Oxide Pottery

11/20/2025

The sun is shining in upstate New York this morning and headed in to town for a restock at the Memorial Art Gallery today— 🌈

08/02/2025

Good morning! Hang on- summer is flying! Today is the come by and see us! From 12-6 will there be new little critter heads? Yes’m.

03/02/2025

Coming soon in the earring department- big moons, little moons, big pencils, little pencils, purple crayon, green crayon, and a few **all the colors swooshes**

12/10/2024

https://obituaries.tharpfuneralhome.com/joseph-monk

It is with great sadness, that we report the passing of Oxide's visionary- Joe Monk. Joe renovated the Oxide building -brick by brick, investing in downtown Lynchburg when the Craddock Terry Hotel was in it's planning stages. He was good at finding potential. Chatham and Justin helped to finish the building with little touches, like hoisting a metal lion head from a Charleston, West Virginia bank building to affix to the front of the little purple shop. Joe retired from the Oxide business in 2011 but his commitment to art, craft, making, and doing continued until his passing on December 4th, 2024. If you are a friend of Oxide, you are a friend of Joe's. Thank you.

View Joseph Haynes Monk's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

11/03/2024

Last day for the fine craft show and sale. Favorites from the last kiln: swallow in orange, dancing dogs and small mouse head - works will be available in the and online shop update TBD

09/22/2024

Just a little shop update for the mountain mug lovers out there. Speckled stoneware, porcelain blue underglaze and pink glaze- also listed in white

05/26/2024

Stoneware and aluminum earrings are listed in the oxide pottery shop (link in bio) and shipping is free!

07/12/2023

ANNOUNCEMENT! ANNOUNCEMENT! Oxide is moving the shop all online! Our Main Street store will be open through the month of July. (Thursday through Saturday 11-6) We will miss the Main Street hullabaloo but are looking forward to our next chapter online. Cheers! OH- and photo credit to —capturing some of our favorite moments at the shop.

07/08/2023

A fresh batch of textured work out of the kiln today. Mugs, whiskey cups, juice glass- if you have the liquid, we have the receptacle. This is known as a reticulation glaze. Textures like lichen, crawl and beading fall into this category to name a few. It call comes down to glaze chemistry. The stabilizer ingredients are found in a higher ratio to the flux and glass former. This causes greater surface tension in the melting glaze during firing. The glaze then crawls/bead and move, creating a nice uniform texture. If you start getting sloppy at the end of the night, it serves as a nice anti-slip surface too. A little more grip for the inebriated user. If you are into that sort of thing.