Members of SUNY Oswego’s Clay Bodies Ceramics Club will sell a variety of homemade ceramic goods Feb. 17 as part of their fundraising vendor sale.

The sale, which will take place from 3-7 p.m. in the main lobby of Tyler Hall, will consist of student-made items ranging from bowls and mugs to vases and jewelry. 

“The sale is for ourselves and for any other club members that want to participate,” Antonia Cantu, the club’s vice president, said. “We’ve been working in the studio all semester and we just have a lot of work we want to sell.” 

Cantu additionally stressed the importance of the event not only as a fundraiser, but also as an opportunity for members to gain some experience marketing their goods.

“Everybody sets up their own table to give people an opportunity to learn how to sell things, learn how to set up a booth, and to sell their own work to raise money,” Cantu said.

Cantu and club President Genevieve Egan said the sale will not be as large in scale as their annual Empty Bowls Fundraiser and the number of goods on sale will vary from student to student. Egan said they expected around 300 items to be available compared to last semester’s Empty Bowls Fundraiser which saw close to 500 bowls on sale.

Funds raised during the event will go toward the Clay Club’s trip to the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts conference being held next month in Cincinnati. 

“I call it clay Comic-Con,” Cantu said. “It really is just a huge convention for clay nerds to come together and share their stuff and share how they do things.”

Club members were inspired to attend the conference after learning that SUNY Oswego Professor Renqian Yang would be displaying and selling some of her work there. 

“Our teacher’s going to be having an exhibition and she’s going to be selling mugs and stuff like that,” Cantu said. “We thought, ‘that sounds so fun, let’s all go!’”

“Clay club has very open studio hours, where you come in and myself, Genevieve and other club members will be here to help anybody that comes and just wants to make things with clay,” Cantu said. “It’s for anybody.”

For more information on the Clay Bodies Ceramics Club and their events, visit their page on SUNY Oswego’s Laker Life website, or attend one of their meetings, held each Friday at 4 p.m. in Tyler Hall’s ceramic studio, room 128. 

Photo by: Hannah Pinnock