Alice Woodruff Pottery

11/01/2024

Story Time: Whippet and Tourmaline.
Tourmaline has retired from his Kentucky Derby jockey days, but hasn't lost his love of the sport. Now a days, Tourmaline rides Whippet is figure eight patterns around the vegetable garden and backyard chimney, they are matched pair, carb loading, hot tubbing, icing sore muscles and even dreaming with peddling legs each night. They are hoping (hopping) to be a part of the post-professional amateur hose racing league in the Spring of 2025.
We are selling hares to finance the Warrior Women book reprint. Pre-order copies of the book and learn about opportunities to buy a hare for your home in out GoFundMe.
https://gofund.me/f780c3bc

10/28/2024

We are getting ready to re-print the Warrior Women book, if you would like to preorder a copy or support the project in a larger way, this is our GoFundMe.

And why exactly am I sharing photos of hares? Find out in the link ;-)

https://gofund.me/f780c3bc

10/26/2024

We are gearing up again! There will be three Warrior Women exhibitions in the next 18 months - three solo shows and associated events and talk and panels (oh, my!)

We have some needs and are asking for your help: The book at 150+ color pages will be reprinted to accompany these shows. This is an expense that we had hoped to share with the venues, but funding did not pan out as expected. So we are looking to our friends and fans and loved ones to help, if you saw the show in the last 5 years and said, "This needs to go big, how can I help?" This is the answer to your question - you can pre-order the new edition of the book, order an extra copy for your friends, and come to an auction of new work at our home on December 7th. ---> please see the GoFundMe for more details.

The Warrior Women are hitting the road. We have three confirmed shows in th… Alice Woodruff needs your support for Support Warrior Women: New Book Edition

06/21/2023

Two of the Warrior Women are going on the road! I'll be taking "X Gonzalez" and "I Choose Not" up to New York City for display in the Ceres Gallery from July 25 - August 19. This will be the first public showing of the Warrior Women in New York City. https://ceresgallery.org/

03/06/2023

We are "at it again." To recognize Women's History Month, I will be bringing 10 sculptures to UGA's Russell Library for an art talk talk and panel discussion followed by a reception. 1-4pm Saturday, March 11th

Submitted by Camie on Thu, 03/02/2023 Community members are invited to celebrate the strength and resiliency of women at a Women’s History Month event exploring the art of Watkinsville potter Alice Woodruff, who recently presented the exhibition Warrior Women: From Invisible to Formidable One Hund...

02/28/2020

Have you ever dreamed of hitting someone who took advantage of you? Meet NFL Pleasure #1

The story behind the work: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/sports/redskins-cheerleaders-nfl.html

02/27/2020

My take on one of the ballsiest artists I've read about Judy Chicago. Her “Dinner Party” features 39 ceremonial place settings, each featuring a stylized v***a, and celebrates the richness of women’s cultures through famous historical and mythical figures, from the Hindu goddess Kali to Virginia Woolf.

She will be on display at Glynn Visual Arts for Alice Woodruff's solo show Warrior Women II, Evolution.

02/26/2020

“Fear is the greatest chain which binds women and prevents their development, and fear is the one apparently big thing which has no foundation in life. Cast fear out of the lives of women and they can and will take their place ... as the absolute equal of man.”
-Anne Brigman, from the San Francisco Call newspaper, 1913

02/25/2020

We are two weeks out from the Celebration for Warrior Women at Glynn Visual Arts. This event is open to the public, female-identified guests only.

The first time we held this event, we welcomed powerful ladies Athens and Oconee. There were moments of extreme joy, powerful sharing, and even impromptu singing lead by Maggie Mason Hunter

02/24/2020

I'm re-posting this in honor of another "Hidden Figure" who died today. Let's say her name today, Katerine Johnson. Let's recognize her accomplishments, in math and in a white male-dominated NASA. For all the women, like Katherine and Poppy, who are under-appreciated at the time of their accomplishments, we salute you.

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/24/517784975/katherine-johnson-nasa-mathematician-and-an-inspiration-for-hidden-figures-dies

"Poppy" for Frances "Poppy" Northcutt - who is this leader? watch the attached video of Poppy Northcutt discussing being the first woman on NASA's Misson Control. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW971fnS2uA She, and other historical women, will be on display at Glynn Visual Arts in March as part of Alice Woodruff's Warrior Women II, Evolution. show.

02/24/2020

RBG - part of the Hero series

Did you know:
Ginsburg co-founded the first U.S. law journal to focus exclusively on women’s rights. And as director of the ACLU’s Women’s Rights Project, she argued six gender discrimination cases before the Supreme Court, winning five.

One of my most admired personal heroes, RBG was the first female professor at Columbia Law School to earn tenure. She has led the way to change laws that affect the culture of women’s rights and gender discrimination.

In her words, “Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.”

02/23/2020

Today, we are thinking about all the responsibilities women hold inside of them. Typically women hold traditions of home, childcare, community - call this the "mental burden" or call it unpaid labor. It's all the STUFF one shoulders while they just keep moving.

Meet "Chop Wood" - her story: “Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.”
-Zen Koan

This figure represents the heart of life - all of the extraordinary efforts necessary to run a home and family, a role that traditionally falls to women.

While more women than ever are educated and employed today (but still facing a wage gap), females still do the majority of household and familial tasks. As the population ages, women are the ones sandwiched between caretaking the babies, the old and now the very old.

And although family leave and sick days should be everyone’s concern, women as primary caregivers are the most affected - even though they are rarely the ones making policy.

Unpaid labor increasingly sets women up for retirement shortfalls and guarantees the poverty cycle for the next generation of caretakers. Add into the equation being African American, poor, uneducated, abused, and/or homeless, and the problem grows exponentially more grim with each circumstance.

02/22/2020

"Poppy" for Frances "Poppy" Northcutt - who is this leader? watch the attached video of Poppy Northcutt discussing being the first woman on NASA's Misson Control. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW971fnS2uA She, and other historical women, will be on display at Glynn Visual Arts in March as part of Alice Woodruff's Warrior Women II, Evolution. show.

02/21/2020

"Georgia" for Georgia O'Keeffe. Alice Woodruff's sculpture and Georgia O'Keeffe's 1931 painting Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue.

02/20/2020

"Lorena" was sold even before the first show in October of 2018. This spring a new set of fierce Warrior Women will be on display for Warrior Women II, Evolution. "Orchids of Asia" is equally weaponized and also got her revenge.

https://www.businessinsider.com/robert-kraft-orchids-of-asia-florida-prostitution-ring-spa-2019-2

02/20/2020

Thank you Glynn Visual Arts for the lovely press, we are looking forward to sharing the work with everyone.

Alice Woodruff’s exhibition of ceramic figurative sculpture opens at Glynn Visual Arts on Tuesday, March 10th with a special preview opening for women only. Men will get their chance at the GVA’s regular opening reception for the show on Thursday, March 12th. “Warrior Women Evolving” features female vessels that represent famous and unknown women. All are portraits of extraordinary strength and wisdom. Some of the n**e figures are draped, others have an "open belly" in which a tableau from their life is displayed. Each figure has a written history and story that accompanies the art. Much of the work is highly politicized and emotion-driven, in many cases created in response to conditions in the larger world such as the movement and the threat to women’s lives, safety and happiness. The body of work, as a whole, explores the evolution of female empowerment from helpless victim to weaponized champion, the value of "women's work" as well as more personal stories of cancer and motherhood. This exhibit is particularly important in view of the fact that 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing and protecting women's constitutional right to vote.

Woodruff's education started in the Arts and Crafts movement of the 1960s. She became a very successful production potter, supplying functional ceramics to crafts stores and museum gift shops in the southeast. In her forties, she switched gears, went back to school and became a nurse practitioner. After 13 years of nursing, she returned to clay, more recently focusing on sculpture rather than functional pots. However, Woodruff uses her experience as a skilled potter as the foundation of the sculptural work.

She lives and works in Watkinsville, GA. Alice Woodruff, a renowned craftswoman, and sculptor can now add "facilitator of stories" to her title. She hopes that viewing the work initiates the larger conversations of inequity and power within the community.

Exhibition Dates: March 10 – April 11, 2020

Women’s Only Pre-View Reception: Tuesday, March 10th, 5:30-7:00pm

Regular Opening Reception: Thursday, March 12th, 5:30-7:00pm

Informal Artist’s Talk: Friday, March 13th, 5:30-7:00pm

02/20/2020

Alice Woodruff's hair has come back since the first photo and this piece is finished. "Weeds in her Breast" will be on display at Glynn Visual Arts for the Warrior Women II, Evolution. show.

12/07/2019

YO YO YO! By request, mom says she will open the gallery tomorrow from 10-2 for sales. She has a limited inventory, but she is not making any more functional pots, when it's gone, it's gone.