"Art is an expression of inspiration articulated thru material."
Greetings from the farm and looking forward to 2026 with an exciting array of pottery studio tours and gallery exhibits. “Sticks and Stones,” an exhibit of porcelain vessels inspired by the interplay of form, line and color observed in my farm landscape will be at Abel Contemporary thru February. NCECA ceramic conference will be in Detroit this year and look for my work at “Ma and Pop Up” show featuring Colleen Riley, Donovan Palmquist, Al Holen, Jack Troy and Tony Clennell, some of my favorite clay makers. My first pottery tour for 2026 is The Clay Collective, May 2-3, as a guest of Michael Schael and then joining Nancy Gardner at her studio in Forest Park for the Northern Illinois Pottery Tour June 6-7. I’m returning as a guest artist at the Cannon River Pottery Tour, August 15-16 at Colleen Riley and Donovan Palmquist’s studio and the Twenty Dirty Hands Pottery Tour, October 16-18.
My work will be featured in Minneapolis at Northern Clay Center in June, and “Art of Possibilities,” May 26 thru July 3. As one of the artists in the first “Voices from the Warehouse” 2006 show, I’m exhibiting an installation piece in The Dubuque Museum of Art revisit exhibition “Voices - What Now?,” opening June 12.
The long delayed reopening of my web shop is near but in the meantime, please support the wonderful galleries that feature my work or contact me by email for special orders.
The Stone Barn Arts hosted its first visiting artist in 2025 and I am looking forward to inviting more artists, especially print makers; please contact me at delores@fortunapottery.com for details.
You’re always welcome to visit, the prairie flowers and wetland ponds are a delight.
Click here to view photos and follow the progress of the Stone Barn Arts project.
Forming function is a dance, often a tug-of-war between thought and object making.
Add to this dialogue the sheer joy of working with clay as materially responsive as porcelain and surfaces only possible through glass fusion and a dynamic is created which has become a life-long fascination.
