What is Morehouse Studio?
We are creating connection in our community with pottery classes and workshops. We also do a few pop up shops around town to get the goods out there!
Our mission looks like…
Having fun teaching and bringing people together through workshops, classes, and pop up shops.
Getting to know our students and artisans as they put their art into the world.
Helping our students get to know how they create as they learn more about the specific way they are creative.
Creating space for people to get to know one another and make new friends.
Making opportunities for artisans to share what they are created to do with their community.
What is open studio?
Open Studio Times
Open studio is when current students and members can come in to play and practice! This isn’t a time where you will be taught by a teacher even though they will be there.
What are your values?
lavishly // a sumptuously rich, elegant, comfortable, enjoyable (especially in a way that involves great expense) manner.
We believe that understanding what we have been given in this life is essential for us to live our lives lavishly. This truth establishes in us a place of fullness and wholeness from which we are then free to create and give.
WE GET TO LEARN! // to fail is to succeed in the process of learning.
This process of possibility and humility shapes each great work of art.
Create // to shape or form something that was not there before; to transform something old into something new
We all create - in a sense we are all artists/makers. Each and every one of us has a creative spark. Part of creating is taking the old and renewing, transforming, and restoring it. When we make and create, we are speaking into the world with shaping power.
beautiful
It’s through the mistakes that we learn how to craft something beautiful. The action and gesture of making a beautiful thing speaks into someone's life, home, and space-- aesthetically, practically, and emotionally. Being able to create something lovely that points people to the More is our hope.
Our Vision
Our vision is to know who we are and how we are loved, so we can create from a place of rest.
Receiving the GIFT OF LIFE WE have been given.
Cherishing OUR LIFE AND THE GIFTS we’re given so we can bring them to others.
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Lexi croce
Founder, Teacher, and Artisan Potter
Maggie newman
Studio Manager and Artisan Potter
Tiffany johnson
Studio Assistant, Teacher, and Artisan Potter
Artisans with Products Listed
Lexi croce
Lexi Hutchins, lover of light, planted in Charlottesville, Virginia. A visual artist, potter, and ever a child of curiosity. The passion for living actively and creatively has compelled her to thoughtfully examine and vividly express the world around her through art. As a self-diagnosed collector of craft, Lexi’s trained those hands (or maybe they’ve trained her) well. Some days they’re a calligraphist’s hands, some days they’re a sculptor’s, most days they are a painter’s. Every day they are an artist’s.
"ARTIST STATEMENT"
One simple summer day, riding down the highway to sneak off to the sea the question floated along, “why do I create?” As I sat still with sunshine wind coming through the windows, the answer fell right into my lap.
‘Relationships.’
It’s always been about relationships for me, I see it as the foundation of everything. As a kid, my family was a bit like a painting palette, colorful, messy and didn’t make much sense. Constantly I wondered how I could one day have a healthy family. There were many trips to the library hoping to find an answer. I would make towers of books as a kid, notebook in hand, ready to learn!
Painting is this place for me. I can be intentional, focused, listening, loud, in pain, in love on the canvas. It is the place I process my relationships with the land, the animals, our cities, other people, and my best friend, Jesus. Ceramics is a different story altogether. It’s as if it is a person, someone I miss and learn all about the metaphors of life. There is a connection to the dirt because of the clay, my other favorite place. It is limitless and more often than not, the clay helps to create what it will become.
Side note, my family is like one of my paintings now - intentionally made, a work in progress, and filled with love and goodness. It’s amazing what can happen when we believe in what seems impossible.
Jacqui Stewart
Jacqui Stewart is a maker and designer of furniture and functional goods who lives outside of Charlottesville, Virginia. She is interested in the ability of objects to speak into the world around them. Even the most simple and ordinary object can bring beauty and significance to a space or a task when it is made with careful attention to form and detail. Her work brings elegance, warmth, and utility to everyday spaces and experiences.
"ARTIST STATEMENT"
I finished art school and became a maker of functional things. In a sense, I see the whole of my life as my practice, and making is a tangible, active part of that. As human beings, our actions speak into and influence the world around us. They impact individual lives, our communities, and the culture at large. Material objects do a similar thing. My work, and my life, are successful when they love people well, contributing to community, bringing healing to lives and hearts, and restoring the health and wholeness of culture and relationships.
Each of my pieces are handcrafted. They are clean and simple in form, so as not to distract, yet harmonious in design and constructed with acute attention to detail to create a comfortable and hospitable environment in which people connect. My work tells the story of its making; it will mature to tell the story of its use; and, when fulfilling its intended purpose, it will facilitate the sharing of many life stories, between people and, hopefully, between cultures.