Chelsea Dubick: Art & Design

12/02/2022

All set up, come say hi! Thanks to the for putting this together. Swipe for a selection of what's here. There are nearly 50 booths with a really nice variety. 😘

10/20/2022

A tasty soda dream. Up with the rest of the mug & cup party in the usual place. 😘.

10/18/2022

It's squash season bébé.
Up in the household section. 10% off if you get them both, they make a cute pair. Plus they're fun to make. One more coming out of the kiln tomorrow 🤞🏻.

10/18/2022

It's squash season bébé.
Up in the household section. 10% off if you get them both, they make a cute pair. Plus they're fun to make. One more coming out of the kiln tomorrow 🤞🏻.

10/14/2022

Scrumptious.

09/20/2022

Fired twice for the tastiest crystals. Bubblegum pink background is my new jam.

09/09/2022

Bringing a couple dozen alcohol inks and some watercolors to the Ravenswood Art Market tomorrow, we'll be set up from 11-6 at Cultivate Brewery on South Ravenswood & Leland both Saturday & Sunday. Still packing up some fresh new ceramics and a heap of seconds. So many artists and studios up and down Ravenswood, come check us out!

08/27/2022

true love, in color.
these little tweedie-fired teapots and some other colorful cuties will be up tomorrow night. They'll ship out Sept 8-9, then anything that's left (plus a lot of seconds) will be at the indoor market at for the on Sept 10-11.
soak up the sun, cuties!
thanks again to for these perfect soda surfaces 👑

08/26/2022

a love story.

07/29/2022

Treats on the shelf with a triceratops for company.

07/08/2022

To other artists who photograph their own things— how do you deal with this? These shots were taken at the same spot outside my apartment, same time, lighting, etc— just different backgrounds My iPhone at this point has better resolution than my “nice” 2008 camera so I’ve been using it for product photography, but if I put my things on a white background the auto settings dull and darken the colors and change it completely. I then have to spend time editing the photos to get the vibrancy back.
What cameras are you all using, what approaches?
My next shop update will just have brick and wood backgrounds, which I may prefer. It’s such a funny (bu****it?) idea that in order to take a “professional” photo of a thing you made by hand that will be used in other peoples hands to drink their tea and eat their soup in their kitchens then you have to photograph it on a swoop of paper without shadows so it looks like it’s floating in a void.
This piece was wheel thrown and altered, spray glazed and soda fired.

07/03/2022

Made a huge swirling nerikomi platter because I was in the mood for color and chance and chaotic but calming patterns and not throwing. Lil bandaid because hemoglobin makes the porcelain happier.

06/27/2022

The Girl I Guess voter guide has been enormously helpful. Last day for early voting in Chicago is today, I’ll be hitting the polls tomorrow with the rest of the people who were too caught up by the trash fire our rights are burning in to plan ahead. Full link is in bio, along with their PayPal link if you are so inclined.
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I felt like today was a particularly fitting time, so I went to in Chicago. I'm putting this out for those having a hard time accessing the latest . Consider this my digital palm card! Check out full coverage at girliguess.com. Vote to keep bodily autonomy on the books for everyone in Illinois, and then hit the streets to demand it stays that way.

06/10/2022

This weekend! I’ll be at Jon’s stop in Aurora at 2 S Stolp Ave with and
Saturday 9-6
Sunday 9-4
If you live nearby, stop in! Should be a fun Pride weekend in Aurora. Check out the other stops if they’re closer to ya!

05/16/2022

Hey Lillstreeters— summer classes are up! Lillstreet is adopting a mask optional policy, but individual teachers can require masks in their classes. I will be doing so, as will several others. Classes requiring masks will be marked on the website starting next week. I will be teaching 5 classes this summer:

Monday eve: Advanced Wheel

Tuesday 2-5: Intermediate Wheel

Tuesday eve: Intermediate Wheel

Thursday 2-5: Beginning Wheel

Thursday eve: Intermediate Wheel

If you want to make sure to sign up for a masked class, check in with teachers via email or insta or with the front desk, as classes may be filled up by next week when classes are marked as masked/not masked on the website.

See you around!

05/11/2022

Really colorful soda firing. The left side got a lot more reduction than the right, we’re still not exactly sure why, though there are theories.
Front stack
Back stack
Favorite treat
Tightly stacked door
Favorite nugget

05/11/2022

Pulled this out of the lovely ‘s kiln this afternoon. A new experiment from a whoops-what-now situation. I cut the mishima lines too deep while the clay was too wet. As it dried and shrunk it created a tectonic plate effect that only got more dramatic with firing. I filled the cracks and shapes with a combination of glazes and am jazzed about how it turned out.

04/20/2022

Funds will go to .for.ukraine and to La ferme de la Papote, who are housing Ukrainians in France. Hella art, hella plants, come by! Northwest Andersonville. 1743 w olive ave.

04/07/2022

03/04/2022

This extra curvy bloom cup made it into the Last Call show at which opens today online and in person. Link is in their bio to peruse the show. Thanks so much and . Fluff not included.

03/01/2022

Got to do a soda firing with the lovely, incomparable
It was such a bright spot and such a needed respite from the worry and heartache.
Hope you all are finding bright spots. I’ll post juicy treats from the unload in my stories, and I’ll be there tonight scraping shelves if you want to come say hiiiiiii.

02/05/2022

Helped load the soda kiln last night with and .
So fun playing Tetris with bisqueware. Dave is firing tomorrow, can’t wait for kiln Christmas on Tuesday.

01/26/2022

Collab season continues. This resplendent lady was a joint effort with . Gorgeous construction by Dave as a demo for his handbuilding class, surface decoration with slip, tinted clay and glaze by yours truly as a surface demo for my class.

01/25/2022

Gary () handed me one of his elegant vases to do a spray booth demo on last term. Big collab energy in 2022. Want to do something together? DM me! It’s a pandemic we’ve gotta make our own fun.

01/21/2022

Off to the bisque. Playing around with additions and b**b inspired repetitions. Get your mammograms scheduled!

01/17/2022

Marble onward.
Signed on the side so as no to disrupt the pattern on the bottom.
Finding it incredibly difficult to post art or do much of anything whilst analyzing new threats to our health and democracy but hey MLK day keep up the fight.

11/22/2021

Lots of things to drink from and a few other treats for this first update! Any orders placed will start to ship out Tuesday November 30th, so no need to worry about things arriving when you’re out of town. I’ll be adding my paintings and drawings on the update. This took me a bit longer than I expected BUT I’m so happy to have jumped ship to Shopify. Please let me know about any quirks with the new site. Thanks for looking! Happy to have the things I’ve been playing with out in full view ❤️. LINK IN BIO

11/23/2020

A curvy babe all dressed up in crimson and dots for your . This and other cups and mugs are up in my shop if you’re bored with your drink ware and want to spice things up. I throw them on the wheel then fold in the curves while still quite damp, carve to define curves and add dots with slip when leather hard, fire it then take it to the spray booth for glaze then fire it again. It’s a long and involved multi step process I’m very into. Link in bio! $72 plus shipping. Free pickup at Lillstreet if you’re in Chicago ❤️

04/11/2020

This is how the movement in my cumulus bloom pieces evolves. When it’s barely firmed up I’ll trim the excess support clay off the bottom then start folding in curves with my finger or a wet sponge from the inside and outside. The movements are decided organically and intuitively. Later when it’s leather hard I’ll take it off the bat and I’ll carve to define the curves.
Love and peace on this Saturday.

03/23/2020

I checked and it’s Monday, so time it is. I made all of these as class demos at then used them to play with different handles and glaze combos. $40 each plus shipping, PayPal or Venmo is dandy. Hope you’re all finding ways to stay calm. ❤️
(Alternate views of each mug if you swipe)

@ Chicago, Illinois

03/23/2020

I checked and it’s Monday, so time. All these are demo mugs that I used to try out different handles and glazes. $40 each, DM to purchase.
Hope you’re all finding ways to calm yourselves. ❤️.
(Swipe for alternate views of each)
@ Chicago, Illinois

03/03/2020

The two vessels I made this week, waiting for a bisque fire. They both started out as class demos, then one took over my week.
When my dad asked Jim Foose, an incredible Kentucky watercolor artist, how long one of his paintings took, he said something along the lines of “40 years, 3 months and 2 hours”. Each piece you make carries a life spent making, looking at and considering your own art and the art made by other people’s hearts, energy, honed talent and the voracious need so many of us feel to make and keep making. What to do with what we’ve made and how to build a career and an income out of it all is the harder part for so many of us.
If you’re into more angles of wrinkles and folds and a few paintings by , swipe on. ❤️
@ Lillstreet Art Center

02/19/2020

This is the second of the two pieces up in the show at the Bray right now. If you happen to be in Helena, bundle up and stop by!
@ Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts

02/14/2020

Happy Valentine’s Day! Finished my first 9 part mold last night and am relieved and still dirty. I’ll be teaching a basics moldmaking class at in the spring, with 1-3 part molds, NOT 9. Slipcast copies of this voluptuous lady will be available in the spring as well. Thinking bowls and pendant lights in translucent porcelain.
❤️❤️❤️
@ Lillstreet Art Center

12/17/2019

🌞 + 🌷
This is the only bloom pot I’ve done recently in stoneware. The texture isn’t as fun (for me) to work with but I like how differently it takes the glaze. And love loving this sunny cold day.

12/16/2019

Little slideshow of what’s up on Etsy. More voluptuous pots in the new year but lots of surface design vessels are posted and looking for a home with a window to sit by 🤗.
Finally mostly unpacked and realizing just how many things I made while I was in Savannah. Time to let it goooooo