Studio Touya
Studio Touya is a handmade pottery studio located in Seagrove NC where Hitomi and Takuro Shibata set up studio and built Japanese style wood kiln. Our focus is to make simple& functional pottery by using local wild clay and wood firing technique. We named our pottery as "Touya" when we started our small pottery studio in Shigaraki, Japan, and it literary means "pottery house" in Japanese which we really like.
Touya UPCOMIng News and events
Workshop, Lecture and Exhibition at Longwood University
Farmville, Virginia, Feb 8th to 9th, 2024
Exhibition Opening Reception and Artist Talk at Bedford Gallery Open to Public: Feb 9th 3:30pm
A Wild Clay Pottery Workshop
Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts, Maplecrest, NY
June 21 - June 25, 2024
More Info: https://sugarmaples.coursestorm.com/course/from-nature-to-art-a-wild-clay-pottery-workshop
Exploring Forms: Hand-Building Workshop
AndersonRanch Art Center, Snowmass Village, CO
July 15 - 26, 2024
More info: https://www.andersonranch.org/workshops/workshop/exploring-forms-hand-building-c0708-24/
Book Release: Wild Clay, Creating ceramics and glazes from natural and found resources, Written by Matt Levy, Hitomi and Takuro Shibata, published by Bloomsbury Publishing and herbert press
Takuro and Hitomi have written our first book “Wild Clay”, with co-author, Matt Levy, and it’s released on Oct 25th, 2022.
This is our wild clay story and our journey from Japan to US, and from the past to today.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/wild-clay-9781789940923/
Special thanks to our dear friends: Josh DeWeese, Dean Adams, John Neely, Randy Edmonson, Bruce Gholson, Ed Henneke, Nancy Gottovi, Mark Zellers and Kate Oggel for their big support. And many thanks to our pottery friends in US and overseas for telling wonderful clay stories for this book.
Cover photo: NC wild raw clays by Takuro Shibata
ZOOM Gallery Talk Shigaraki: Contemporary Artists on an Ancient Tradition, Recorded February 23, 2023
Hosted by Joan B Mirviss LTD
Produced and edited by Bonnie B Lee, Joan B Mirviss LTD.
PANELISTS: PETER CALLAS, artist based in New Jersey, US. HITOMI and TAKURO SHIBATA, artists based in North Carolina, US. OTANI SHIRO, artist based in Shigaraki, Japan. NATSU OYOBE, Curator of Asian Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art, MI with LOUISE CORT, Curator Emerita of Ceramics, Freer Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Moderated by JOAN MIRVISS
Studio Talk 2022: Process and Perspectives in Clay 2022
Ceramics Monthly and Pottery Making Illustrated
Article: Telling Unique Stories by Hitomi Shibata
Past Event:
Celebration of Seagrove Potters Fall Studio Tour, Nov 18 & Nov 19, 2023
Residency Program, Japanese Studies at Carleton College Ceramics Studio, Northfield, MN, Oct 16 - 29, 2023
Northern Clay Center, American Pottery Festival, Minneapolis, MN, Sep 7 - 10, 2023
Clay AKAR, Yunomi Invitational, Online, Friday, August 4th, 2023
Seagrove Wood Fired Studio Tour, Seagrove, NC, June 3&4, 2023
Exhibition: “Collaboration in Craft”, Green Hill Center for NC Art, Greensboro, NC, Mar 11 - Jun 24, 2023
Penland School of Craft, CLAY ”Making and Place” April 30 – May 5, 2023
Celebration of Seagrove Potters Spring Studio Tour, Seagrove, NC, April 14th to 16th, 2023
Schaller Gallery: Studio Touya pottery Show, April 4th, 2023
Webinar: “Shigaraki” Contemporary Artists on an Ancient Tradition, Hosted by Joan B Mirviss LTD, February 23, 2023
