Pewabic Pottery

Pewabic is a community of makers, educators and innovators devoted to progressing ceramics. We operate as a non-profit dedicated to making ceramics relevant and accessible to all by supporting artistic innovation and creating meaningful learning experiences.

Pewabic, founded in Detroit in 1903, is a community of makers, educators and innovators devoted to progressing ceramics. We ...are a non-profit organization dedicated to making ceramics relevant and accessible to all by supporting artistic innovation and creating meaningful learning experiences. We achieve this through a rotation of contemporary ceramic exhibitions, adult and youth educational...

About Us: Pewabic is many things To many people:A non-profit ceramic studio rich in heritage. An educational community devoted to inclusion. A creative incubator respected around the country.Innovative:Our founder, Mary Chase Perry Stratton, was an innovator. In the early twentieth century, her experiments with glazes changed the face of contemporary ceramics. That spirit her living legacy is...

One of Detroit's most famous art institutions, this is one of the few potteries that has been in operation since the era of the Arts and Crafts Movement in America. The 1903 Tudor Revival Building is a National Historic Landmark and a living museum preserving and displaying the work of founder Mary Chase Perry Stratton and subsequent Pewabic artists. Distinctive handcrafted ceramic wares...