Prairie Grove, AR, 72753
USA
A chronological listing of upcoming classes, workshops, art fairs, and exhibitions
It’s our last sale of 2024! Join us and lots of local makers for this festive day of not-so-last minute shopping!
10 - 5 at the Fayetteville Town Center!
Visit Dowd House Studios and get a peek into the place where all the pottery comes from!
Munch on cookies and snacks while browsing all our pottery 2nds as well as anything left from our inventory… it’s (almost) the last sale of the year!
Also, we will have a small art garage sale! We’ve got some old art supplies & materials & books - all good stuff, just things we don’t need or are not using!
108 W Graham St
Prairie Grove, AR, 72753
Parking is interesting! We live in a neighborhood so please be considerate when parking, there are side street options and our small driveway will be available.
Over 250 local makers, one EPIC day at Arkansas' biggest makers market! Everything made in NWA by people who live in NWA.
Make plans to visit the Washington County Fairgrounds in Fayetteville Arkansas on Sunday November 3rd as local artists, makers, and craftspeople of all kinds show off and sell everything from unique art to handmade furniture, EVERYTHING locally made by people who live in Northwest Arkansas!
Sunday November 3rd, 2024
9a-5p
Over 250 local booths!
Local coffee trucks, food trucks, & beer garden
Kids Activities
Dog Friendly
Indoor/outdoor event, rain or shine
Admission: $5 at the gate
Kids 16yrs & under free
We are in the Adult Arts Building!
Jenny’s tiny bookshelf sculpture is included in this year’s Holiday Art Show at the Radius Gallery in Missoula, MT!
Visit this link to see a virtual tour of the show, or if you are in the area be sure to stop by!
https://www.radiusgallery.com/holidayshow/main/
Join us and other local makers for a pop-up craft sale in the tasting room at Fossil Cove Brewery. Sip some brews while browsing our new pottery!
We are excited to participate in the Homegrown Festival again this year!
Located in historic downtown Siloam Springs, the Homegrown Festival showcases locally handmade goods, curated vintage, food trucks, and live music. Vendors offer an array of original, one-of-a-kind, and limited-run items including illustration, printmaking, music, jewelry and accessories, handmade goods, salvaged and repurposed goods, and hand-picked vintage.
Saturday, October 5th
9am – 5pm
First Thursday is a vibrant, free monthly arts & culture festival brought to you by Experience Fayetteville. From May through October of each year, the event features live music, a robust vendor market, community activations, group bike rides, and different activities based around a new theme each month! October is Technicolor.
We are so excited to participate, come by and see a selection of our handmade pottery!
Dowd House Studios will be a vendor on this Terrific Tuesday Night at the Botanical Gardens of the Ozarks! Join us and other local makers, for food, music, and gardens!
Terrific Tuesday Nights is a family-friendly, free, summer series hosted at the Garden every Tuesday evening in June and August. This series allows the Northwest Arkansas community to experience the Garden on beautiful summer evenings free of charge, thanks to the Pat & Willard Walker Foundation, Inc. Guests enjoy different activities & themes each week, like Amazing Animals, Ice Cream Social, Sprinklerfest, and more!
First Thursday is a vibrant, free monthly arts & culture festival brought to you by Experience Fayetteville. From May through October of each year, the event features live music, a robust vendor market, community activations, group bike rides, and different activities based around a new theme each month - September’s theme is Dog Daze.
We are so excited to participate, come by and see a selection of our handmade pottery!
We will be taking part in our hometown arts & crafts fair - The Clothesline Fair!
Find us in the Battlefield State Park in Prairie Grove:
Saturday & Sunday 8am - 5pm | Monday 8am - 3pm
Our Art | Our Region is the 4th annual exhibition hosted by the Walton Art Center that highlights the visual art of NW Arkansas. Jenny’s ceramic sculpture, Tiny Desk Adventure, is part of this exhibition.
Opening Reception: August 30, 6-8pm
Joy Pratt Markham Gallery Hours
Monday-FRIDAY | 10AM to 2pm
Gallery will open 60 MINUTES prior to most performances and remain open up to FINAL CURTAIN OF most performances
Gallery admission is free
More Info: https://waltonartscenter.org/visual-arts/joy-pratt-markham-gallery/our-art-2024/
Private gallery tours may be scheduled in advance by emailing visualarts@waltonartscenter.org. Please arrange your tour at your earliest convenience. We request three business days’ notice to schedule tour guides.
Have you been curious about different types of clay? This wheel class will cover a little of the history and mystique of porcelain while comparing throwing methods for stoneware and porcelain. Jenny teaches through demonstrations to show you correct throwing posture, centering, and forming a variety of shapes. This class will also cover some of the surface design techniques that Jenny loves to use on porcelain: sgraffito, inlay, plus a few different ways to apply glaze and how this is different on different clays. This class is designed for students with no prior experience and focuses on teaching students the fundamentals of throwing, however, porcelain is a challenge so if you are new to clay we will begin the basics using stoneware. If you have taken other wheel classes, but always wanted to try Porcelain, this is a great class is for you!
Sign up at the Community Creative Center
Have you been curious about different types of clay? This wheel class will cover a little of the history and mystique of porcelain while comparing throwing methods for stoneware and porcelain. Jenny teaches through demonstrations to show you correct throwing posture, centering, and forming a variety of shapes. This class will also cover some of the surface design techniques that Jenny loves to use on porcelain: sgraffito, inlay, plus a few different ways to apply glaze and how this is different on different clays. This class is designed for students with no prior experience and focuses on teaching students the fundamentals of throwing, however, porcelain is a challenge so if you are new to clay we will begin the basics using stoneware. If you have taken other wheel classes, but always wanted to try Porcelain, this is a great class is for you!
Sign up at the Community Creative Center
Learn a new skill together with your partner, friend, or family member! We will walk you through the wheel throwing process together. No clay experience necessary but dress for a mess! Clay, glazes, and firing fees are included. Ages 18 & up.
Taught by Jenny this one-night class is an easy way to try out the wheel with a friend!
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This teeny tiny sculpture made by Jenny will be on display in the exhibition “Small Favors” at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia. Each artwork in this show was required to fit within a 4x4” plexi cube.
https://www.theclaystudio.org/exhibitions/small-favors-two-thousand-twenty-four
This class will concentrate on pottery forms to fast fire with a Raku kiln. The class will throw on the wheel the first 3 weeks of the class, working on bottles, jugs and vases. The last 3 nights of class we’ll explore fast firing techniques with horse hair, feathers and Obvara. We’ll also fire our ware in traditional Western Raku to produce the white crackles and crazy copper blues and oranges. Principles of firing in the Raku tradition will be covered, as well as the history of Obvara – a Baltic region technique that produces wonderful patterns that can look like animal prints or wood.–Prerequisite: Wheel 1, or fundamental wheel throwing skills
Taught by Sam, Sign up at the Community Creative Center
Have you always wanted to try wheel throwing Porcelain? Join our wheel class for beginners that will teach you all the basics of making your own cups and bowls. Jenny teaches through demonstrations to show you correct throwing posture, centering, and pulling up cylinders. This class will also cover some surface design techniques, such as: sgraffito, inlay, and a few different ways to apply glaze. This class is designed for students with no prior experience and focuses on teaching students the fundamentals of throwing. If you have taken other wheel classes, but always wanted to try the challenge of Porcelain, this is a great class too!
Sign up at the Community Creative Center
Find us at the Time Travelers Vintage Expo at the Rogers Convention Center in Rogers, Arkansas!
For lovers of all things retro & groovy.
Showcasing 100+ vendors offering vintage and vintage inspired clothing, home goods, handmade items, + more!
More info to come…
Learn a new skill together with your partner, friend, or family member! We will walk you through the wheel throwing process together. No clay experience necessary but dress for a mess! Clay, glazes, and firing fees are included. Ages 18 & up.
Taught by Jenny this one-night class is an easy way to try out the wheel with a friend!
Sign up at the Community Creative Center
Sprigging, carving, water etching - these are just a few methods to personalize clay surfaces. We will cover a variety of techniques to add visual and tactile texture to the surfaces of your pottery in this short workshop as well as a quick demonstration on how to glaze or stain these surfaces once bisque fired. We will be working with damp and leather hard clay, tiles will be provided and you may bring pottery with you.
Taught by Jenny
Sign up at the Community Creative Center
Learn a new skill together with your partner, friend, or family member! We will walk you through the wheel throwing process together. No clay experience necessary but dress for a mess! Clay, glazes, and firing fees are included. Ages 18 & up.
Taught by Jenny this one-night class is an easy way to try out the wheel with a friend!
Sign up at the Community Creative Center
Have you always wanted to try wheel throwing Porcelain? Join our wheel class for beginners that will teach you all the basics of making your own cups and bowls. Jenny teaches through demonstrations to show you correct throwing posture, centering, and pulling up cylinders. This class will also cover some surface design techniques, such as: sgraffito, inlay, and a few different ways to apply glaze. This class is designed for students with no prior experience and focuses on teaching students the fundamentals of throwing. If you have taken other wheel classes, but always wanted to try the challenge of Porcelain, this is a great class too!
Sign up at the Community Creative Center
Join Sam as we explore and create sculptural creatures, real or otherwise, from clay using the pinch, coil and slab techniques of hand building. Subject matter will be open and Sam will give plenty of demos and support you as you get creative and confident building larger forms. Surface decoration will also be covered and you may expect to learn about stencils, painting, slip, stains, sgraffito, and inlay.
Class meets for 6 weeks, sign up at the Community Creative Center
This class is all about adding pattern and drawings to pots as we explore slip monoprints and other methods for design transfer. We will be working on leather hard clay with slip and underglaze, bring some damp pots with you but there will also be stoneware and porcelain tiles available for you to practice on.
Taught by Jenny
Sign up at the Community Creative Center
Learn a new skill together with your partner, friend, or family member! We will walk you through the wheel throwing process together. No clay experience necessary but dress for a mess! Clay, glazes, and firing fees are included. Ages 18 & up.
Taught by Jenny this one-night class is an easy way to try out the wheel with a friend!
Sign up at the Community Creative Center
In this workshop you can make a sweet for your sweetie or just for yourself. Learn the basics of handbuilding with clay to make a cupcake lidded jar.
We will use porcelain and techniques such as: pinch, coil and slab to make realistic and fantastic looking delicacies. After you decorate your clay treats with brightly colored underglazes, Jenny will fire and add a clear glaze to make your sweets bright, shiny and irresistible.
$45 Workshop fee includes instruction and all materials. Finished piece will have to be collected the following week after firing.
This class is taught by Jenny
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Take the surfaces of your pottery to the next level with sgraffito and inlay techniques. We will cover the basics of underglaze and slip while exploring several methods for sgraffito and inlay. We will be working on leather hard clay – porcelain and stoneware – bring some damp pots with you but there will also be clay tiles available for you to practice on.
Taught by Jenny
Sign up at the Community Creative Center
Learn a new skill together with your partner, friend, or family member! We will walk you through the wheel throwing process together. No clay experience necessary but dress for a mess! Clay, glazes, and firing fees are included. Ages 18 & up.
Taught by Jenny this one-night class is an easy way to try out the wheel with a friend!
Sign up at the Community Creative Center
Dig deeper into wheel throwing as Instructors guide you towards making pottery that you can use everyday! Building upon basic skills, students continue to explore wheel throwing techniques including taller cylinders, pulling handles, refining rims and trimming. Students are encouraged to explore cup and bowl forms. Students will be introduced to basic glazing techniques. Students who have the basics down will begin to develop their skills towards more refined forms.
Sign up at the Community Creative Center
Taught by Sam
Join Sam as we explore and create sculptural creatures, real or otherwise, from clay using the pinch, coil and slab techniques of hand building. Subject matter will be open and Sam will give plenty of demos and support you as you get creative and confident building larger forms. Surface decoration will also be covered and you may expect to learn about stencils, painting, slip, stains, sgraffito, and inlay.
Class meets for 6 weeks, sign up at the Community Creative Center
