Meet our February Mug of the Month artist, Lisa Berczel; a maker whose creative life has traveled from high‑gloss ad campaigns to the quiet focus of the clay studio. Lisa is a retired featured artist and product‑development consultant/educator in the food and cosmetic industries. For many years, her primary canvas was the human body: airbrush, black light, and hyper‑real makeup made her work instantly recognizable on mass‑market book covers, magazine fronts, international ad

When the Guild began selecting Member Artists for the 2026 Mug of the Month program, Brandon Peters quickly rose to the top of the list as someone they were eager to see more work from. As half of the Peters Pottery team, Brandon often leans into the technical side of the craft, while his pottery shop partner and spouse, Kathleen, brings their forms to life through sculpting, handwork, and expressive surface design. In March 2025, Peters Pottery presented a Mug of the Month c

FINALLY… it’s been a longer road than initially anticipated.  What began as an assortment of ideas slowly transformed into this finished collection, which feels a bit surreal. At the final stage of the journey, I’m grateful for everything the process taught me along the way. The process of making a collection is distinctly different from making one-off pieces for the sake of making pottery, and this experience gave me a whole new appreciation for artists who work in productio

Mug of the Month Progress Update: Coming up with the design of the Winter Sleigh ride was the easy part, bringing it to life has brought out multiple different challenges. Challenges: Timing: Timing is everything with this design, wait a day too late and the walls of the mug are too dry to attach the handle too without forming cracks. Attaching the handles involves a lot of slip and that added moisture to the sides of a mug that’s too dry usually ends with cracks forming. o