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Beth Morean, well-known artist and philanthropist, has taken the next step in her 40-year quest to solidify St. Petersburg as a top destination for ceramic artists and continues to build on the ever-evolving expansion of the city as a worldwide arts destination in all mediums. Originally relocating to the area for family business reasons, Beth quickly fell in love with the clay community in...

A springtime tradition at Standard Clay is the annual High School Students Exhibition at the ClayPlace@Standard gallery.  Area art students and their teachers look forward to selecting their best pieces, showing them to a wider audience, and facing the scrutiny of a professional juror.  This year’s juror, Jerry Wagner, is a paradoxical mix of artist and technician who is not only an accomplished potter...

Forty-two years ago, Danielle McDaniel walked out of a Parks and Recreation Department pottery class and embarked on a journey that would touch the lives of countless Nashville school children and residents.  With very little formal training, McDaniel combined her can-do attitude with an innate understanding of the human need to create, to develop what is today’s “The Clay Lady’s Campus” at Mid-South Ceramic...