Pottery you reach for every morning.

The Maker

Clay, community, and the long slow work of making things by hand.

“I make pottery a little heavier, a little sturdier — because I’ve felt the grief of shattering a favorite mug, and I’d rather make something that sticks around.”

Jen Woodard is a potter and teaching artist working in the Mississippi Delta. Her functional stoneware begins on the wheel and ends in the kiln, where heat and pressure get the final say — the wabi-sabi lesson she returns to in every firing.

Since 2018 she has run an open studio — the “Art Club” — where art majors and nursing students, athletes and musicians share communal tables and one unwritten rule: no negativity in here. When someone walks in stressed, nobody asks questions; they just hand over a piece of clay. Two marriages have started in that room. Ask how you know the clay is finally centered and the answer gets passed down like scripture: you feel it in your soul.

• Functional Stoneware
• Teaching Artist since 2018
• Mississippi Delta
• Commissions Welcome