Andrew Long
@claybeard-ceramics.bsky.social
Ceramic artist and teacher
3rd year MFA candidate at Mizzou
Account focused on clay, cats, and community. Maybe the occasional memes.
3rd year MFA candidate at Mizzou
Account focused on clay, cats, and community. Maybe the occasional memes.
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Hello!! Sorry it's been a while, but my thesis has taken over my life. It's finally up, and it's exceeded my expectations! Now I just have to focus on my writing, and I'll be graduating in May!
#pottery #ceramics #sculpture #installation
#pottery #ceramics #sculpture #installation
April 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Hello!! Sorry it's been a while, but my thesis has taken over my life. It's finally up, and it's exceeded my expectations! Now I just have to focus on my writing, and I'll be graduating in May!
#pottery #ceramics #sculpture #installation
#pottery #ceramics #sculpture #installation
Thesis mode is in full swing! 3 more down, 11 being built, and 7 ready for glaze!
February 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Thesis mode is in full swing! 3 more down, 11 being built, and 7 ready for glaze!
Hey ya'll,
I'm kind of tired of screaming into the void every morning and thinking about what I can do.
Recently, I've been thinking about how amazing the clay community rallied to support civil rights and make change in 2020 through what we do best; building community and making things...
I'm kind of tired of screaming into the void every morning and thinking about what I can do.
Recently, I've been thinking about how amazing the clay community rallied to support civil rights and make change in 2020 through what we do best; building community and making things...
February 7, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Hey ya'll,
I'm kind of tired of screaming into the void every morning and thinking about what I can do.
Recently, I've been thinking about how amazing the clay community rallied to support civil rights and make change in 2020 through what we do best; building community and making things...
I'm kind of tired of screaming into the void every morning and thinking about what I can do.
Recently, I've been thinking about how amazing the clay community rallied to support civil rights and make change in 2020 through what we do best; building community and making things...
February 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Save the date. Wish I was there for the sale.
February 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Save the date. Wish I was there for the sale.
Another one! I have a few more started in my studio, so over the next few days, I'll add the rest of the finished ones as well as some in progress.
#pottery #ceramics #earthenware #handmade
#pottery #ceramics #earthenware #handmade
February 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Another one! I have a few more started in my studio, so over the next few days, I'll add the rest of the finished ones as well as some in progress.
#pottery #ceramics #earthenware #handmade
#pottery #ceramics #earthenware #handmade
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I do make cups and stuff, I promise. But I really love forms that leave the field for function open: Vases, boxes, censers, platters.
These open ended containers allow for endless play on my end and versatile use on the owners’ end. It’s a collaborative field and I love that. Do what you want 💖
These open ended containers allow for endless play on my end and versatile use on the owners’ end. It’s a collaborative field and I love that. Do what you want 💖
February 2, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I do make cups and stuff, I promise. But I really love forms that leave the field for function open: Vases, boxes, censers, platters.
These open ended containers allow for endless play on my end and versatile use on the owners’ end. It’s a collaborative field and I love that. Do what you want 💖
These open ended containers allow for endless play on my end and versatile use on the owners’ end. It’s a collaborative field and I love that. Do what you want 💖
I'm finally getting around to documenting the work from my last glaze firing. I'm really looking forward to post thesis when I can really start exploring this body of work through different forms.
#pottery #ceramics #handmade #earthenware
#pottery #ceramics #handmade #earthenware
February 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I'm finally getting around to documenting the work from my last glaze firing. I'm really looking forward to post thesis when I can really start exploring this body of work through different forms.
#pottery #ceramics #handmade #earthenware
#pottery #ceramics #handmade #earthenware
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Hi folks. Jumping on here. Thanks for checking in.
February 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Hi folks. Jumping on here. Thanks for checking in.
I had a thesis committee check-in on Friday. Things are getting real now! In a few months, I'll be graduating, and the job search is starting to warm up.
#gradschool #ceramics #mfa
#gradschool #ceramics #mfa
February 2, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I had a thesis committee check-in on Friday. Things are getting real now! In a few months, I'll be graduating, and the job search is starting to warm up.
#gradschool #ceramics #mfa
#gradschool #ceramics #mfa
A great read! I severely dislike the gatekeeping and snobbery that some people hold over being an artist and artistic practice. I firmly believe that if you can manifest your ideas into form through creative expression, then you are an artist.
January 31, 2025 at 2:19 PM
A great read! I severely dislike the gatekeeping and snobbery that some people hold over being an artist and artistic practice. I firmly believe that if you can manifest your ideas into form through creative expression, then you are an artist.
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I’m a hand- builder. I make lots of cups
January 31, 2025 at 3:02 AM
I’m a hand- builder. I make lots of cups
Time for a Toro appreciation post. I love his little black heart nose 🖤
#catsofbluesky
#catsofbluesky
January 31, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Time for a Toro appreciation post. I love his little black heart nose 🖤
#catsofbluesky
#catsofbluesky
Some older work for this Thursday! I never thought I'd be doing this or that it was a thing that even existed until I took a wheel class as an elective at college many years ago. The next thing I knew, I grew a beard and had an art degree.
#pottery #ceramics #pottersofbluesky
#pottery #ceramics #pottersofbluesky
January 30, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Some older work for this Thursday! I never thought I'd be doing this or that it was a thing that even existed until I took a wheel class as an elective at college many years ago. The next thing I knew, I grew a beard and had an art degree.
#pottery #ceramics #pottersofbluesky
#pottery #ceramics #pottersofbluesky
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Well, it turns out you can put a whole house water line on a credit card. 💸
If you feel like buying a mug (or even just sharing this post) tonight, I’d be eternally grateful. 🩸 littleedenpottery.etsy.com/listing/1596... #pottery #art #ceramics #horror #horrorlit #horrorart #horrormovies
If you feel like buying a mug (or even just sharing this post) tonight, I’d be eternally grateful. 🩸 littleedenpottery.etsy.com/listing/1596... #pottery #art #ceramics #horror #horrorlit #horrorart #horrormovies
Final Girl Mug, MADE TO ORDER, Bloody Mug, Horror Movie Mug, Scary Mug, Gift for Friend Mug, Hand-thrown Handmade Pottery Made in Wyoming - Etsy
This Mugs item by LittleEdenPottery has 1950 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from Cheyenne, WY. Listed on Jan 29, 2025
littleedenpottery.etsy.com
January 29, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Well, it turns out you can put a whole house water line on a credit card. 💸
If you feel like buying a mug (or even just sharing this post) tonight, I’d be eternally grateful. 🩸 littleedenpottery.etsy.com/listing/1596... #pottery #art #ceramics #horror #horrorlit #horrorart #horrormovies
If you feel like buying a mug (or even just sharing this post) tonight, I’d be eternally grateful. 🩸 littleedenpottery.etsy.com/listing/1596... #pottery #art #ceramics #horror #horrorlit #horrorart #horrormovies
Another jar from last semester! The new ones came out really well, I just need to get some pictures of them. It amazed me how much my work has changed over the past few years, but I guess that's what grad school does.
#pottery #ceramics #handmade #art #earthenware
#pottery #ceramics #handmade #art #earthenware
January 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Another jar from last semester! The new ones came out really well, I just need to get some pictures of them. It amazed me how much my work has changed over the past few years, but I guess that's what grad school does.
#pottery #ceramics #handmade #art #earthenware
#pottery #ceramics #handmade #art #earthenware
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For those local to Orlando, or passing through, I’ll be using this platform to help with promotion and engagement for ceramic exhibitions I host here in town. For y’all not local, I’m building a website. It’s in progress, but let’s throw it into the sky anyway:
www.crossdraftgallery.com
www.crossdraftgallery.com
January 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
For those local to Orlando, or passing through, I’ll be using this platform to help with promotion and engagement for ceramic exhibitions I host here in town. For y’all not local, I’m building a website. It’s in progress, but let’s throw it into the sky anyway:
www.crossdraftgallery.com
www.crossdraftgallery.com
Total brain fair because I've forgotten to remind people about this one over at Companion Gallery and juried by my homie @carlyslade.bsky.social
I know its short notice for anyone who didn't already know about it.
#Clay #ceramics #pottery #clayopencally
I know its short notice for anyone who didn't already know about it.
#Clay #ceramics #pottery #clayopencally
January 28, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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“Gates’s political act is to say that craft matters, objects matter, in an increasingly digitised and manipulated world”
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Theaster Gates: ‘I’m an artist. It’s my job to wake things up’
In the week of Donald Trump’s inauguration, the US artist is in the UK with a show drawing on the legacy of Malcolm X – and an alternative vision for making America great again
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
“Gates’s political act is to say that craft matters, objects matter, in an increasingly digitised and manipulated world”
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Im you resident Appalachian academic, artist, storyteller, holler woman, making art about Mountain folklife. You'll find me reconciling the land-based practices I grew up with and the effects of extractive industries, exploring ideas of Appalachian identity, making art with Fungi.
January 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Im you resident Appalachian academic, artist, storyteller, holler woman, making art about Mountain folklife. You'll find me reconciling the land-based practices I grew up with and the effects of extractive industries, exploring ideas of Appalachian identity, making art with Fungi.
Everything is an opportunity. Each class they make a temporary sculpture out of their failed pots as a collaborative exercise and to have some fun with the frustration that comes along with learning. They named this one "Hubert"
January 28, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Everything is an opportunity. Each class they make a temporary sculpture out of their failed pots as a collaborative exercise and to have some fun with the frustration that comes along with learning. They named this one "Hubert"
I started to feel like having my students throw out their first cylinders was wasted potential. To fix that, I decided to have them make assemblages out of all their intro cylinders. I'm trying to think of the wheel as a tool and potential ways to work outside of just the functional vessles.
January 27, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I started to feel like having my students throw out their first cylinders was wasted potential. To fix that, I decided to have them make assemblages out of all their intro cylinders. I'm trying to think of the wheel as a tool and potential ways to work outside of just the functional vessles.