Warehome Studios Gallery Featured Artists

Julie Anderson

Julie Anderson a sculptural ceramic artist and founding director of Warehome Studios, a community educational space for ceramics and glass in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Her work is influenced by the mountain environment as well as her background in biology. She creates detailed wall sculptures and objects that explore movement and rhythm in nature. Using glaze color gradients and negative space, Anderson expresses growth and change in organic forms. She develops texture and pattern on the surface of each component, often carving or eroding the clay so that the ceramic glaze highlights every minute detail.

With a deep connection to the natural world, I know that being outdoors is crucial to my well-being and to my practice as a ceramic artist.  Curiosity and a love of biology inform my artistic vision.  I utilize my observations of nature to create artwork that feels alive.  In my sculptural wall installations, I explore how plants and animals move in the wind and water and how ecological systems are comprised of many reciprocal relationships.  Organic curves and negative space mimic the growth patterns and randomness found in nature’s delightful chaos.

Click here to explore Julie’s website and extensive portfolio. Smaller sculptural and functional works can be purchased online here or you can schedule a time to view Julie’s works at the Warehome Studios Gallery. Contact Julie directly at info@warehomestudios.com.

Jason Bohnert

Jason Bohnert is a studio potter based in Flagstaff, AZ. His work is grounded in the rhythm of work cycles, natural materials, renewable resources, and community engagement. Jason completed his MFA at West Virginia University, including study and apprenticeship opportunities in China, studio assistantship at Penland School of Crafts, followed by a residency at the Energy Xchange. After ten years teaching ceramics, drawing, and design at NAU, Jason is re-engaging his full-time studio practice. Recently installed solar panels offset most of the electricity for living and studio practice. When not designing, building, and making, Jason can be found on his mountain bike enjoying nature. See Jason’s web site here.

Rooted in utilitarian vessels and an Asian folk aesthetic, Jason's work strives toward a strong sense of form, craftsmanship, and user experience. He works in high-fire stoneware/ porcelain custom clays in atmospheric kilns, creating strong forms with intentional surface textures to embellish flame and ash work in reduction-cooled, wood-fired kiln processes. This work reveals dark and iridescent flame patterns of crystals and ash glaze, painted by fire traveling through the kiln and recorded on the vessels surface, Jason also works with red Earthenware clay and terra sigilatta with vibrant inclusion stains, reflecting the desert palette of his Northern Arizona home. These desert inspired teapots and daily wares are fired to cone 04 in solar offset electric kilns.