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Due to the forecast, Baltimore Clayworks will be closed on Sunday. Baltimore Clayworks follows Baltimore City’s inclement weather school closing schedule: If City schools are closed, all of our day classes are canceled. If City schools are 1 or 2 hours delayed, our morning classes will start on time. If after-school activities are canceled but schools remain open, a decision will be made by COB.

Calls for Entry

Submit your work for our upcoming juried exhibitions, which showcase the best of international, national, and local ceramic artists working in ceramic sculpture, pottery, installation and conceptual ceramics.

Shino Odyssey​

Baltimore Clayworks is pleased to announce a call for entries for Shino Odyssey. Shino is a juried exhibition celebrating the depth and diversity of Shino glazes. This exhibition invites artists to explore and showcase the vast possibilities of Shino, a glaze family known for its remarkable sensitivity to clay body, application, kiln atmosphere, and firing duration. All interpretations of Shino glaze are encouraged. Selected artwork will be exhibited in our gallery and available for purchase.

Exhibition Dates: September 12 – October 31, 2026

Application Deadline: Friday, May 29, 2026

Notification: By Friday, June 29, 2026

Contact: Yoshi Fujii, Director of Exhibitions and Shop, yoshi.fujii@baltimoreclayworks.org

Apply to Shino Odyssey here

Juror's Statement

I have worked with Shino glazes now for nearly 25 years – nearly half my lifetime and the entirety of my potting career – and still find the Shino glaze family provides a complex visual and textural breadth. These glazes remain highly sensitive to clay body, application, kiln atmosphere, and duration of the firing which in turn allows for tremendous diversity with a touch of serendipity. 

Traditional Japanese Shino glaze (16 th Century) contains a high concentration of feldspar which, when fired, produces a thick semi-transparent white glaze. with a semi-gloss surface when fired to approximately 1200°C. Contemporary American Shino glazes – while they have evolved over the last 50 years – remain rooted in this basic chemical formulation with feldspar, soda ash and kaolin remaining central components of the glaze. 

Shino glazes are best detailed by their warm earthtone hues of cream and peach. They are at times temperamental, ethereal, sumptuous and tantalizing – a distillation and embodiment of our daily life, experience and relationships.  

I owe my potting career to those pioneering American potters who have informed my journey with Shino (such as Malcolm Davis and Warren MacKenzie), who have tested and re-tested, fired and failed only to persevere in their pursuit of this glaze Shino and it’s myriad possibilities. This exhibit seeks to explore Shino works  that best illustrate the depth, range, and variations possible with Shino glazes.  

  • Matt Hyleck

Guidelines

Eligibility

Submitted work must have been created within the last two years and have not been exhibited at Baltimore Clayworks. Open to any form of functional or sculptural object or installation, and clay must be the primary material. Enter up to three (3) pieces. All exhibited work must be for sale and available for the duration of the exhibition. Original accepted work only and no substitution.

Digital Image Requirements

Submit up to three(3) pieces and up to two(2) images of each piece. (Other images are not considered, or your application will be disqualified.) Images should be in square format; 2000×2000 pixels of 300 dpi as JPEG/JPG. Gray or white background. No text or other distracting objects/background on images. Each file name must be labeled with the artist’s three initials in the order: LAST, FIRST, MIDDLE (use “X” if no middle initial) and the corresponding number from your entry. (ex. Arther Clay Potter would be “PAC1.jpg”) If you submit alternative or close shot of the same work, you should label the images with “a” (ex. “PAC1a.jpg”. Only one alternative image per piece is permitted.) Baltimore Clayworks reserves the right to photograph work and uses the submitted images of accepted pieces for the purpose of publicity, promotion, education and documentation in printed materials, website and social media.

Application Fee

$30 for up to three pieces

Commission

In the case of sale, 50% of the retail price will be paid to the artist, and 50% goes to the gallery. Artist is responsible to shipment/delivery of the accepted work.

For inquiries, contact Yoshi Fujii, Director of Exhibitions and Shop, at yoshi.fujii@baltimoreclayworks.org

Top Image: Eliza AuF