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Meg Dougherty, Ceramic artist

A ceramic artist based on Brattleboro, VT, creating abstract sculptural forms that explore material agency through the lens of new materialism theory. After 25 years in academia, systematic methodology guides my studio practice investigating how clay, glaze, heat and time collaborate in the creative process.

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MD Ceramics Studio Updates - Winter 2026

MD Ceramics Winter 2026 Studio Updaters Multiplicity & Materiality This winter I've been thinking about repetition as a method of understanding. When you make something once, you learn its form. Make it a dozen times and you begin to understand its behavior, its limits, the way different glazes move across its surface differently with each iteration. The studio has become a space of productive multiplicity, where similar forms cluster and diverge, where material tests accumulate into...

19 days ago • 3 min read

When Clay Has Agency Stories from a research-driven ceramics studio Fall 2025 Fall brings this particularly beautiful light streaming over the western ridge line, bouncing off windows, and lighting up the woods next to my small studio like a theater set. These broken sculptures in my garden tell stories in the raking evening light. Each fragment catches the late afternoon glow differently. Some surfaces reflect, others absorb, all of them participate in an ongoing conversation about what...

2 months ago • 3 min read

Welcome to Studio Updates from MD Ceramics and GOOD Glaze Stories from the studio Thank you for subscribing to quarterly updates from MD Ceramics and GOOD Glaze. I'm excited to share my ongoing work at the intersection of contemporary ceramics and vibrant materiality. What to expect in upcoming newsletters... Behind-the-scenes studio process, material experiments, and stories of science and theory that influence it all New work reveals and exhibition announcements Research insights connecting...

5 months ago • 1 min read