Events + Workshops 

Upcoming

  • NCECA 60th Anniversary Exhibition

    March 24 - 27, 2026
    Exhibition
    Huntington Place Convention Center
    Detroit, MI

    Volumes, the 60th conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA), explores material-driven experimentation and conceptual frameworks that animate art created through clay. The essential energy of voices and sounds of the Detroit region catalyzes this conference’s theme. 

  • Expressive Form and Surface

    June 5 - 6, 2026
    Workshop
    Porché Pottery & Arts Community Studio
    Erwin, TN

    Suze will move between the potters wheel and the table top, demonstrating a variety of techniques used to create forms that can be a combination of thrown and altered components with hand-built additions.  Many forms are taken out of the round and are stacked up on skirts, or feet, to create one of a kind vessels.  Join Suze for exploration and play, and bring your sketchbook for writing and drawing exercises that stretch ideas about 3D form and imagery. 

  • A group of potters in two rows, some crouching and some standing against a green summer-tree background.

    St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour

    May 8 - 10, 2026
    Pottery Sale
    Matt Krousey Studio
    St. Croix Valley / Shafer, MN

    Seven pottery studios will host Sixty-eight potters from twenty states. They will present months of handmade work for sale amid the hospitality of our local potters at their rural studios.
    Nationally recognized as an invitational gathering of distinguished potters, this event is an opportunity for anyone who appreciates handmade ceramics.

    Join Suze at the home studio of Matt Krousey

  • Artist Suze lindsay smiles at the camera from the waist up, wearing red glasses and an apron, a piece of in progress handmade pottery in front of her on the studio table.

    Eight McKnight Artists Exhibition

    June 20- August 8, 2026
    Exhibition
    Northern Clay Center, Galusha Gallery
    Minneapolis MN

    View the works of the six 2025 McKnight fellows for Ceramic Artists or McKnight Residency recipients—explore the results of their residencies and fellowships during this exhibition.

  • Inspired by History

    July 31 - August 4, 2026
    Workshop
    Sugar Maples Center For Creative Arts
    Maplecrest, NY

    During this session the throwing class, with instructor Suze Lindsay, will be collaborating with the hand-building class, taught by Margaret Bohls.  Suze and Margaret will share their own deep pools of historical inspiration with students.

  • Voluminous Vessels

    August 23 - 28, 2026
    Workshop
    Adamah Art Studios
    Dodgeville, WI

    Focus on developing and sculpting one of a kind vessels.

  • American Pottery Festival

    August 28 - 30, 2026
    Educational Conference
    Northern Clay Center
    Minneapolis MN

    Join us for the educational conference, sale, and exhibition. This years exhibiting artists include Sara Alfieri, Kurt Anderson, Marissa Childers, Sandra Daulton-Shaughnessy, Celia Feldberg, Stephen Heywood, Erica Iman, Samuel Johnson, Suze Lindsay, Andrew Mcintyre, Taylor Mezo, KyoungHwa Oh, Doug Peltzman, Lindsay Rogers, and Steven Young Lee.

  • Paths of Clay

    September 11 - 13, 2026
    Workshop with Vince Montague and Suze Lindsay
    Petaluma Pottery
    Petaluma CA

    This workshop will draw upon our own stories and imagery to generate new pathways for work through playful experimentation and improvisation. Each artist will share strategies and techniques to support ideas that come to us from writing  and drawing.

  • Inspired: Árbol de la Vida

    September 27 - October 3, 2026
    Workshop
    Paloma Clay Studio
    San Miguel De Allende. Mexico

    Inspired by the traditional Árbol de la Vida (Tree of Life) sculptural form originating in Metepec, this workshop focuses on the creation of candleholders and candelabra.

Past Events & Workshops

  • Pouring Vessels

    February 7-9 2025
    3 Day Workshop
    Morean Workshop Space
    St. Petersburg, FL

    Working on the wheel and tabletop, this class will explore a multitude of techniques for making pots that pour. This includes forms thrown on the wheel, hand-built, out of the round, and then assembling with components to enhance form, and experience utility of a good pour. 

  • St Croix Valley Pottery Tour

    May 9 - 11 2025
    Pottery Sale
    Harris, MN

    The St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour is an annual gathering of exceptional potters and pottery enthusiasts in the beautiful St. Croix River Valley of Minnesota.

    The studios are a short drive from each other, allowing some or all to be visited in a single day, and within an hour of the Twin Cities. Admission is free and open to everyone.

  • Indiana Clay Conference

    October 4 - 5 2025
    Demonstrator
    Ball State University
    Muncie, IN

    JOIN US for our 4th biennial clay conference highlighting the clay community in Indiana featuring Suze Lindsay, Richard W. James, Sarah Anderson, and Sam Chumley as demonstrating artists. Our featured Keynote Speaker is Bill Griffith, former Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts Administrator.

  • Artist Suze Lindsay stands against a great wall behind a large handmade pot with her arms bracing on the pedestal that the pot sits on.

    Visiting Artist

    September 10 - 11, 2025
    2 Day Lecture & Demo
    University of Nebraska, Lincoln

    Demo: September 10 & 11, Richards Hall
    Lecture: September 11, Sheldon Hall

  • Altering Form/Designing Surface

    November 9-14, 2025
    5 Day Workshop
    Paloma Clay Studio
    San Miguel De Allende, Mexico  

    Join Suze for exploration and play, bringing your sketchbook for writing and drawing exercises that stretch ideas about 3D form and imagery. Using slips on leather hard clay, we will focus on exercises to push and expand design ideas, developing personal imagery, and how to plan for the marriage of form and surface. Learn more

  • Bowl-ing

    June 17-21 2024
    5 Day Workshop
    Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences, Long Beach, NJ

    Join Suze for this 5 day hands on workshop focusing on bowls that change in size and utility, from small finger bowls, to larger serving bowls, to nesting bowls….

  • CONTAF

    August 7, 8, 9 2024
    Presenter at the National Congress of Fire Art Techniques (CONTAF)
    Sao Paulo, Brazil

  • Pottery on the Hill

    November 15 - 17 2024
    2 Day Pottery Sale
    Hill Center, Washington DC

    Pottery on the Hill is a weekend celebrating functional pottery (that which can be regularly used, such as dinnerware, drinkware, vases, platters, and more) featuring top ceramic artists from across the country…

  • Art School at Old Church

    December 6-8 2024
    50th Annual Pottery Show
    Demarest, NJ

    The Old Church Pottery Show & Sale began in 1975 as a fundraiser for The Art School at Old Church (TASOC). Long-time friends Karen Karnes and TASOC founder Mikhail Zakin wanted to connect their vibrant community of potters with the local area…

  • Altering Form & Designing Surface

    April 19-21 2024
    3 Day Workshop
    The Kiln Studio & Gallery, Fairhope, AL

    In this three-day workshop potter and instructor Suze Lindsay will work with students to take the pot out of the round…

  • Influence/d

    April 19 - May 31 2024
    Exhibition
    Martindale Gallery at Queen City Clay, Norwood, OH

  • Potters of Madison County

    April 13 2024, 9AM - 4PM
    12th Annual Potters Market

    Marshall High Studios, Marshall, NC

  • NCECA

    March 20-23 2024
    Conference Exhibitions
    Richmond, VA

    This year I am participating in several exhibitions and events connected with NCECA.

    NCECA EXPO: In Tandem Gallery

    The Road to Demarest: Antennae Gallery

    Women Working With Clay: A Shared Purpose: The Valentine

    A Field guide to the Birds of Cary Street: Northbank Partners

  • Stacked Forms - Going Vertical

    February 10 + 11 2024
    2 Day Workshop
    Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI

    This workshop focuses on pottery forms made using thrown and hand-built elements that will be altered and stacked to create vases, pitchers and covered jars…

  • Not Yet: An Artist’s Oeuvre

    February 8 2024 from 6-7PM
    Lecture
    Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI

    This lecture will serve as an overview of Suze Lindsay’s practice as well as an introduction to some of the themes covered in the workshop to follow on February 10th & 11th.

  • Expressive Form and Surface

    February 8 + 9 2023
    Two-Day Demonstration
    St. Petersburg College, Clearwater, FL

    Suze will move between potters wheel and table top, demonstrating a variety of techniques used to create forms that are a combination of thrown and altered components with hand built additions…

  • Tackling the Ceramic Surface: Using Slips on Leather-Hard Pots

    Recorded: February 11 2023
    Two-Hour demonstration video
    Frank Arts Virtual Workshops

    Curious about how to add depth to your glaze surfaces? This 2 hour zoom demonstration will include a variety of approaches to enhance your surfaces; from fluting and roping freshly thrown pots, to techniques used when applying slips to leather hard pieces…
    @frankartsdotcom

  • St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour

    May 12 - 14 2023
    Pottery Sale
    St. Croix, MN

    The St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour is an annual gathering of exceptional potters and pottery enthusiasts in the beautiful St. Croix River Valley of Minnesota…
    @stcroixvalleypotterytour

  • Voluminous Vessels: Handbuilt Forms from Paper Patterns

    June 9-11 2023
    Weekend Workshop
    Double Island Studio, Green Mountain, NC

    Join Suze for a weekend of exploration and play while hand building and decorating volumetric forms. Using your sketchbook and larger drawing paper as a springboard…

  • Collaboration: Cultivation

    July 16-22 2023
    One Week Workshop
    Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass, CO

    How do we develop and shape our ideas? This session’s wheel throwing class will be collaborating with Margaret Bohls’ hand building class sharing demoes and projects to generate ideas for pottery forms.
    @andersonranchartscenter

  • Spruce Pine Potters Market

    October 14-15
    Two day Pottery Sale
    Cross St. Building, Spruce Pine, NC

    A unique event showcasing this region’s talent in ceramics. The show represents a wide range of aesthetic and stylistic interpretations, from functional to sculptural pieces.
    @sprucepinepottersmarket

  • Wheel to Table: Altered Pots with Handbuilt Components

    November 11-12 2023, 10AM-5PM
    Two-Day Workshop
    The Potter’s Studio, Berkeley, CA

    This 2-day, hands-on workshop with Suze Lindsay will focus on taking pots out of the round, combining thrown and hand built elements to create playful functional forms….

  • Pottery for the Table

    May 17-26 2024
    9 Day International Workshop Intensive
    Good Hope, Jamaica

    This workshop is hosted by Doug Casebeer and David Pinto with visiting artists Margaret Bohls and Suze Lindsay.

    Travel to the north coast of Jamaica for a nine-day intensive workshop focused on pottery making techniques and design…