Solid Lotion, and Lip Gloss.
(click on "More" then "Soap" on the Menu Bar above), La Fleur Rose Solid Lotion, and Lip Gloss.
