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Imagine Peace Pottery

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Imagine Peace Pottery

Inspired by the world around me, and located in the beautiful hills of rural, northern Pennsylvania, this is a functioning pottery studio.

Functional pottery studio, located in the Potter County, PA. This business has been my driving force through many tough times and what I have strived to achieve. This is my first step in this journey with clay and following my dreams. While I am a mostly self-taught pottery, my formal ceramic education came from a close mentor and personal friend when I was in school and my current mentor a produc

tion potter of 35 years. Beyond my mentors' teachings I continue to follow a course of self-study and strive to learn new processes and techniques. My studio began in the basement of a rented house, where I could only create pieces but couldn't finish them because I wasn't permitted to wire in my kiln. When I changed jobs, I also changed homes, and worked in a fully renovated 100 year old print studio. This studio needed a lot of work but after a thorough cleaning, painting, rewiring, insulating, and decorating it became a functioning studio and place of inspiration and peace for me. In 2016 we purchased our farmstead, plan on opening a studio on site, where the public can come and take classes or just wander the studio and farm. Until then we have finished a loft space above the garage which is my current studio. Some people say things, "Just make sense". You hear this all the time, I just looked at an engine and it made sense, I just picked up a pen and could write, it just felt right when I was flying - For me it just made sense, the first time I sat down behind a potter's wheel. It felt so natural and right and in centering that clay, I feel like I have centered my life a little more, found a purpose and a sense of being. I tried to find more prosperous ways to live in the past but never found something that felt as right as when I was working with clay. This is only the beginning of this story, there will be many more chapters as the pages are turned. ~IMAGINE PEACE~ WJM

03/29/2026

Sunday morning progress - electric firing upcoming then onto to woodfire focused pots ✌️🌙☮️

03/26/2026

Date night mess - what a student 🌙💞🦋❤️‍🔥

03/21/2026

Quietly and slowly, working, building, planning and dreaming with intention. Tonight oil cruets …. ✌️☮️🌙

03/12/2026

Nothing goes to waste …. ✌️☮️🌙

03/04/2026

Foot, stability, foundation on which to build. May we all have a solid foot - a home, a foundation on which to build. Prep for spring firing is under way. 🔥☮️✌️🌙

01/03/2026

Amidst all the other work the last two months I also tackled a commission for the - it was a fun project roughly 250 lbs. of clay to produce 80 mugs lost a few in the firings. 19 different glaze combos and my favorite pieces are 7 special mugs that went through the 54 hours of the Fall woodfiring. Big thank you to my partner for helping me glaze and getting these tankards ready to go. ✌️☮️🌙🔥

I’m only gettin started

11/24/2025

The last couple months have flown by in a blur. So many changes and new beginnings - the culmination of 2 months of work - sleepless nights and early mornings in the studio.

The end result of all the work took place quietly over the last 3 weeks. With 16 artist bringing over 400+ pieces of work to the kiln. Loading the kiln in freezing temps with the wadding freezing before I could even get shelves leveled. Snow storms forced me to bring work into the kiln a few pieces at a time. Hands stiff, cracked and bleeding from the cold but somehow managing to get the kiln loaded and buttoned up on time.

56 hours of constant stoking with the support of a great crew, friends and family we brought the kiln up over 2375 degrees and waited patiently for the Bee to cool over the course of a week.

Unloading was amazing with so much work coming out it was overwhelming to take it all in. There is never enough time to enjoy all the little nuances of each piece. I am beyond grateful for the entire group that made this possible, it is one of my life’s greatest privileges to be able to share this experience with so many great people.

Huge thanks to my crew - Kimberly G., Kim F., Mark C, .j.morin Teri C., Karen K., Emily H., Sandy B., Brad & Kim D., , Ed M., and

Also I would never forget to say thank you and I love you to for putting up with the insanity that has been my life over the course of the past couple months while I prepared for this 🦋💞🌙

Thank you from the bottom of my heart to you all 🐝 🔥✌️☮️🌙

10/09/2025

Sometimes you just need a couple really big bartmanns to wrap up a commission 🔥🌙✌️☮️

09/28/2025

If you’re like me you may occasionally feel that storm surge up in your soul and the lightening that seems like it can’t be contained in your bones. I have felt that again and again and get the urge to work to calm the seas and release that energy, not always successful but today was. Billy and I finished the last of the wood I collected two years ago: sorted, stacked and cleaned up the pile. This should last through the 2026 firing season.

Also I learned when opportunity knocks you better damn well open the door whether you’re ready or not progress won’t wait. The poem needs to be written before it vanishes like a storm over the next hill🦋 - so there are some exciting developments in the works specifically the new salt and soda fired manabigama that will be built over the course of the next two years with the first firing hopefully happening in 2027. Even if you unsure jump into the flames you’ll only emerge stronger 🔥☮️✌️🌙

09/09/2025

Do the work, let it consume you 🔥✌️☮️🌙

09/07/2025

Best time of the night when that sunset light streams through the picture window and hits a big pot… these are a couple big planters as I am trying out a couple new clay bodies for larger work… all the bricks I think would come together nicely as a manabagama salt glaze kiln and so I guess I need to make more pots - definitely have the clay for it - back to work 🔥✌️☮️🌙

09/06/2025

Cranking out Bartmanns, with - this is a fun collab with some of the new faces being pulled directly off Bartmanns that are from the early 1600’s. I like to keep the human touch in these so while we aren’t going for perfection we are going for as close to historically accurate as possible 🔥✌️🌙☮️

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350 Whitehead Road
Mills, PA
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