Shows & Events | Lisa Orr Pottery

Hands-on Rocket Kiln Build Workshop at Crab Orchard Pottery 6/6/26 - 6/7/26
Free-Form Clay Fired in a Rocket Kiln at Arrowmont School of the Arts 5/31/26 - 6/5/26

International Ceramics Festival, Presenting the Rocket Kiln, Aberystwyth, Wales June 27-29, 2025
https://ceramic.school/clay-camp, Online presentation of rocket kiln July 25-28, 2025
Sustain: Woodfire Conference 2025, Presenting Rocket Kiln, Starworks, Star NC May 21-25, 2025
St Croix Valley Pottery Tour, Guest of Peter Jadoonath, Schafer MN May 9-11, 2025
Dallas Pottery Invitational April 2-4, 2025

2024 Events

Old Church Pottery Show and Sale, Demarest, NJ December 6-8, 2024
Travis Heights Art Trail, Austin, TX November 2-3, 2024
Ohio Designer Craftsmen Functional Ceramics Exhibition and Workshop, Columbus, OH April 18-21, 2024
Together at the Table, Baltimore ClayWorks, Baltimore MD April 6-May 25, 2024
Asparagus Valley Pottery Trail, Guest of James Guggina, Florence MA April 27-28, 2024
St Croix Valley Pottery Tour, Guest of Peter Jadoonath, Schafer MN May 10-12, 2024
Flower City Pottery Invitational, Rochester, NY Oct 11-13, 2024

2023 Events

49th Annual Old Church Pottery Show at Demarest NJ, Dec 1-3, 2023
Rocket Kiln Workshop at Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts July 21-25, 2023
Out of the Frame: Painterly Schaller Gallery starting May 9, 2023 Baroda MI,
Worcester Pottery Invitational, April 21-23, 2023 Worcester Center for Craft, Worcester MA
Dallas Pottery Invitational April 14-16, 2023
ArtStream Nomadic Gallery NCECA Show and Tour! Cincinnati and other great pottery destinations: March 15-18, 2023
Workshop in Person with HeeSoo Lee at Cornell Studio Supply March 11-12, 2023
Holds Water Exhibition Fundraiser curated by Adero Willard, Feb 2023
Annual Dirty South Cup Call and Competition, River Oaks Square Arts Center, Alexandria LA Cash prizes! Enter here! gwendolyn yoppolo juror!
Brimful: an Invitational Exhibition of Handmade Cups, Tom Thomas Gallery, Indiana University at Richmond, IN. March 3 – April 14, 2023

2022 Events

Schaller Gallery Maker Focus alongside Eido Maeda beginning November 8, 2022
AkarDesign Americano Cup Show — still some great works left!
What a Cup Knows, Art stream Nomadic Gallery
Saratoga Art Center Clayfest 2022
Twenty x 5 Exhibition, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence KS 11/4-12/17 2022
Flower City Pottery Invitational, October 20-23, 2022 IN PERSON EVENT!! This is ground zero for a great lineup of workshops and a fun show featuring many excellent nationally known potters!
Northern Clay Center Featured Artist September 13-October 9, 2022

Join me Thursday March 10 6pm EST for the Everson Museum’s 12th Annual Ceramics Lecture followed by the opening of the exhibition Curious Vessels! Can’t be in Syracuse in person? Register on the events page above for a zoom link.
https://everson.org/connect/12th-annual-everson-ceramics-lecture-lisa-orr/

SXPF Southern Crossings Pottery Festival, Louisville KY March 4-5 IN PERSON EVENT!!! Come and check out the GREAT new works by top notch potters!
ArtStream Nomadic Gallery: Pottery to the People online exhibition opening March 7, 2022. One amazing trailblazing gallery, many cutting edge potters!
Schaller Gallery: Vegetabilia Opens online March 8, 2022
Dallas Pottery Invitational April 8-10, 2022 LIVE AND IN PERSON!! What the greatest thing about Dallas! Lots but this show tops them all!! Nationally known potters, fun, flowers, food, photobooth? Come see what there will be this year!
Asparagus Valley Pottery Trail April 29-May 1, 2022. IN PERSON EVENT!! Proudly exhibiting my works at Mary Barringer’s studio alongside the great Aysha Peltz, come for pots and conversation!
Meetinghouse Clay Workshop Cataumet, MA May 20-21, 2022
Permaculture Technology Jamboree Missoula MT June 27-July 8, 2022 I will be leading the charge to invent with master RMH Rocket Mass Heater builders a low-fuel, low-smoke wood kiln that fires using kindling using “J” tube firing technology. Come experiment with me! Let’s woodfire some pots!

2021 Events