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# Discover and Play with Works in Clay Throughout Brooklyn
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/discover-and-play-with-works-in-clay-throughout-brooklyn/
- Published: 2017-09-06T11:00:49.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:40:50.000Z
- Description: The artist-run Brooklyn Clay Tour inaugurates on September 8 with over 225 participating ceramicists and around 25 events across the borough.
- Author: Elisa Wouk Almino
- Tags: Art, Events, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:30(2016, 2017, part 3)

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Rene Murray’s work at her Gowanus studio (photo by Benjamin Sutton)

Chances are you have *someone* in your life who makes ceramics. (The contents of my kitchen cabinet are pretty much exclusively ceramics made by friends.) Whether explored professionally or recreationally, the medium of clay has had somewhat of a comeback in the past few years — especially in Brooklyn.

The artist-run [Brooklyn Clay Tour](https://www.brooklynclaytour.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) inaugurates this Friday with over 225 participating ceramicists and around 25 events across the borough. To discover the historical roots of ceramics in Brooklyn, you can go on [a walking tour](https://www.brooklynclaytour.com/events/2017/greenpoint-porcelain-tour?ref=hyperallergic.com) with historian Geoffrey Cobb in Greenpoint — the first place in the US to produce porcelain. While ceramics is popular now, it’s been around, as artist Rene Murray will share in [her demo](https://www.brooklynclaytour.com/events/2017/8/6/sculpting-a-life-in-clay-a-demonstration-of-ceramic-techniques-and-discussion-with-rene-murray?ref=hyperallergic.com) at her Gowanus studio, where she’s been since the 1970s.

You’ll also have the chance to do plenty of hands-on learning, from a pit firing demo at Pioneer Works in Red Hook to [a mosaic-making workshop](https://www.brooklynclaytour.com/events/theamazinggardenmosaic?ref=hyperallergic.com) in a nearby community garden. Various ceramic studios, including [BKLYN Clay](http://www.bklynclay.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) in South Slope and [Choplet](https://choplet.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) in Williamsburg, will be opening their spaces for demos and exhibiting work by their students that is at turns sculptural and functional. Or, if you’re not so crafty but have an eye for ceramics, you can go on a treasure hunt for 100 objects precariously hidden throughout Brooklyn.

**When:** Friday, September 8–Sunday September 10  
**Where:** Various locations throughout Brooklyn

*More info* [*here*](https://www.brooklynclaytour.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.*