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Join us for Featured Firsts at Turnagain Ceramics! Each first Friday, we hold an opening reception for a different local ceramic artist, featuring a free community throw! Our front gallery is a treasure trove of pottery and ceramic art that our studio members lovingly handcraft. From plates, mugs, and bowls to jewelry and sculpture, our gallery has it all!This February, our featured artists are Julia Stutzer and Justine Goldon!
Justine Goldon is from Great Falls, Virginia, and has lived in Anchorage for just over two years. They began their ceramics journey last February here at Turnagain Ceramics. Justine’s work primarily focuses on functional ware and jewelry decorated with bold colors and patterns, funky and fluid shapes, and quirky illustrations. They draw inspiration from their love of nature, their queerness, and their neurospicy brain. Justine’s AuDHD mind is always in motion– full of texture, color, curiosity, and intensity, and pottery gives that energy somewhere semi-solid to land. The wild quiet of the outdoors grounds them, while their queerness encourages them to embrace fluidity, joy, and the freedom to exist outside of neat boxes. You can find their work on Instagram @stayspicyco. Outside of the studio, Justine enjoys adventuring with their spouse, Sam, both here in Alaska and internationally. Together, they love creating intentional spaces and opportunities for queer joy while Justine captures candid moments from behind their camera. They can often be found cuddled up on the couch with Sam and their three fur babies (Willow, Seuss, and Birdie), watching the latest season of campy, trash reality TV. Professionally, Justine works in tech as a product manager, balancing creativity with problem-solving in another form.
Julia Stutzer is from Homer, AK, and has lived in Anchorage on and off for the last 20 years. She began her ceramics journey in high school, and began making pottery as a member at Turnagain Ceramics three years ago. Growing up in Homer, Julia was surrounded by many artists and potters, hippies, and nature. She draws inspiration from these childhood influences and motifs: bark beetle-chewed spruce and worm-chewed driftwood, the pattern a river makes on a landscape as seen from above, and surreal teeth and tongue motifs inspired by Alex Combs, an artist and Julia’s family friend who used imagery of the human form on his pottery. Julia also draws inspiration from surrealist artists like Frida Kahlo and José Posada.
“It's very multifaceted and unpredictable. Every time the kiln is opened, it's a surprise - you never quite know how your pieces are going to come out, and I love not being totally in control of the results. It's multifaceted in that you can practice multiple art disciplines at the same time, sculpting, carving, color theory, painting, etc. I used to paint and do lino printing, and I can still practice those skills while doing pottery. My pieces tend to be in a variety of styles because I have too much fun experimenting with new techniques every time I come back to the studio.” - Julia Stutzer
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