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Can’t wait to see all you friends in person @theredhookcoffee if you can make it! We will have updates on what we’ve been up to and just chat about how the year has been! Also feel free to bring work to show off!

Jinsik Yoo is a ceramic sculptor from Daejeon, South Korea. He creates work that abstracts the human form in order to think about desire, queer relations, and otherness. Yoo earned his MFA from Alfred University in 2019, and completed the residency program at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia following graduation. In January 2024, Yoo held his first US solo exhibition at Greenwich House Pottery. He presented his first solo show in Korea in July 2025 at Seoul’s DrawingRoom Gallery, where he is a represented artist. He joined the University of South Dakota as an Assistant Professor in fall 2025.

Jinsik will offer demonstrations from 8:30am to 11am on Monday, February 16th and Tuesday, February 17th with an Artist Talk Monday evening at 5pm. These events are all open to the public, please join us in welcoming Jinsik.

Mychelle (she/her) @tellus.fabulas

Tweaky, Tweaky; stoneware, wood/soda fire; Queercat Firing 2023 💗

Call for Entry for Between Us is officially open. @queeratmosphere is bringing a juried exhibition to The Elizabeth Holden Gallery!

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Call for Entry for Between Us is officially open. @queeratmosphere is bringing a juried exhibition to The Elizabeth Holden Gallery!

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Call for Entry for Between Us is officially open. @queeratmosphere is bringing a juried exhibition to The Elizabeth Holden Gallery!

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Call for Entry for Between Us is officially open. @queeratmosphere is bringing a juried exhibition to The Elizabeth Holden Gallery!

“Between Us” is an atmospheric exhibition celebrating the porousness between self, material, and community. In wood firing, raku, salt, soda, pit firing, and every atmospheric process, our work becomes a record of proximity~ what lies between us and the heat, between us and the air, between us and the people we fire alongside.

This exhibition highlights that relational space. We invite work that acknowledges how our environments~ kilns, land, weather, labor, chosen family~ shape the outcomes of our making. Like Queer theory itself, atmospheric firings insist that transformation is not a solitary act; it is co-created, interdependent, and gloriously unpredictable. The show honors the ways queer artists carve out space, make heat together, hold one another, and reimagine worlds through material practice.

This call is open specifically to queer artists, including those whose identities, practices, or lived experiences resonate with queer understandings of permeability, kinship, and collective becoming. Handbuilding, wheel throwing, casting, ephemeral forms, installation, and nontraditional methods are welcome. Atmospheric work is especially encouraged, including pieces influenced by or born from wood firing, raku, soda, salt, or other processes that emphasize exchange between flame, surface, and environment.

Jose (@erosiacc)

Incantation bowl: insistence. Stoneware. Reduction gas fired to cone 10 by Andrea Lallana in Ceramistas de Reñaca. Carbon trap shino. 2024. 10 x 11 x 7 cm.

Rob Mahon (@rclydemahon)

"Ripples", wild kaolin clay from southern Alabama, with a wild clay terra sigillata. Fired in a sidestoke firebox of a 5-day anagama woodfiring in Husser, Louisiana, in 2024

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QA is back and has a new website!! Check us out at queeratmosphere.org and sign up for our free newsletter.

Huge thanks to everyone involved in creating our new site!

QA is back and has a new website!! Check us out at queeratmosphere.org and sign up for our free newsletter.

Huge thanks to everyone involved in creating our new site!

Queer Atmosphere is growing!! We are in the process of forming a board and getting some volunteer positions like social media manager, fundraising positions, and regional reps. These roles will help us expand the reach of QA, and allow us to start bringing gender affirmative and identity conscious firing events to queer artists all over the country. The links to the board application and the volunteer application are in our bio, please check them out and refer any friends you think might be good for the roles as well. QA is community focused and community built, we can't wait to work with more of you, bring more events to you, and better serve the queer ceramics community. If you have any questions please email us at queeratmosphereceramics@gmail.com

Lots of love,
QA

@briannagerrish
Making biomorphic ceramics
high fired in reduction kilns

@transfunctional
Dakota Parkinson
sipping vessels (2023)
Wood kiln, reduction cool, stone inclusions, nuka glaze