Vanessa Hartman

One week left to see ‘Symbiogenesis: A New Nature in the Anthropocene’ up at Ijams Nature Center!

✨Call for birdhouses✨
Send your birdhouse to the museum in the mail to be apart of our annual showcase of human-crafted homes for birds!

Soup Sippers!!!
Y’all coming to Mill and Mine Feb 7th for Beardsley Farm’s annual Snow Day??

Sipping bowls for
Beardsley Farm’s Snow Day February 7th 6-9:30pm
Still testing some glazes, I will have a nice variety ready day of!
Come and seeeeee 🌀

My web-store is updated!
Check out www.vanessamhartman.com
for some good ol’ home-made goodies ✨

Hues n cues n holes!

I never behave when a camera is around.
I think it’s generational.
And for that I’m thankful.
Happy to be here.
Thanks for looking ✨

Collaboration with @kylecottier.bsky.social
I would rather die than explain to the blue horses what war is

Eternal Species: Infinite Crab

I’m in glaze-testing mode!
Finished bowls for Beardsley Farm are underway!

Image of a dining room table covered entirely by 100 bisque-fired white and red ceramic cups in front of a wall decorated with a large mirror flanked by two tiles draped in white Christmas lights. Long: photo of a dining room wall with a square frame of bug paintings enveloping a round mirror. White Christmas light decorations from top left frame drape over a ceramic tile picturing rope, the framed mirror, and another tile of rope before exiting frame right. There are small horse figurines of larger and smaller size sitting atop the bug mirror and rope-tiles. Two heavily carved/turned wooden chairs flank the table but only the top right and left halves are visible. At the back of the table center, towards the wall, three candles in candlesticks. The outer two, green in brass holders. The center candlestick has a yellow sheet metal cut out of a person riding a leaping horse near the top of a black metal rod. The candle itself is white and sits in a red cup, just above the leaping scene, atop the persons head. The white candle is burned halfway through and reaches the visual line of the black frame of the big mirror. The reflection in the mirror is of a ceiling light nestled in a tumbleweed, giving the effect of a lit up birds nest or plant roots, behind which, a receding string of red lights zigzag zags on the ceiling and out of view. The main character of this image however, a rectangle wooden dining room table whose front long edge is just visible at the bottom and spans the length of the image, is covered entirely by 100 handmade ceramic cups in stacks of two. The cups are organized by white clay and red clay. The white taking up 3/4 and the red taking 1/4 of the table are bisque fired, so you can still see the color of the clay itself.

Hello new world!