Kelly Allen

Visit us on Saturday, March 28 from 11am to 2pm for our Spring studio tour and open house. Visit the blog for info and directions.

The Southside Pottery Workshop Left to Right: VC Copper Blue-Green, VC Cobalt Blue, VC Taffy We are slowly developing our glaze palate . The glaze kiln that came with the building is Bailey's down-draft gas kiln. An overwhelming percent of my highfire experience is with wood cross-draft and down-draft kilns. Learning to fire with gas (propane) has been challenging, but I think I finally have the hang of it. There were some glazes in the building when we bought it, but I clearly need to learn...

Hello! My name is Kelly and each month I'll share with you updates about the workshop, the Jeff Kleckner Archive, and the goings-on in our neighborhood. The Southside Pottery Workshop Kelly at the wheel Owen making pots The potters of Southside Pottery are myself (Kelly) and my friend Owen. We are both educators who have been working with clay for a few decades, or more. We met in a pottery class roughly 14 years ago and quickly realized that we are both drawn to many of the same ceramic...