Functional Ceramics
Ryan Burch
RYAN BURCH CERAMICS STUDIO INFO
I’m pleased to invite visitors into my showroom for the 45th annual Putney Craft Tour. I’m located at 3 Great Meadows Ridge in Putney, VT
I’m looking forward to showcasing 300+ new pots that I’ve made over the course of the past 3 months. New work includes some new mug forms, pouring pots, tea pots, and … 100 porcelain pots!! I haven’t thrown porcelain pots sincr 2015, and I’m really excited to share this new line of work with you all at the Tour!
If you’re unable to attend the tour in-person, please join me for my 2023 Holiday Websale on my website, which will go live in early December! Exact date is TBA! If you would like to sign up for an email reminder about my websale (as well as a top secret discount code for FREE SHIPPING) simply head over to my website and enter your email into the form on the home page!
As always, if you have questions about commissions, lessons, or to schedule a studio visit, please send me an email at ryanburchceramics@gmail.com
CONTACT Ryan
Adress: 3 Great Meadows Ridge, Putney, VT 05346
Phone: (802) 258-8007
Email: ryanburchceramics@gmail.com
Website: ryanburchceramics.com
Instagram: @ryanburchmakes
I’m a potter and teacher born and raised in Southern Vermont. I make functional stoneware pottery intended for daily use.
Creating utilitarian objects that aid in the daily tasks and routines of everyday life has become the most direct method of articulating my value systems and philosophies to the world.
For me, making with my hands has always seemed to be the most sensible and authentic contribution I can make to the world.
utility and connection
Even without the use of language, handmade utilitarian objects can succinctly express and translate the world’s most basic principles and can connect individuals who may have otherwise remained unattached.
This potential bond is what drives my desire to make and allows me to envision my work influencing traditional customs and activating the contemporary imagination.
I attempt to entice the modern public by creating utilitarian forms that refer to history but also provide an earnest, eccentric, and forward-thinking tone.
By working with this intention, I hope to promote awareness and appreciation of material, process, and product.
I strive to reconnect individuals with the source of the commodities and objects they live with and use on a daily basis.
It is my belief that by building a stronger connection between maker and user, and a more thorough understanding of this relationship, we will ultimately discover a living system that is deeply gratifying.