7 Lidded Jars

Just unpacked 7 lidded jars I made in 2019. It felt like a time capsule and a lot of presents. I really appreciate that I packed them up together and now can see them again. Some of the lids have a figure on top like a bird, a girl, a cat, a sheep and a …

Low Fire Planters in July

By Joyce Lieberman August, 2025 In July, I started a project to use up my red and white low fire clay. It had to be reclaimed in buckets because it had hardened. Amy, a new neighbor  who had just broken her pot, wanted to learn how to do it and was really enchanted by the …

Peanut Vases by Joyce Lieberman

Shapely like a peanut in the shell or a guitar or a woman, these new slab construction vases are so great. I made a group of 10 over the last two months. My kiln is small, so the most I could fire at a time were four. The last one has a faux clock. The …

Moss architectural skins, baskets and lattice.

Moss created the (w)rapper building in my neighborhood. I saw it coming and going through the creation. Skins in architecture like the Peterson Automotive Museum on Wilshire Blvd in Los Angeles and The Broad Museum downtown Los Angeles have intrigued me for a while. I was so curious about it. Now that it’s built, I …

New Masks and Busts

A few weeks before Halloween, I created a group of 14 masks and busts in cone 5 clay. Some were based on faces that I had seen, including my own and various neighbors and some were fanciful fictional, much like my puppets and paintings.