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“Our greatest challenge right now is keeping our fridges filled for our very hungry neighbors. We can have political debates around the issue and passionate discussions about our differences...
As part of our Wealth Reclamation project, our customers made donations to our Community Partners all year long in 2021. Here is a breakdown of their giving.
East Fork founder Alex Matisse, his mentor Mark Hewitt and acclaimed historian Tristam Hunt discuss innovations in pottery that find their roots in the 1700s with Josiah Wedgwood and...
We’re putting an end to everyone but the host having fun at the party.
He made a small run of pie plates that will be sold by Tracksmith.
An interview with Delores Pottery, East Fork community partner in late 2021.
An interview with Frederick Bouchardy, founder of Joya, the fragrance brand and design studio that makes East Fork’s beloved Tender Earth and Odd Woods candles.
This glaze is sun slanting on wheat fields and the warmth of the afternoon.
In the pause between seasons, with the help of reflected light, we take stock.
Conversations with Tracey Greene-Washington, Libby Kyles and Niconda Garcia, of CoThinkk, recipient of East Fork’s Wealth Reclamation efforts in late summer and early fall 2021.
Watch to learn tips on how to host a beautiful, intimate meal for your loved ones.
Avid gardener, inspired home cook and illustrator of a certain Mug you may recognize, Katrina Brosan is a person of many passions. She spoke about them with our Donna...
Elianah shares a day living in Los Angeles with her dog Elvis.
We believe in prioritizing the centering experience of Blackness at East Fork.
3D Designer and plant enthusiast Joy Douglas shows us a day in her life and talks to us about her artistic process.
We collaborated with this small Winston-Salem-based business whose mission is to help people remember their inner strength.
A conversation with Alexandria Ravenel, equity director at the YMI Cultural Center, recipient of East Fork’s Wealth Reclamation efforts in spring 2021.
A group of doulas in Western North Carolina offer care to women of color from pregnancy to delivery and beyond.
Singer-songwriter Elah Hale shares her morning with us—plus an exclusive interview on art, music, and cooking at home.
Jehanne Dubrow writes about her favorite East Fork Mug in this personal essay.
A conversation with Hans Kritzler, the director of Anfora, a century-old dinnerware manufacturer based in Mexico that makes a mind-boggling number of pieces and has a design division that...
An interview with Andrea Golden and Jackie Fitzgerald of Asheville’s PODER Emma, the collective network that is the recipient of East Fork’s Wealth Reclamation efforts in early 2021.
We put together an assortment of our favorite glaze combos—from classic to downright funky.
Jefferson Ellison finds himself at “the universe’s table” in the first of a new series of dream dinners.
Resources for helping to dismantle systems that give a handful of food conglomerates the power to decide what gets grown and by whom and for making fresh, healthy foods...
The East Fork collection has a new serving board we’d like to tell you about, along with our friend and conspirator in wood, Andy McFate.
Our Connie Matisse caught up with Samin Nosrat on a video chat. They spoke wistfully about gathering with friends over meals, food justice, a new glaze coming out in...
Pottery Peep Show is a glimpse into the cabinets and closets of serious East Fork collectors, dishing the dishes with our own Annie Schambach. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry (though...
A conversation on Southern Hospitality with cocktail historian and Atlanta-based bartender, Tiffanie Barriere.
For Alex Elle, self-care is so much more than a buzzword—it’s a necessary tool for growing and maintaining self-love.
We're going to be pausing the production of our Soapstone glaze later this year, in preparation of refreshing and expanding our year-round, core colorway. When we made the announcement...
In 2017, with the help of a facilitator, we invited our staff to co-create a list of company values. In conversation with each other, with customers, with vendors, with...
I'm thinking about my pregnant friends and what it'll be like for them to give birth later this month. I'm thinking about my friends raising kids alone. I'm...
Emilja made coloring pages! Click for a happy, calming distraction. Then share your artwork with us @eastforkpottery
About a year and a half ago, Alex told me about Bob Chapman’s book, Everybody Matters, I read it and I got excited. It talked about lean as...
I met Deanna Lynch in the East Fork Asheville shop a while back, and it did not take long for our conversation to turn into a full-on textile nerd-out....
MINNA is a tight-knit team of seven artists, creators, and thinkers based in Hudson, NY. They are a queer woman-owned and majority queer or woman operated business, working with master...
We chatted with Kory Gier, VP of Holland Bowl Mill, on her journey of expanding a 4th generation, 94-year-old mill from making wood shoes to contemporary bowls in Holland, Michigan.
We made some playlists for you.
A care guide for your pots, yourself, each other.
"If the bowl is dirty, wash it." There's calm in the call to action to tend the gardens we've sowed.
Take a moment and enjoy an East Fork crossword with us. If you're quick, you may even win a prize.
As the bits of residual glass cool, they shatter off the blowpipes and thus the pipes are ready for the next round of production. Hayden warned us not...
Ask any travel listicle where to plan your next getaway and 99% of them are going to tell you to come to Asheville. Clean mountain air, live...
Four times a year, we raffle off a highly collectible piece from the Small Batch Studio to raise funds for a justice and equity-minded Western North Carolina nonprofit....
A warm, earthy, subtly sweet tea we can't get enough of: Color Therapy. Explore the process from sowing the seed to steeping a fresh pot of tea as we...
We asked our team, here at East Fork HQ, to share their plans for Valentine’s Day (or previous ones), no matter if it’s love-related or not, and we...
If you're feeling anything but merry and bright this season, we just wanted to remind you and ourselves that you are not alone...
This holiday season, we hope you’ll join us in remembering that real humans are opening our emails and answering our phone calls.
Night Swim is an unexpected JOY to behold alongside so many past East Fork seasonals.
