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“I Always Wanted to Love My Job”: How This Ceramicist Built a Business From Her Basement

All Fired Up is our Shop’s monthly handmade ceramics drop, curated by Food52 and sourced from small and local makers. This month, we’re highlighting the work of Oregon-based artist Petra Kaiser.


For most people, stumbling across a pottery wheel on Craigslist might warrant a click—maybe even a little daydream. But $300? That’s probably a scam, right? For ceramicists, though, that’s an insane deal. You’ve got about ten minutes to decide.

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Meet Emily Christopherson, the Maker Behind EMRIS Ceramics

All Fired Up is our Shop’s monthly handmade ceramics drop, curated by Food52 and made by small and local makers. This month, we’re featuring Chicago-based artist Emily Christopherson of EMRIS studio.


For a lot of artists, the dream is that someone—maybe a professor or a curator—spots their work and says, “You’ve got it.” Realistically, that rarely happens. But for Emily Christopherson, it kind of did.

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Meet Allison Shawn, Founder of SOMBRA Ceramics Studio

All Fired Up is our Shop’s monthly handmade ceramics drop, curated by Food52, and all from small and local makers. This month, we’re featuring LA-based artist Allison Shawn of SOMBRA Studio Ceramics.


For Allison Shawn, it wasn’t a question of if she was going to run her own business—it was simply a question of when. And maybe what too. If you’d told her in college—or even five years after—that ceramics would be her future, she probably wouldn’t have believed you.

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