Events + Workshops
Upcoming
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NCECA 60th Anniversary Exhibition
March 24 - 27, 2026
Exhibition
Huntington Place Convention Center
Detroit, MIVolumes, 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.
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Expressive Form and Surface
June 5 - 6, 2026
Workshop
Porché Pottery & Arts Community Studio
Erwin, TNSuze 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.
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St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour
May 8 - 10, 2026
Pottery Sale
Matt Krousey Studio
St. Croix Valley / Shafer, MNSeven 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
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Eight McKnight Artists Exhibition
June 20- August 8, 2026
Exhibition
Northern Clay Center, Galusha Gallery
Minneapolis MNView 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.
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Inspired by History
July 31 - August 4, 2026
Workshop
Sugar Maples Center For Creative Arts
Maplecrest, NYDuring 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.
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Voluminous Vessels
August 23 - 28, 2026
Workshop
Adamah Art Studios
Dodgeville, WIFocus on developing and sculpting one of a kind vessels.
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American Pottery Festival
August 28 - 30, 2026
Educational Conference
Northern Clay Center
Minneapolis MNJoin 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.
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Paths of Clay
September 11 - 13, 2026
Workshop with Vince Montague and Suze Lindsay
Petaluma Pottery
Petaluma CAThis 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.
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Inspired: Árbol de la Vida
September 27 - October 3, 2026
Workshop
Paloma Clay Studio
San Miguel De Allende. MexicoInspired 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
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Pouring Vessels
February 7-9 2025
3 Day Workshop
Morean Workshop Space
St. Petersburg, FLWorking 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.
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St Croix Valley Pottery Tour
May 9 - 11 2025
Pottery Sale
Harris, MNThe 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.
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Indiana Clay Conference
October 4 - 5 2025
Demonstrator
Ball State University
Muncie, INJOIN 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.
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Visiting Artist
September 10 - 11, 2025
2 Day Lecture & Demo
University of Nebraska, LincolnDemo: September 10 & 11, Richards Hall
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Altering Form/Designing Surface
November 9-14, 2025
5 Day Workshop
Paloma Clay Studio
San Miguel De Allende, MexicoJoin 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
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Bowl-ing
June 17-21 2024
5 Day Workshop
Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences, Long Beach, NJJoin 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….
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CONTAF
August 7, 8, 9 2024
Presenter at the National Congress of Fire Art Techniques (CONTAF)
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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, NJThe 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…
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Altering Form & Designing Surface
April 19-21 2024
3 Day Workshop
The Kiln Studio & Gallery, Fairhope, ALIn this three-day workshop potter and instructor Suze Lindsay will work with students to take the pot out of the round…
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Influence/d
April 19 - May 31 2024
Exhibition
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Potters of Madison County
April 13 2024, 9AM - 4PM
12th Annual Potters MarketMarshall High Studios, Marshall, NC
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NCECA
March 20-23 2024
Conference Exhibitions
Richmond, VAThis 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
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Stacked Forms - Going Vertical
February 10 + 11 2024
2 Day Workshop
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MIThis 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…
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Not Yet: An Artist’s Oeuvre
February 8 2024 from 6-7PM
Lecture
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MIThis 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.
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Expressive Form and Surface
February 8 + 9 2023
Two-Day Demonstration
St. Petersburg College, Clearwater, FLSuze 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…
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Tackling the Ceramic Surface: Using Slips on Leather-Hard Pots
Recorded: February 11 2023
Two-Hour demonstration video
Frank Arts Virtual WorkshopsCurious 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…
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St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour
May 12 - 14 2023
Pottery Sale
St. Croix, MNThe St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour is an annual gathering of exceptional potters and pottery enthusiasts in the beautiful St. Croix River Valley of Minnesota…
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Voluminous Vessels: Handbuilt Forms from Paper Patterns
June 9-11 2023
Weekend Workshop
Double Island Studio, Green Mountain, NCJoin 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…
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Collaboration: Cultivation
July 16-22 2023
One Week Workshop
Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass, COHow 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.
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Spruce Pine Potters Market
October 14-15
Two day Pottery Sale
Cross St. Building, Spruce Pine, NCA 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.
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Wheel to Table: Altered Pots with Handbuilt Components
November 11-12 2023, 10AM-5PM
Two-Day Workshop
The Potter’s Studio, Berkeley, CAThis 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….
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Pottery for the Table
May 17-26 2024
9 Day International Workshop Intensive
Good Hope, JamaicaThis 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…