Potter from Corning, New York

Another potter who I met on our trip to Ithaca, New York, is Stacey Esslinger.
She, like Colleen McCall, who lives in Elmira not far from Ithaca, attended Alfred University for Ceramics.  She works in cone ten porcelain, which she rolls out into very thin slabs and textures with cloth patters pressed into the clay. 

Then she hand-builds these really lovely shapes using techniques you might associate with sewing garments: making darts, adding little "button" accents,

 The color palette here is in various shades of turquoise blues and lavender, but she also had pieces that were white with pink and lime green decorations,

 I like the texture of the high fired pure porcelain quite a lot.
On this cream and sugar set, the bottoms of the pieces are gently curved up on four sides,

 This is a little business card holder -- very practical!

 I was so lucky to meet her at the booth at the Ithaca festival!