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

24 June 2025 at 02:27

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

20 May 2025 at 19:53

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

10 April 2025 at 22:26

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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