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MoNSteR’s studio
@monsters-studio.bsky.social
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small batch ceramic art, handmade and fired in NJ

Upcoming: Pittstown Pots and Blooms | May 10th 10am-3pm | 368 Oak Grove Rd, Pittstown, NJ

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#art #artist #ceramics #pottery #studioartist
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Hehe I’m on the flyer for this year 😁
Leams edition ART THROWDOWN April 27 • 3-4:30pm Join us for an afternoon fundraiser for the whole family with fun, food, and art-making! Purchase tickets at ccabedminster.org or by scanning QR Code Tickets are $35 per person/$40 at the door. Children 15 and under are FREE. INTERIO PRES HOW IT WORKS? Seven three-person teams have accepted the challenge to create an original work of art in just one hour! PREP SICA THE CATCH- They must also incorporate items inside a "mystery box" into the artwork! YOU'LL GET TO... Experience artists working live and vote for your favorites! GO HOME WITH AN ORIGINAL ARTWORK! By entering the Art Throwdown raffle! You must be present to win THE CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART 2020 Burnt Mills Road Bedminster, NJ 07921 908.234-2345 ccabedminster.org
March 31, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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It’s clay reclaim day in my tiny apartment studio. First I’m drying out old blocks of clay on the front stoop, then hammering the dried clay into chunks to slag down in a bucket. Then the clay is dried on plaster bats. When it feels right, I wedge the slop back into clay and make something from it.
Large clay cubes and a pile of clay chunk dry on boards on the front porch. Tiny chunks of clay lay submerged in a pink bucket with a hammer laid across the rim. A slagged down pile of clay lays ontop of a plaster bat in front of a heater. Two round clay sculptures begin to take shape on a work table.
March 31, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Fellow New Jerseyans! Next Thursday, in Keyport, NJ, is the very first Collective Creativity. An Open Mic event featuring the musical talents of Renee Maskin. I will be the featured artist, bringing along some pottery and my carnivorous plant babies for sale!

#nj #newjersey #njmusic #njlocal
March 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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A group show featuring ten potters collaborating with florist SpadaFlora.

May 10, 2025
368 Oak Grove Rd Pittstown NJ

John Reinking
Keiko Inouye
Brian Chen
Maxwell Mustardo
Monster
Tyler James Emerson Moore
Jennifer Evans Arbo
Kimberly Hardiman Winnicky
Alicia Ulmes

#pottery #newjersey #nj #clay
Pittstown Pots and Blooms May 10, 2025 368 Oak Grove Rd Pittstown NJ
March 13, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Here are my test tiles for a local Jersey wild clay that I mixed with porcelain. From left to right, we have cone 05 ox, cone 6 ox, cone 10 ox, cone 10 red, cone 10 red w/ clear glaze, and cone 10 “ fake woodfire” featuring a shino dipped in too much wood ash. I’m underwhelmed by it 😕

#wildclay
March 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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A little black underglaze applied, and into the bisque kiln he goes!

#wip #workinprogress #riverotter #pottery #ceramics #clay
Light brown otter sculpture sits amongst various thrown pottery vessels inside a kiln.
March 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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He’s so grumpy!

#workinprogress #wip #ceramics #sculpture #clay #frenchbulldogart
A hand holds a lump of brown clay carved into the shape of a grumpy french bulldog.
March 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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New #workinprogress. An otter, who is also a bud vase.

#wip #ceramics #clay #studioartist #studiopotter #pottery
A cute otter made fram brown clay. A cute otter made fram brown clay.
February 19, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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How I pay attention in meetings.

#sketches #doodles #adhd
A page from a lined notebook covered in black ink doodles of cats and dogs.
February 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Exciting workshop coming up at The Center for Contemporary Art in Bedminster, NJ. The amazing Minsoo Yuh will be teaching a 2-day workshop!

#ceramics #pottery #ceramicsclasses #nj #newjersey
Flyer depicts a women holding a bowl covered in flowers and images of other pots, reads “2-DAY WORK SHOP WITH CERAMIC ARTIST MINSOO YUH, SATURDAY, APRIL 5 & SUNDAY APRIL 6 FROM 10AM-4PM TUITION: $250 NON-MEMBERS/$225 MEMBERS.”
February 13, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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I managed to safely transport the Owlbear sculpture to the ceramics studio that I work at. Thanks Keiko for filming the reveal 😂

#ceramics #ceramicsculpture #clay #studioartist #wip
February 13, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Maisy in the snow 🤍

#dogs #snootyboopkins #snow #adventuredog #easterneuropeanvillagedog #sochidog
Brown fluffy dog lays in fresh snow, looking up at the camera with a small fluff of snow on the tip of her snoot.
February 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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So uh… LimeCrime… what happened?

#limecrime #pinkhair #hairdye
Women holds up Lime Crime hair dye box label next to fluorescent pink hair… the colors do not match.
February 12, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Never thought I’d need to buy one of these…

#antinazi #nonazis #punchnazis
Red sticker that has a cross out over a black swatstika
February 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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I am determined to finish this sculpture TODAY!

#owlbear #fantasyart #sculpture #clay #birds #owls #ceramics #wip
February 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Oh lord I’m attempting texture 😅😅😅

#ceramics #clay #sculpture #owlbear #birds #birdart
Close up of a brown clay owlbear sculpture.
February 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Over the last few years I developed an interest in growing carnivorous plants. Here is my pride and joy from over the summer… a 12” bog full of sundew, venus fly traps and trumpet pitcher plants.

#carnivorousplants #houseplants #venusflytraps #sundew #bog #boggarden
Black flowerpot holding various carnivorous plants including sundew, venus fly traps and trumpet pitcher plants, surrounded in moss. Close up of a venus fly trap next to a human finger for scale.
January 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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I have no idea how I am going to finish the surface of the owlbear sculpture. Eastern Screech Owls have very busy patterns, which I am trying to somehow simplify for the sculpture. Just gonna keep playing around with ideas until something feels right.

#sketchbook #doodles #fantasyart #wip
A sketchbook opened up to a page of loosely drawn owlbears. Some of the owlbears are filled in with color pencil in brown, red and orange.
January 27, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Okay… this escalated quickly 😅

#owlbear #birds #fantasyart #clay #wip #ceramics
brown clay sculpture of an owlbear brown clay sculpture of an owlbear
January 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Restructuring the face. Trying to get the underlying form of the owl’s face correct before I go in and add feathers. Not easy 😅

#owlbear #birds #sculpture #wip #ceramics #ceramicsculpture #clay
January 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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The first attempt in my wild clay series. Went hiking with Maisy at a park near my home and stumbled across some clay, and made a borb! Then, the borb was woodfired at The Kiln Yard for 7 days in an anagama. Love that toasty brown color!

#wildclay #woodfiredceramics #wufar #ceramics #birds
a hand holds a gray punch pot while a second punch pot sits in the hole from which it was dug. A hand clutches a small round bird sculpture made from freshly dug clay. A cute fluffy brown dog named Maisy blebs for the camera while sitting in a thick patch of moss. A shiny woodfired bird sculpture glistens in the glow of the setting sun.
January 26, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Hello, I’m Monster!
January 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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A wild clay project depicting wildlife indigenous to the location the clay was found. This wild clay was dug in northern NJ, and the sculpture was fleshed out on location. I chose a black bear as my figure due to their likeliness to be encountered in that region.

#wildclay #ceramics #sculpture
January 25, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Woodfired rabbit pot from the Spring 2024 firing at The Kiln Yard’s anagama The Vulture

#woodfiredceramics #woodfiredpottery #wufar
January 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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woodfired wood thrush sculpture sculpture of a brown bear sitting and looking at the viewer three wood thrush sculptures
January 24, 2025 at 10:47 PM