Funkware Pottery

Funkware Pottery located in Connecticut is the home of ceramic artist Joey Sage Jablonski. She makes unique and functional handmade pottery and sculpture incorporating themes of nature, such as her signature frog mugs, bowls, and vases.

Beginning to see was connected with beginning to feel. My work is very connected to how I feel -- the range of human emotions -- none better than another. I believe emotions exist to help our bodies and our souls communicate. They should be celebrated as the keys to knowing ourselves better, not locked away in the variety of ways that we do. In my work I celebrate feelings about nature, feelings about art, feelings of playfulness, feelings of pain, and feelings about what it's like to be a woman in this culture.
It is through CLAY that I express myself. Why clay?
To me, clay is a merging of form and spirit. Clay is the earth and imagination. The actual process of working in clay makes me feel as if I am touching the ground and touching the sky at the same time. While I love what I can do, I love the doing of it more. And throwing a bowl on the wheel is as important to feeding my spirit as modeling a sculpture.
But it is through the functional pieces that I am most able to share some of my feelings about life with others. When people take home one of my bowls, I imagine that maybe through the craziness of today’s American culture, for just an instant, when they are preparing a meal they’ll think -- Somebody made this. Another human being made it because she wanted to -- not just because she needed the money. Maybe a small reflection would occur, a seed, -- Am I doing what I love? Am I living close to my heart?

This is what my work is about --