Next Up: Wild Arts Festival Dec 7th & 8th
Online Restock December 12th
-January-open to commissions
-April 13 & 14 Northwest Art Alliance: Best of the NW-Seattle, WA
-April 19-Spring Online Restock
-June 21-23- Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts
-Sept 13-Fall Online Restock
-Nov 2-Nov 30 15th Annual Cup Show at Kobo Gallery Seattle (This is a large group show, where I will have four pieces on display and for sale.)
-December 7 & 8- Wild Arts Festival-Hillsboro, OR
-Dec 12-Winter Online Restock
2024
Pots are available for sale through an online shop on this website (with in-studio pick up and worldwide shipping) several times annually (early, mid, late year) and at a few rotating in-person art festivals and open studios.
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Finishes
Glazes are formulated in-house
and fired in an electric kiln.
Plover- Matte, moderately-opaque, cool white over black stoneware. The organic movement of the glaze during application alludes to the black clay underneath, especially along rims, somewhat mimicking an atmospheric firing. The texture is less satiny that the other two finishes, more stone like
Pipit- Warm gray, semi-translucent satin-matte. Somehow the coziest of the finishes, if there is a way that makes sense, the glaze movement and dark stoneware make an electric oxidation firing more resemble a wood or gas firing. Edges and rims often appear “toasted.”
Ink- The most uniform of the three glazes, developed from a different base. A satin-matte finish over black stoneware with some movement, the most translucent of the three. glazes. Recently reworked for a truer black.
Smoke Fire
Into the actual fire.
These pit fired pieces are something quite special.
Thrown in a light porcelain stoneware mix clay and fired once in the studio, these were then tucked into individual pouches of aluminum and sprinkled with organic material from the chicken coop: pine shavings containing droppings, feathers, grain and seeds, and dried leaves and clippings from the garden. They then went into a wood fire pit and were entangled in layers of smoke, penetrating bare clay the combustibles igniting to create depth and masking to produce negative space in turn, giving impressions reminiscent of multiple exposure abstract sepia photography but using smoke instead of light.
LULA Pottery is Carisa Miller and a flock of chickens in a backyard garden pottery studio since November 2018.
Photos and videos of potter (and chickens) in action are rampant and strangely popular on Instagram and are accompanied by a good bit of observational humor and AuDHD commentary. A YouTube channel is underway as of summer ‘24, including some longer form videos and LULA Pottery: For Your Ears, an audio series (podcast) on pottery, wrapped in existentialism.
Carisa’s work is minimal, prioritizing form and function. Lines are clean, and surface decoration scant. The pieces create an organic impression by utilizing black, locally produced stoneware under neutral tones of semi matte glaze formulated in-house. The pots are meant to blend into their surroundings as quietly beautiful, intimate and essential companions.
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$5 of every LULA Pottery purchase of $35 and over goes directly to the World Central Kitchen providing emergency food relief to populations in crisis.
Since opening shop in November 2018, your combined LULA purchasing power has contributed $1,545 to the World Central Kitchen,$3,600 to the Natural Resources Defense Council $410 for the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services $1,080 for the International Rescue Committee $1250 for Planned Parenthood and the National Network of Abortion Funds through raffle-to-win-pottery and portion of sales fundraiser events.
That’s $7,885 of your giving as of October 2024.
Thank you