Rudolph Clay Studios

Material Goods/Craft/Flea/Art

Alachua County, FL

Rudolph Clay Studios

Material Goods/Craft/Flea/Art

About

After a chance meeting at the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Cheyenne and Nigel found a fast friendship and mutual interest in making things, eating fancy cheese with friends, and engaging in general tomfoolery. We formed Rudolph Clay Studios as an umbrella business to promote the handmade in daily life. Individually, our work is aesthetically and conceptually different, and we both rely on unique references to create the content of our work. As Rudolph Clay Studios, we operate mutually, sharing obligations and opportunities for the advancement of our individual work and the success of the business. A mutual preference for theatricality and extravagance in presentation is evidenced by the promotion of our work and joint efforts toward fun and whimsy. In this way, we advocate for craft, sharing a piece of our story in a creative way, and use innovative gestures to create a cause for pause. Our hope is to elicit a shift in the value assigned to objects by educating people about the role of craft.

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Location

Gainesville, FL

Gainesville, Fl. 32601

Manager

Nigel Rudolph - Owner
Nigel is an archaeologist, studio potter, native Floridian, and proud Peruvian-American. Born in the gulf-coast city of Bradenton. After receiving a BA in cultural anthropology from the University of West Florida in 1998, he studied ceramics as a post baccalaureate student at the University of Florida, finishing in 2002. Nigel has held artist in residence positions at The Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee and the St. Petersburg Clay Company in St. Petersburg, Florida. He exhibits his work nationally in juried and invitational exhibitions, including at the 2005, 2007, and 2011 National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts conference. Nigel wears many hats; working full-time as a Public Archaeologist at the Crystal River Archaeological State Park, as well as being a studio potter, teacher, and husband. He and his wife, clay artist Cheyenne Chapman Rudolph, currently live in Gainesville, Florida.

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