100 Search Results for chili bowl

Chili Bowl 2021

Feb 01, 2021

On February 27th our beloved Chili Bowl Fest Fundraiser returned as a fully online bowl sale! For over two decades, this event has been a celebration of ceramics and community and has become a staple of Rosendale’s public festival schedule. To continue in this tradition while adhering to New York State’s health guidelines around the… View Article

Chili Bowl Workspace Residency

May 29, 2015

The Chili Bowl Workspace Residency is an opportunity for potters who want to create their own work and participate in WSW’s Chili Bowl Fest, an annual fundraiser and our biggest community event of the year. Each February, WSW sells over 1,000 bowls, mugs, and tumblers at the Chili Bowl Fest to support the operations of… View Article

Chili Bowl Intern Profile: Mel Doiron

Feb 18, 2017

With our 20th Anniversary Chili Bowl only a week away, we wanted to catch up with one of the people making this year’s event happen: Chili Bowl Intern Mel Doiron. Since January, Mel has been a daily presence in our studio, and in only eight weeks she has produced hundreds of bowls for the big… View Article

Chili Bowl Intern Profile: Laura Casas

Feb 14, 2019

Our annual Chili Bowl fundraiser is right around the corner and we’re getting pretty excited! As always, the Chili Bowl Intern has played a big part in getting ready for this event. Laura Casas came to WSW after graduating with her BFA in December, and got straight to work in our ceramics studio. Her work… View Article

Chili Bowl Intern Profile: Bree Hendricks

Feb 19, 2018

This article was first published before the WSW’s 21st Annual Chili Bowl Fiesta, which has since come to pass. Breana Hendricks has been sculpting, throwing, and decorating bowls of all kinds during her Chili Bowl Internship at WSW, not to mention teaching classes and making her own work. During this busy season we found some… View Article

Chili Bowl Intern Profile: Allora McCullough

Feb 19, 2016

With our 19th Annual Chili Bowl only a week away, we wanted to catch up with one of the people making this year’s event happen: Chili Bowl Intern Allora McCullough. Since January, Allora has been a daily presence in our studio, and in only eight weeks she has produced hundreds of bowls for the big… View Article

Chili Bowl Intern Profile: Katie Bosley

Mar 26, 2015

Last month, WSW hosted another incredible Chili Bowl Fiesta. From start to finish, the Rosendale Community Center was brimming with guests enjoying chili in their new bowls, which were made by volunteers, our ceramics staff, and this year’s Chili Bowl intern, Katie Bosley. We welcome a new ceramics intern each January, who’s responsible for throwing and decorating a huge number… View Article

In the Studio: 2013 Chili Bowl Intern Britny Wainwright

Feb 13, 2013

Women’s Studio Workshop’s Annual Chili Bowl Fiesta is a beloved local event designed to burn-off the winter blues and refuel your inner furnace with great ceramics, fun music and a heaping dose of steaming chili. Every year the Workshop’s ceramics department gathers together a team of local artists and ceramicist volunteers to produce over 800… View Article

Converging Practices: Sarah Blackwell in the Studio

Apr 28, 2015

Amidst a landscape slowly emerging from the weight of winter, Chili Bowl Workspace resident Sarah Blackwell finds every excuse to work outside. Hands glowing with porcelain dust, she sands several hundred mysterious, hand-sized ceramic coils. “Clay has such a life of its own. It’s constantly shifting and warping. You want to force it to be… View Article

Surface Texture: Lydia Loy-Santelli in the Studio

Sep 28, 2018

Women’s Studio Workshop enjoyed a chat with Chili Bowl Workspace Resident Lydia Loy-Santelli about her path to ceramics, what inspires her, and advice for emerging artists. Read a bit of our conversation below! WSW You grew up with artists in the family, started learning photography, then fell in love with clay. Are there clear moments… View Article

Making Tech Material: Lise Prown

Aug 31, 2018

A squat ceramic jar sits in the sunlight, tranquil and smooth. Its surface is the color of cowhide. Its wide lip supports an astonishing domed lid, architectural in its striated surface. The knob sits triumphantly above. The lid is a bright red, and it’s made of plastic. The form vibrates with the tension between… View Article

New Faces at WSW: Spring 2015 Edition

Jan 22, 2015

Women’s Studio Workshop regularly welcomes new faces: resident artists, students, volunteers, and visitors are always coming and going. Every six months, we also celebrate the arrival of a new set of interns who quickly become part of the WSW community. Last week, we welcomed our first group of 2015, marking 30 years of our internship program!… View Article

Megan Sauve

Jun 01, 2015

Megan Sauve came from Chicago to work as a Chili Bowl Fiesta Ceramics Intern, making 700 bowls for WSW’s annual Chili Bowl Fiesta. She moved to the Hudson Valley, worked at the Center for Photography in Woodstock and then attended Syracuse University in the Arts Administration graduate program.