CERAMICS HANDMADE BY LAURA SCARIANO EMAIL: INFO@LAURASCARIANO.COM PHONE: 504.373.4475
STUDIO: RELOCATED TO THE NORTHSHORE OF NEW ORLEANS
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Laura Scariano is happy to once again be living in her hometown of New Orleans, reconnected to her roots. Louisiana provides plenty of inspiration-- the marshlands, pelicans, beautiful trees, abundant seafood, music and architecture.
Laura has relocated her studio to the Northshore of New Orleans. 30 min from the French Quarter. You can set up an appointment to view her work, but must wear a mask to visit. You can order online and Laura will deliver to your doorstep. All events have been cancelled due to Covid19. At some point she will resume monthly markets, like Piety in Exile and Palmer Park Arts Council Market. Laura travels to juried art shows around the Southeast, so check her schedule of events on the home page. Laura is a member of the Louisiana Crafts Guild and Arts Council New Orleans.
Laura Scariano has practiced ceramics since attending Penn's design program. She studied with Mark Lueders, who introduced ceramics into Penn's curriculum, from whom she learned the basic principles of working with clay and how to handbuild large ceramic sculptures.
In 2001 she took a course in glaze chemistry with Peter Lane at Greenwich House Pottery. This sparked her interest in making her own glazes and exploring the various combinations of minerals to create beautiful colorful glazes, viewing glazing as an art form of its own.
Laura learned to throw on the wheel mainly from Larry Stern and with some instruction from Nadeige Choplet at the Union Square Ceramics Center, formerly located on 17th Street by Union Square in NYC. She's also taken class and been a studio potter at Nadeige's studio Choplet Ceramics in Brooklyn.
A few years ago Laura participated in her first wood firing in Tony Moore's anagama-norborigama kiln in Cold Spring, NY. It's a 3 day firing process and Laura helped stoke the flames for one of the work shifts. Wood firing is awesome with the ash flying around the kiln creates unexpected gorgeous effects, and she hopes to do more wood firing one day.
All of Laura's current work is stoneware fired in an electric kiln to Cone 5. Food safe glazes are used on all functional pottery, which is dishwasher and microwave safe. She also does decorative work with terrazzo glass finish, such as her new wall pocket vases.
Check Laura's homepage for upcoming art shows to see if she will be in your area in the near future. You can also call to order pieces and have them shipped.