Clarice Allgood

I came to my craft by way of many hands. I joined an open studio in Decatur GA in 2013, benefiting from peer mentoring, lovely and rare. Attending a handful of weekend workshops, I then sought longer stretches of instruction first at Penland in 2016, then Anderson Ranch in 2017.  In 2018, after several informal residencies in Massachusetts, missing snow, and excited to join the 2018 advanced certificate program MN NICE at Northern Clay Center, I relocated to Minneapolis. I can't say enough about MN NICE and program director Ursula Hargens, but you can read more about the program here.  I continually refer back to notes taken during time spent with Ursula Hargens, Mark Shapiro, Sam Taylor, Linda Christianson, Steve Rolf, Ernest Miller,  Ronan Peterson, and Julia Galloway.  

The “Mostly” in “Mostly Good Pots” reflects my allergy to hyperbole and superlatives.  In a fuller, more productive sense, “Mostly” refers to the intoxicating undefined space between certainty and risk involved in any creative practice, between where I am and where I’m going.   As an artist, writer, potter, I experience a deep, ineffable pleasure in stretching between the known and unknown. Each creative effort feeds and demands the next.