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Throwing Sh*t! | Diana Adams, Rich Brown, Stephen Phillips, and April Adewole
Join us for 2023 Cultivating Community week from September 25 to October 1, 2023. Cultivating Community includes new and recently developed programming highlighting dynamic presenters and topics. Cultivating Community will be a series of Instagram Live sessions and week-long on-demand video presentations at no cost, though donations are welcomed.

Throwing Sh*t! | Diana Adams, Rich Brown, Stephen Phillips, and April Adewole

Throwing Sh*t! is an Instagram live series where Diana Adams of SampleHAUS and Rich Brown of Pottery32 unite to show you how to throw sh*t and interview other ceramic artists to bring diversity and fun to ceramic education.

Diana Adams, founder of SampleHAUS and host of Throwing Sh*t!. She started her ceramic journey at California State Dominguez Hills in 2005, and is now a full-time potter working in Long Beach, California. Her work is eclectic, graphic, and colorful, finding inspiration in African tribal markings, and color/geometric nods from the Bauhaus movement.

Rich Brown, “The Neighborhood Pott Dealer,” from Pottery32 and co-host of Throwing Sh*t!, is currently a full-time studio potter based in Hogansville, Georgia. Pottery for Brown is the “conduit for building relationships.” Brown started pottery at the age of 32, hence the name Pottery32 and continues to create beautiful functional ware.

Stephen Phillips is the founder of Stephen’s Potter House Productions (SPHP) and a regular guest on Throwing Sh*t!. SPHP was started in 2015 after Phillips graduated college in 2013. Currently part-time in his ceramic business, he plans to be full-time in the future. Known for his Raku Black Panther Series Vol. 2 and Color Contrast Series, Phillips also enjoys instructing new beginners at wheel throwing and the throwing of small-neck bottles.

Compton native, April Adewole, combines organic ceramic forms with vibrant color and bold texture. Inspired by the ocean, collected marks and the spirit of unknown ancestors, Adewole opened her own gallery, Adewole Arts, in San Pedro, California, in 2018. She also teaches out of her retail studio, the Clay Kitchen.