Women Working With Clay Symposium

Attending the symposium this summer? Submit your images before June 3rd!

We ask for 4 images of your work & 1 of you. You'll get the chance to introduce yourself and show off what you've made.

Use the link below to upload your pics or check your recent email from us!

https://webmgr.wufoo.com/forms/wwwc-symposium-participant-images/

One month away from welcoming everyone to WWWC 202C! Don't forget to submit your slideshow images by June 3rd and pick out your favorite piece to bring for the small object exchange.

2026 Participants should check their email for info regarding the small object exchange and how to submit photos for the attendee slideshow. Objects you bring should be no larger than 6" x 6" x 6". Images are due June 3rd.

Hollins University (which houses the Women Working with Clay Symposium) each year hosts an Artist-in-Residence. This spring, we were so lucky to have join us on campus for an entire semester. Dara taught a class to undergraduate students and will create a piece inspired by her time on campus that will be on permanent display on campus. These select images were from her exhibition opening at the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Hollins University and talk in February.

✨ 2026 Presenter Spotlight ✨

Our featured keynote this year is Dina Nur Satti. Satti is a Brooklyn-based ceramic artist of Sudanese and Somali heritage. Raised in France and Kenya, she holds a B.A. in International/Intercultural Studies from Fordham University, with a focus on the cultures of Africa and the Middle East.

Her pursuit of ceramics was born out of her studies in African art and precolonial African societies, and an interest in learning how ancient objects provide an insight into the migrations, beliefs, cosmologies, and communal bonds of a people. Through her sculptural vessels, she investigates ritual, transformation, and cultural memory with a focus on coil-built techniques and esoteric symbolism.

Satti has participated in exhibitions internationally, including at the Triennale di Milano (2025), Montague Contemporary (2025), Petrie Museum in London (2024), and Efie Gallery in Dubai (2025), as well as at 1-54 Art Fair in New York and Marrakech. Her work has been featured in Vogue, Whitewall, Interior Design Magazine, Business of Home, and Architectural Digest Middle East, which named her to its AD100 list in both 2024 and 2025.

She has been an invited lecturer at the Fashion Institute of Technology and Gasworks, and has held residencies with Saint Heron, Palm Heights and Petrie Museum.

We hope you can join us for her talk to kick off the symposium on Monday, June 15th.

💻 Visit www.hollins.edu/wwwc to learn more about Dina and the other 2026presenters!

You've done it again Clay Community! For the second year in a row we are excited and sad to announce registrations for WWWC this summer are closed.

If you didn't get the chance to register yet, you are more than welcome to join our wait list and we will reach out the moment a spot opens up.
More info on the symposium as well as the registration link can be found at: hollins.edu/wwwc

✨ 2026 Presenter Spotlight ✨

After 24 years working as a Professor in Ceramics at Penn State University, Liz retired and moved to West Seattle and has found her way back to life as a full time Studio Potter. She has led workshops at many schools including Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Penland, Arrowmont, The Archie Bray Foundation, and Anderson Ranch. Liz was lucky to have studied under Betty Woodman in the late 70’s where her love for decorative pottery was excited by ceramic history and and a youthful curiosity for cultural diversity as it takes shape around food served on handmade pottery. This foundation has become the backbone of her work.

While she is demonstrating, slab built porcelain chicken butter dishes, mugs, and vases, will be constructed and decorated with water etched, stamped, and hand-painted under glaze techniques. Liz's forms are built with embellishment in mind. She’ll share her thoughts about decorating a form, mixing and matching patterns from diverse cultural backgrounds. The techniques she uses to imbue a form with playfulness and vitality will all be demonstrated.

💻 Visit www.hollins.edu/wwwc to learn more about Liz and the other 2026 presenters!

We're excited to announce we only have 10 spots left! After that we will launch our wait-list which we will fill from if other participants must drop out.

Save your spot today at hollins.edu/wwwc!

✨ 2026 Presenter Spotlight ✨

Lindsay Pichaske received a BFA from the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill and an MFA from the University of Colorado—Boulder. She is represented by Duane Reed Gallery in St. Louis and exhibits her work regularly in museums and galleries, including the Jane Hartsook Gallery at Greenwich House Pottery, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Fuller Craft Museum, and the Daum Museum. She was the 2011 Taunt Fellow at the Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Arts in Helena, MT, and received an Emerging Artist Award from the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts in 2013. Lindsay is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Webster University in St. Louis, MO.

During WWWC, Lindsay will demonstrate the techniques she uses to sculpt animal figures. She will guide you through her process, including building solid on an armature and hollowing, rendering facial features, anatomical sculpting, and developing surfaces. You will also gain insight into technical aspects of creating pigmented porcelain textures. She’ll share her experience working with a variety of mixed media materials and clay, as well as her thought process as she contemplates how surface additions contribute to the texture, meaning, and personality of a figure.

💻 Visit www.hollins.edu/wwwc to learn more about Lindsay and other 2026presenters!

Stop by and say hello to WWWC Director Dara Hartman Ceramics at NCECA. She's got postcards at Table 17 (w/ the University of Wisconsin-Madison) table and will be in the Expo Hall on Wednesday, March 25th.