Grounded in play, Clayfulness is a monthly newsletter exploring what it means to be a small business with transparency. My name is Julie Cloutier and I run a small ceramics studio called Cloutier Ceramics. I make functional wares, handheld sculptures and everyday objects with clay.
This will be a place where you’ll find failures and victories from my studio practice, how I stay motivated and when I’m not. I’ll write about the intersection of art and craft, useful irrationalities and where my inspiration comes from.
This newsletter will ask questions, share intentions and will prompt readers with exercises for play. I’ll include everything from studio progressions, opportunities, regrets and dreams, financial honesty and details of my day-to-day struggles and triumphs as a working artist. I want this to organically grow and to not be too serious. I look forward to sharing the small and big stuff and seeing what unfolds.
Thank you for being here!
