7 River Lane, Sperryville, VA
In Copper Fox Antiques building
River District Potters is comprised of four potters – Sara Adams, Susan Hornbostel, Doris Jones and Nancy Nord – joyfully making functional and artful ceramics. We welcome visitors to see our work and the potters at work in our studio and gallery which is located in the Copper Fox Antiques building located at 7 River Lane in Sperryville, VA.
Each potter views making pottery from a different perspective and that is reflected in our unique work. Making pottery offers us an outlet for our creativity and a balance between the right and left sides of our brains, as well as an escape from the hustle/bustle of everyday life. Ceramics/pottery is a diverse medium of expression and offers an ever changing source of joy in creating objects from clay.
Three of the potters are participating in the 2021 show at the Gay Street Gallery:
Sara Adams
Sara currently creates pottery by hand building. She loves to feel the clay take shape from her hands. Sara is always learning and experimenting, making new shapes with clay and color combinations with the glazes. Sara took workshops with Jeanne Drevas which is where the four River District Potters converged. Sara also works at the Guy Mason Rec Center and has worked at Glen Echo Pottery in DC. Sara learned how to throw pots with Susan Jacobs at Eastern Market Pottery in DC. To expand her skills and ideas, Sara participated in workshops conducted by Michael Hough, Emily Schroeder, Liz Zlot Summerfield, Jayne Shatz, Lana Wilson and others.
Doris Jones
Doris has taken classes in hand building with Jeanne Drevas, Liz Zlot Summerfield, Lana Wilson, and Jayne Shatz. More recently Doris has taken classes in Charlottesville with Randy Bill and Steve Palmer. She likes creating funky teapots, pitchers and a variety of cups, bowls, platters and a few pigs, chickens and geese. She has been living in Rappahannock County for over 25 years, enjoying this beautiful vibrant county.
Nancy Nord
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Nancy currently creates both wheel-thrown and hand built pottery. She loves to paint on her pots and uses the clay as a canvas for fruits, vegetables, herbs and the other culinary treats that the pots may eventually hold. She has worked at Glen Echo Pottery, and studied at Penland School of Craft, and with Rappahannock potters Suzanne Zylonis and Jeanne Drevas. She finds that pottery provides a creative outlet from the stresses that life in the DC area can throw at a person.