MudhoneyZ Studio

We first met in 2013 as students in Haywood Community College's Professional Crafts - Clay program, and pretty early on, we realized that we all shared a similar happy… rooted in making. Not only pots, but also the less tangible, more vital stuff. Like making space for imagination, imperfection, all things illogical while splendid. We each thrive in taking all that in, wrapping it up, throwing it into our pots, and sending it out in the world. These similarities are what made us want to start a business together, and in 2014 we broke ground on Mudhoneyz Studio, the home for our business and so much more.
Building a studio and kiln together allows us to balance each others weaknesses and strengths, and share the workload of marketing, bookkeeping, overhead expenses, wood chopping, moving wood, moving bricks, land maintenance and the ever growing list of things you do when you own your own business.
This space and property have become a destination studio of sorts. A place where we will have the ability to teach classes, offer lessons to new and aspiring potters, a meeting space, a space for friends new and old to gather, find inspiration and share in community year after year.
We all have our moments of awe at what has happened so far--all the doors that have opened to make this possible. Community is what has made everything we’re doing possible. We believe that there’s good stuff in leaning on each other--in living a life together instead of going it alone.
It is impossible now to stand in this place and not feel the love and support of those who have committed to helping us bring our dreams to fruition. It radiates off the walls.