about claireware

About Claireware

If you are interested in ordering Claireware for your shop, gallery or home, you may either specify the amount of money you want to spend or choose how many of each particular item you want. Although Claireware discourages ordering specific pieces that you have either seen in photographs or sold in the past, some buyers request colors or general patterns that have sold well for them. To request a price list or place an order please e-mail Claireware1@aol.com. To add your name to the Claireware mailing list please click the Sign Up button at the bottom of this page.

Claireware is available at the following stores and galleries:

Show of Hands 210 Clayton Denver, CO 80206 303-399-0201	Ann Arbor Art Center 117 West Liberty St. Ann Arbor, MI 48104 734-994-8004
Whyevernot 17 West Main Street Mystic, CT 06355 860-536-6209	Silver Fish Gallery 485 Dewey Ave. Eureka, MT, 59917 406-297-7660
Sticks East Village 521 East Locust Street Des Moines , IA 50309 515- 282-0844	MICA Contemporary Crafts 2039 Madison Road Cincinatti, OH 45208 513-533-1974
Sticks West Glen 5525 Mills Civic Parkway, Suite 100 West Des Moines , IA 50266 515- 222-5930	A Mano Galleries 128 S Main St New Hope, PA 18938 215-862-5122
Edenside Gallery 1422 Bardstown Rd. Louisville, KY 40204 502-459-2787	The Works 303 Cherry St. Philadelphia, PA 19106 215-922-7775
Judy at the Rink 2727 Prytania St. New Orleans, LA 70130 504-891-7018	The American Artisan 4231 Harding Pike Nashville, TN 37205 615-298-4691
Side Street Gallery 17 Rocky Neck Avenue Gloucester, MA 01930 978-283-3791	Main Street Gallery 4282 Main Street Chincoteague, VA 23336 804-336-6782
Essentia 91 Central St. Wellesley, MA 02482 617-332-7749	Margo's Pottery and Fine Crafts 1 North Main Street Buffalo, WY 82834 307-684-9406
The Left Bank 25 Commercial St. Wellfleet, MA 02667 508-349-9451

Claireware is functional porcelain made by Claire Weissberg in Brooklyn, New York. It is microwave, dishwasher and oven safe, but it is recommended that Claireware not be placed in a preheated oven. The glazes are lead-free and safe for food. Since Claireware is hand-thrown, carved, and fired to cone 6, there will be some variation in shape, size, and color from order to order. However, all work that leaves the studio must meet the same high standards.

Claire Weissberg, a native New Yorker, studied pottery with Clary Illian in Iowa, and with Chiyoichi Shimizu in Japan. She received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and currently makes urban folk pottery full time in her Brooklyn studio.

Claireware
543 Union Street, #2D
Brooklyn, NY 11215
(718) 875-3977
Claireware1@aol.com


Watch the Claireware segment on BCAT's "Neighborhood Beat" tv show (Episode 34).

*Read about the Claireware Christmas sale in The New York Times, Thursday, December 5, 2002*
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Make sure to purchase these books by Thomas (Mr. Claireware) Rayfiel at amazon.com: Colony Girl, a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, Eve in the City, or his latest, Parallel Play. Please click on the links below.