American ceramics mix dinnerware factories with studio potters that sell to the same tables. East Fork Pottery makes handmade stoneware dinnerware in North Carolina, honest pots built for daily tables. In South Carolina, Jacob Preston Pottery sells lead-free, food-safe pots finished in earthy Lowcountry glazes. Sarah Glass Ceramics runs a woman-owned Flagler Village studio with wheel-thrown work and classes. Galleries and museum shops round out the list for buyers who want one bowl rather than a service. A mug you reach for every morning earns its place, while the rest of the shelf can wait.
East Fork makes durable, everyday stoneware dinnerware in Western North Carolina, known for its distinctive glazes. It grew from an Asheville-area studio into a nationally recognized homegoods brand while keeping production and its flagship store local.
Best for Handmade stoneware dinnerware; Modern ceramic homegoods; Made-in-NC pottery
Grovewood Gallery presents American art and craft across two floors in Asheville's historic Grovewood Village, with work by makers from around the country. Established in 1992, the gallery occupies a site once used by Biltmore Industries for weaving and woodworking. Visitors can explore studio furniture upstairs and outdoor sculpture alongside smaller works ranging from glass to ceramics and jewellery.
Best for American craft, studio furniture and outdoor sculpture in Asheville
Grovewood Gallery occupies the former weaving and woodworking complex of Biltmore Industries, on eleven acres beside the Omni Grove Park Inn in Asheville. Edith Vanderbilt founded that enterprise with two teachers, Eleanor Vance and Charlotte Yale. By the late 1920s, under Fred Loring Seely, it ran more than forty looms turning out handwoven wool fabric that shipped as far as China and Uruguay.
The customer list from those years ran to Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Helen Keller, along with several American presidents and first ladies.
The gallery that fills the site now represents over 350 artists and craftspeople from across the United States, in a collection running from tableware to furniture. It is not a museum shop bolted onto a historic site. Working artist studios sit on the grounds, and craft demonstrations run through the year alongside rotating exhibitions.
The rest of the village holds the Biltmore Industries Homespun Museum and an antique car museum. A docent-led history tour ends inside the original Dye House, which is otherwise closed to the public and still holds the dye vats and the spinning mule.
Operating from 44 Westgate Parkway in Asheville, The Village Potters Clay Center runs weekly pottery classes, workshops, and a multi-year Advanced Studies Program, and distributes Laguna, Standard, and KYMudworks clays. It is a nonprofit whose resident potters include Sarah Wells Rolland, Judi Harwood, Julia Mann, Katie Meili Messersmith, Karen Dubois, and Maria Andrade Troya.
Woolworth Walk fills a restored 1930s Woolworth's five-and-dime with two floors of art and craft from more than 160 local and regional artists, spanning painting, jewelry, pottery, and glass. A working soda fountain still operates inside.
Best for Locally made art and craft; Discovering many regional artists; Historic soda-fountain visit
For years this Austin importer has brought in folk art, handicrafts and textiles from Latin America, Asia and beyond. Its shelves hold milagros, Day of the Dead art, ceramics and other handmade goods.
Best for Milagros, Day of the Dead art and handmade ceramics
Organized in 1954 and housed since 2008 in the old Woolworth on West Texas Avenue, the Art League sells local members' work in many media from the gallery and runs classes and a summer camp. Visit Baytown notes the building carries the city’s largest mural, a trompe-l’oeil wrapping the front and west wall.
Best for Locally made art, ceramics, jewelry and small gifts
Stitch and Tickle sells handmade leather bags designed by Sophie Truong, established in 2011, alongside linen clothing, ceramics, jewelry, and home textiles from its SoWa studio-store at 63 Thayer Street in Boston, which opened in May 2019. Products include hobo, crossbody, and shearling cross-body bags.
Bushwick Ceramics, founded by artist Zofi Lipton, runs a full-service pottery studio at 228 Suydam Street and 698 Hart Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn, with 9 pottery wheels, 5 clay bodies, and more than 25 dipping glazes. It offers monthly memberships, 6-week wheel-throwing and hand-building classes, and one-day workshops.
Dirtbag ArtHaus, a women-founded ceramics and mixed-media studio at 229 Cook St in Bushwick, Brooklyn, has 15-foot ceilings, on-site kilns, 7 wheels, and 13 workstations. It offers wheel throwing, handbuilding, and painting through 3-, 6-, and 8-week courses and one-night Creative Try Nights, for ages 17 and up.
Not Work Related offers private pottery wheel classes near the Greenpoint Avenue G stop in Brooklyn, with 90-minute sessions for up to two participants at $110 each, plus glazing and firing of the finished pieces. The studio is currently pausing regular classes but still runs small group and corporate sessions.
Wilcoxson Brooklyn Ceramics runs a design and pottery studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, offering workshops, classes, private lessons, open studio hours, and a Clay Club membership. The studio also sells ceramics through its retail shop.
Best for Pottery classes and clay club memberships
Choteau Arts runs a studio and gallery at 204 Main Avenue North showing and selling Montana-made paintings, sculpture, ceramics, and jewellery. The community arts space also hosts classes and rotating exhibitions.
Miller Lane Mercantile in Denver — Beautifully-crafted eco-friendly kitchenware, ceramics, home decor, women's accessories and stationery celebrating 'simple goods for slow living'.
Best for Beautifully-crafted eco-friendly kitchenware, ceramics, home decor, women's accessories and stationery
Founded in 1903 and still throwing pots and pressing architectural tile inside its National Historic Landmark studio at 10125 E Jefferson Ave, Pewabic is known for the iridescent glazes that clad landmarks across the city. The working studio also runs a ceramic-arts education center and a shop selling handmade vessels, ornaments and custom tile.
Best for Iridescent-glaze tiles and handmade ceramics
Katie Cooney's shop at 160 East Little Avenue carries handmade jewelry, ceramics, homewares, and fine art from makers across the Rocky Mountain West, alongside a studio used for workshops and events. Teton Valley voters named it the area's best retail shop three years running, from 2023 through 2025.
Best for Artist-made jewelry, ceramics and homewares
At 25 South Main Street, this gallery and shop shows fine art from Teton Valley artists alongside pottery, clothing, souvenirs, and custom framing. It also runs art classes and sip-and-paint sessions.
Paula Greif hand-builds painterly, organic ceramics inspired by American and Mexican folk art from her Warren Street studio, open to visitors by appointment. The pieces are sold direct from the studio and through her online shop rather than through wholesale distributors.
Sandstone Gallery has held the same spot on Gallery Row since opening in 1981, making it the longest-running gallery in town, and shows original oils, ceramics, and sculpture from nineteen resident artists. Ten of those artists have also exhibited at Laguna Beach's Festival of Arts.
Craft Contemporary Shop sits inside the museum at 5814 Wilshire Boulevard, selecting jewelry, ceramics, books, stationery and artist-made objects that connect with the institution’s craft-focused exhibitions. The museum, founded in 1973, is a nonprofit devoted to contemporary art made through craft media and processes, and shop purchases support its exhibitions and programming.
Sheldon Ceramics designs and makes handmade stoneware and dinnerware, organised into collections such as Farmhouse, Silverlake, Vermont, and Indigo. Vases, bowls, plates, and full dinner sets are sold through the studio's online shop.
4 Ravens Gallery in Missoula showcases contemporary fine craft including artisan jewelry by Dona Miller, bronze and clay sculpture by Maryann Eikens, handmade porcelain by Lisa Ernst, and felted wool and silk wildlife paintings by Karen Straight. The gallery hosts monthly shows, guest artists and live music events.
The Artists' Shop is Missoula's longest-operating artist-owned cooperative gallery, opened in 1990 in downtown Missoula and now featuring work from over 70 regional and local artists including jewelry, ceramics, wooden items and glass work.
In Naples' Crayton Cove since 2007, this contemporary craft gallery and gift shop sells American-made jewelry, pottery, glass, furniture and whimsical decor. Its direct online store ships handcrafts and gift cards for those who can't visit in person.
Best for Craft gallery, gift shop, handmade jewelry, pottery
Located inside the Frist Art Museum at 919 Broadway in Nashville, the gift shop stocks handcrafted jewelry, ceramics, textiles, and exhibition catalogues tied to shows like International Surrealism from Tate. It does not sell online, but members get a standing 10 percent discount and can shop in person during the museum's posted hours.
Best for Located inside the Frist Art Museum at 919 Broadway in Nashville
Housed inside the Ogden Museum Store, the Center for Southern Craft & Design gives Southern artisans a platform to sell jewelry, ceramics, glass, and textile work, with pieces available for purchase both in the museum store and through its Artist Spotlight exhibitions. The Center also hosts recurring programs like Craft Happy Hour and the annual Art of the Cup ceramics exhibition.
Best for Craft, ceramics, jewelry, Southern artisans
John Derian Company has made decoupage by hand in New York since 1989, pasting 18th and 19th century prints onto glass plates and trays. The first shop opened in 1995 on East 2nd Street in the East Village, where three stores now stand. Collaborations include Astier de Villatte ceramics and Designers Guild fabrics.
Best for Vintage prints and botanical illustrations
John Derian Company was established in 1989, a few years after John Derian began a one-man decoupage business in Boston. He moved to New York in the early 1990s and hired a team of artisans as orders grew. His first shop opened in 1995 on East 2nd Street in the East Village. That quiet block became his creative hub. The company now runs three shops there at numbers 6, 8 and 10, with a seasonal store in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The decoupage is still made by hand in the New York studio by a small staff of artisans. They cut and paste imagery from Derian's collection of 18th and 19th century prints and lithographs onto glass plates and trays, with bowls and paperweights. In 2009 he added postcards, gift tags and tote bags to complement the decoupage line. Since 2011 his imagery has appeared on the white tableware of Astier de Villatte, and since 2018 on fabrics and wallpapers made with Designers Guild. A collaboration with Target began in 2010. One with Artisan Papergoods in 2020 brought puzzles and notebooks, with notepads. A candle with LAFCO New York followed in 2018. The shops also carry holiday objects from Ino Schaller, a German family business founded in 1894. A wall calendar marks each month with blooms from the print archive.
This Finger Lakes maker hand-paints ceramics, enamelware and home decor, including its Courtly Check pattern. Its flagship store and workshops occupy a lakeside farmstead in the village of Aurora, where the grounds and studios are open for tours.
Best for Hand-painted ceramics, enamelware and whimsical home decor
YB Wild Pottery fires saggar and raku ceramics in Queensbury, best known for lake platters that render Lake George, Lake Placid, and Schroon Lake in glazed clay. The maker also throws functional mugs, bowls, and plates alongside the decorative lake-themed pieces.
Best for Handmade lake-themed pottery and ceramics
Moon + Arrow began as a pop-up for Chelsea Pearce's handmade jewellery and vintage finds before settling on Fabric Row in Queen Village. The shop now lists 742 South 4th Street, where fine jewellery in brass and silver sits with apothecary goods, ceramics, clothing from independent makers. Visiting artist residencies and workshops run through the year. A children's section trades as Little Moon + Arrow.
Best for Handmade jewelry by Chelsea Pearce plus vintage and independent makers
Chelsea Pearce started Moon + Arrow as a pop-up selling vintage wares and her own handmade jewellery, and the shop describes that beginning on its about page. It settled on Fabric Row in Queen Village and has stayed there since. The Temple News profiled the boutique in 2015, when it stood at 754 South 4th Street and stocked pieces by local artists alongside Pearce's own work. Pearce grew up in Philadelphia, studied metalwork at the Tyler School of Art and then went to Florence to learn jewellery making in an older tradition. Her designs draw on geometry and on alchemical symbols connected to metal. The shop now lists its address as 742 South 4th Street, and its own blog marks fifteen years of trading. The floor carries fine jewellery in brass, sterling silver, gold. Apparel, apothecary goods, ceramics, glassware, books fill the back rooms. Moon + Arrow also runs a children's section under the name Little Moon + Arrow. Visiting artist residencies and in-store workshops bring makers in for a month at a time. The buying leans toward handmade and vintage pieces from independent makers rather than wholesale brands.
Practical Art is a Phoenix retail gallery that has sold locally made ceramics, prints, and original artwork from over 200 artists for more than eighteen years. The shop runs rotating exhibitions alongside its year-round inventory of mugs, art prints, and gifts, sold both in-store and through its website.
Contemporary Craft, at 5645 Butler Street in Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville neighborhood, fosters the use of traditional craft materials such as ceramic, fiber, glass, metal and wood to make art. The organization operates galleries, working studios with workshops, and educational programs.
Maine Potters Market, a pottery cooperative at 376 Fore Street in Portland's Old Port, was established in 1978. The shop sells handmade pottery from its member potters, each with a distinctive style.
Earthen is an independent, woman-owned ceramic studio and shop at 142 Fillmore Street in Lower Haight, San Francisco, operating since 2012 and based in Oakland, run by a team of two women who handcraft each piece and release new designs monthly. The shop also carries curated homeware, skincare and pantry items from independent artisans.
Peter Luong grew up in San Francisco's Richmond District inside his family's traditional Chinese apothecary, then spent years working at Red Blossom Tea, the Chinatown tea shop his parents had opened, before starting Song Tea & Ceramics in 2013.
Best for Small-batch Chinese and Taiwanese teas with handmade ceramics
Peter Luong grew up in San Francisco's Richmond District inside his family's traditional Chinese apothecary, then spent years working at Red Blossom Tea, the Chinatown tea shop his parents had opened, before starting Song Tea & Ceramics in 2013. The name comes from the 9th-century Song Dynasty, a period of Chinese art and culture Luong treats as a reference point for both the tea and the ceramics the shop sells alongside it.
Luong makes twice-yearly sourcing trips to China and Taiwan, deliberately looking for teas that present a real tasting challenge rather than safe, familiar profiles, and the tea studio in Lower Pacific Heights doubles as a showroom for handmade ceramic teaware chosen with the same eye. The operation stays intentionally small — a five-person team handling both the tea program and the ceramics curation.
Having grown up inside one Chinatown tea business before building his own more design-forward one two decades later, Luong's shop reads as a second generation refining what the first one started.
Heath Ceramics has made handmade dinnerware in California since 1948, along with its Heath Tile. Dinnerware is made by hand in Sausalito and tile in San Francisco.
Bay Area Design & Landscape has worked Clear Lake yards from Red Bluff Road in Seabrook for more than forty years. The garden shop sells plants, pottery and fountains beside a design practice.
On East Wheat in Woodville, Country to Classy prints shirts, rents party tables and yard games, and keeps a walk-in pottery counter. The same room takes alterations and sewing classes for adults and children.
A Homewood shop at 2933 18th Street South curating Alabama-made products, from candles, bath, and body goods to pottery, gourmet sauces, snacks, and locally themed apparel. Gift baskets and corporate gifting are built around the state's makers.
Pieces by current resident artists and exhibition participants may be purchased beyond the lobby shop. A portion of proceeds supports working craft artists, and the cashless counter treats every sale as final.
Best for Unique jewelry, pottery, baskets, home décor, handbags, clothing by internationally acclaimed
Ben Owen Pottery, at 105 Ben's Place in Seagrove, North Carolina, has been in the Westmoore-Seagrove area since 1959, with Ben Owen III's forefathers having come from England in the late 1700s to work in pottery. The studio's storage jars and utilitarian wares reflect traditional designs alongside Asian influences, and the showroom includes a family museum and hosts kiln openings three times a year.
Bishop's Stock has represented Delmarva-region painters, sculptors, and craftspeople from its Snow Hill gallery, rotating a featured artist and featured wines every month. The gallery sells paintings, ceramics, fiber art, and jewelry alongside a curated selection of wines by the bottle or case.
Joan Mallick founded Block Island Blue Pottery in 1986, and her daughter Stephanie now runs the shop, throwing ceramics and designing apparel. The clothing carries Stephanie's hand-drawn illustrations of the island's marine life and historic landmarks.
Best for Island pottery and illustrated apparel
Joan Mallick founded the pottery in 1986; her daughter Stephanie runs it now, throwing the ceramics and designing the apparel — a two-generation island workshop where the clothing carries Stephanie's hand-drawn illustrations of Block Island's marine life and historic landmarks. Island pottery and illustrated apparel, made where the subject matter lives.
Cameron Trading Post has specialized in Native American crafts since 1916 along the Little Colorado River Gorge near the Grand Canyon's South Rim, selling Navajo rugs in Ganado, Crystal, Burntwater, Two Grey Hills, Teec Nos Pos, pictorial and storm pattern styles. It also carries Hopi pottery and kachinas, silver and turquoise jewelry, and Apache baskets and Plains beadwork.
This makerspace and shop stocks work by Central Coast artisans, from hand-thrown ceramics and macrame to leather wallets, knife sheaths and hand-poured candles. It also runs craft kits and maker classes for ages thirteen and up, and invites local makers to sell through the storefront.
Best for Locally made ceramics, leather goods and craft classes
Chilmark Pottery is Geoffrey Borr's studio and gallery in a shingled barn at 145 Field View Lane, West Tisbury on Martha's Vineyard, working with clay here since 1982. Visitors can watch potters at work, buy the handmade pieces in seascape and copper-red glazes, and take clay classes.
Best for Watching potters at work, seascape and copper-red glazed pottery
Cinnabar fills a Burton Drive shop with folk art from around the world, milagros and crosses, real-leaf lamps and its own line of custom-built sofas, favouring recycled and fair-trade materials. Dia de los Muertos figures and Barro Canela pottery anchor the color-driven mix.
Best for Global folk art, home decor and custom sofas
A working pottery studio and shop selling wheel-thrown and hand-built stoneware made on site. It also runs wheel-throwing and hand-building classes for beginners and returning students.
Coming Soon mixes vintage furniture with contemporary pieces intended as future collectibles, plus smaller gifts for compact budgets. Same-day pickup is often possible, while furniture sales are final and sold as-is.
Best for Playful home objects, including vibrant glassware, quirky ceramics, sculptural candles and lighting
The nonprofit that protects Corolla's Banker mustangs runs a museum and shop in an old schoolhouse on Corolla Village Road, selling handcrafted ceramics, ornaments, bracelets and branded apparel. Proceeds fund the herd's veterinary care and conservation of the Colonial Spanish horses that roam the northern beaches.
Best for Handcrafted goods supporting wild-horse conservation
Craft Alliance's Gallery Shop sells handmade pottery, jewelry, and fiber art from local and national artists on consignment, open every Third Friday and by appointment inside its Delmar Boulevard art center. An expanded online shop lets customers browse the same handmade selection year-round, with proceeds supporting the nonprofit's education programs.
It is best known for Handmade goods from local and regional artisans — jewelry, home decor, prints, ceramics; craft-focused shop supporting the maker community.
This Oak Bluffs gallery on Martha's Vineyard carries contemporary American-made craft across jewelry, pottery, blown glass, turned wood, garden art and whimsical critters from dozens of studio makers. The full inventory is browsable and buyable through its direct online storefront as well as on the island.
Best for Craft gallery, American handmade, jewelry, ceramics, glass, woodwork
In the Village of West Greenville arts district, Darin Gehrke throws Asian-influenced functional pottery, from mugs and teapots to vases and tableware, with a contemporary edge. The studio doubles as a gallery and takes custom commissions.
Best for Asian-inspired handmade functional pottery
Set in an 1898 island home shaded by live oaks, Books to be Red is Ocracoke's independent bookstore paired with Deepwater Pottery, offering curated titles alongside locally made pottery and handmade gifts. Shoppers can visit the School Road store or order books through the shop's Bookshop.org page.
Best for Bookstore, pottery, handmade gifts, local craft, gift shop
Delaware Bay Clay runs a pottery storefront at 818 Kings Highway on Lewes Beach, hand-painting utilitarian ceramics with coastal-inspired imagery that the studio describes as offering a local perspective of Delaware coastal life. The shop keeps daily hours from 8am to 4pm, a few blocks from the water.
Best for Hand-painted utilitarian pottery with coastal Delaware imagery
A Durham studio making handmade pottery with botanical imprints, pressing vintage lace and real plants into functional vessels. Each piece is one-of-a-kind and designed to be used rather than displayed.
Duke Pottery, at 855 County Rd. 93 in Roscoe, NY in the Catskills, is run by potter Carolyn Duke, who works in raku, high-fired and low-fired stoneware including Sea Forms, Field Flowers and Horsehair and Barrel Fired lines. The studio's gallery and gift shop also features photography by Dana Duke and is open by appointment Friday through Monday.
Earth Art Studio in Sister Bay, Door County features original hand-crafted work from over 50 local and regional artists spanning pottery and clay tiles, blown and fused glass, jewelry made with Lake Michigan beach glass, garden art and copper sculpture.
Edgecomb Potters, now trading as Maine Pottery Co, has thrown and glazed its own porcelain in the Boothbay region since the 1970s, known for a signature palette of layered high-fire glazes. Its flagship gallery in North Edgecomb also carries jewelry and glass from other American makers.
Founded in 1974 when potter John converted an old fruit barn into a studio, gallery and home after training under Wisconsin master potter Abe Cohn. Four decades on it still throws functional, everyday pottery built on the idea that a humble mug should feel good in the hand.
A working pottery studio and gallery set inside an 1860s log cabin on Water Street in Ephraim, open seasonally from May through October. The potters throw functional stoneware and artistic vases on site, releasing new pieces through the season.
Best for Working pottery studio and gallery set inside an 1860s log cabin
A cooperative gallery on Main Street in Manchester Center, staffed by the very Vermont artisans whose work fills it, from raku bowls and blown glass to handknit cardigans and carved wood. Walk in most any day and one of the makers is on hand to talk through their process and sell you the piece.
Best for Artisan-gallery, woodwork, pottery, glass, jewelry, textiles
Paul and Laurel Eshelman make functional red stoneware, contemporary and pared-back, from their studio in Elizabeth just outside Galena. Pieces are thrown to order, with a typical ten-to-twelve-week turnaround.
Fandango Trading in San Antonio sells Mexican folk art and Day of the Dead items including Catrinas figurines, paper mache, milagros, serapes and papel picado banners, along with traditional Mexican ceramic serving pieces like cazuelas and pozoleros.
Farmhouse Pottery hand-throws stoneware mugs, bowls and dinnerware at its Woodstock, Vermont studio, inviting visitors to shop the store or join a wheel workshop. Its handmade collections, from best-selling Silo mugs to seasonal cottage pieces, are also sold through its online shop.
Best for Hand-thrown stoneware and pottery-wheel workshops
Fate Accompli, on Lincoln Street in Sitka, is a gallery and gift shop owned by Ken and Rachel Fate, Sitkans for over 30 years, selling original Alaskan-inspired artwork alongside apparel, Deneen Pottery hand-thrown mugs and archival giclee prints.
Fisheye Ceramics, run by Kim Gilmour at 473 Main Street in Catskill, NY, hand-forms and throws organically shaped, modern ceramic pieces for the table and home on a potter's wheel. Each piece is one-of-a-kind, and the studio welcomes visitors Thursday through Sunday, 12-5pm, by appointment.
Run by John-Michael and Hannah Forman from the historic St. Elmo neighborhood, this studio throws thousands of functional ceramic pieces a year by hand. The wheel-thrown wares are made for everyday use with a deliberately warm, personal sensibility.
Four Corners Gallery represents South Carolina Lowcountry painters and makers in Old Town Bluffton, hanging original coastal landscapes and figurative work alongside pottery, glass and jewelry. The gallery also offers custom picture framing.
Best for South Carolina Lowcountry coastal landscapes, pottery, glass, and jewelry
Gallery Fifty-Five is a member-owned cooperative gallery in downtown McCall on Payette Lake, showing over twenty local artists across painting, ceramics, glass, jewelry, photography and woodwork. Work is for sale seven days a week at its Lake Street space.
A design and furniture studio founded by Constance and Jamey Garza in Marfa, Texas, making saddle-leather stools, handwoven Garza pillows and textiles alongside curated ceramics and homeware. Its online shop ships worldwide and its store at 124 Highland St is open Wednesday to Sunday, 1-5pm.
Operating since 1981, this one-potter studio on Route 25 throws functional high-fired stoneware finished with in-house glazes. Every piece is food-, dishwasher-, microwave-, and oven-safe, made without molds or machinery.
Best for Handmade functional stoneware from a decades-old studio
Grey Wolf Gallery in Old Town Scottsdale sells hand-crafted Native American jewelry, pottery, knives and handmade flutes, including an Elegance Collection with vintage and contemporary Zuni pieces, turquoise cluster cuffs by B. Shorty and squash blossom necklaces set with Royston turquoise.
Master potter Guy Wolff hand-throws and kiln-fires garden pots at his Bantam studio and shop, a craft his son Ben Wolff now carries forward alongside him, and the pots are prized by gardeners and designers for their traditional English-inspired forms. The studio sells directly through its own site and a guild of affiliated makers rather than through general retailers.
handMADE Montana's retail storefront at 212 Main Street in Polson stocks work from more than 75 Montana artists — pottery, jewelry, wall art, salves and clothing — alongside a full online shop and the state's seasonal MADE fair markets. The Polson location doubles as production space for REcreate Designs, one of the featured makers.
Best for Handicraft, Multi-Artist Retail, Pottery & Gifts
This Main Street gallery represents more than 200 North American artists across pottery, fine woodworking, and sterling-and-gold jewelry, including pieces set with local Petoskey stones. Sticks furniture and hand-thrown ceramics fill rooms arranged for slow browsing.
Best for Artisan pottery, jewelry, and Petoskey-stone pieces
Potter Heather Goff carves through white slip on raw clay to make functional dinnerware and decorative tiles at her Chilmark home studio, glazing with local clay and wood ash for ash- and salt-flecked finishes. Her tapestry, dragon, and hanging-eye tiles sell from a home gallery she shares with fellow potter Bill O'Callaghan.
Best for Carved folk-style pottery and decorative tiles
A café and gourmet grocer at 203 Tombstone Canyon that bakes everything on premises and serves salads, sandwiches, quiche, and pizzas with daily vegan and gluten-free options. The market side stocks imported cheeses, olives, chocolates, and pottery from India, Spain, Indonesia, and Mexico.
Stephanie and Thomas Hoadley have curated contemporary crafts and fine art at their Church Street gallery since 1985, showing jewelry, glass, pottery, wood and wearable pieces alongside paintings. Featured artists rotate through the space, with out-of-stock work available to order directly from the gallery.
Best for Curated fine crafts and contemporary art by American makers
Founders Mark and Sarah Batory run this working ceramics studio with beginner and intermediate classes plus memberships for independent potters. A small retail section carries work by local makers.
Best for Hands-on ceramics classes and locally made pottery
Idaho Made is a locally owned cooperative in Old Boise founded in 2010, staffed by a rotating cast of over 60 member artisans selling pottery, jewelry, stationery and sculpture. The shop describes its inventory as seasonal, changing with the rotating makers who staff it.
Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico
The retail arm of the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, this store is owned by New Mexico's 19 Pueblos and stocks pottery, jewelry, textiles and crafts sourced straight from Pueblo artists. Buying here sends money directly back to the makers and their communities.
Best for Authentic Pueblo pottery, silver-and-turquoise jewelry and Native crafts
On Main Street in Bar Harbor, Island Artisans represents scores of Maine craftspeople across pottery, jewelry, textiles, glass and wood. The Mount Desert Island gallery has gathered local handmade work for years.
Irish-born folk artist Bill O'Callaghan makes whimsical pottery, driftwood furniture, and fairy-tale sculptures at Island Folk Pottery on Marion's Way in Chilmark. His outdoor Fairy Sculpture Trail winds past dragons, castles, and tree spirits drawn from Irish folklore and Vineyard woodland.
Best for Folk pottery, sculpture, and driftwood pieces
Locally owned on Ocracoke Island since 1984, the Island Ragpicker stocks hand-crafted rugs, pottery, jewelry, toys, and locally carved goods. The Irvin Garrish Highway shop is open daily, and a selection can also be ordered through its website.
Best for Hand-crafted goods, home decor, pottery, jewelry
Jacob Preston has thrown functional stoneware in his Calhoun Street studio in Old Town Bluffton since the early 1990s, working at the wheel where visitors can watch mugs, bowls and platters take shape. The gallery sells his lead-free, food-safe pottery finished in earthy Lowcountry glazes.
Best for Gallery sells his lead-free, food-safe pottery finished in earthy Lowcountry glazes
Goodyear Cottage, 321 Riverview Drive, Jekyll Island, Georgia
Housed in the historic Goodyear Cottage, this nonprofit runs a gallery and gift shop of rotating monthly shows alongside guilds for pottery, watercolor, weaving, and needlework. Its Jekyll Singers vocal ensemble and open studio hours make it as much a working artists' clubhouse as a retail stop.
Best for Local Jekyll Island artist and craft guild work
Jeremy and Allie McFarlane throw handmade stoneware at their studio in Montana City just south of Helena, and show other regional potters' work in the gallery. The studio also runs classes and rents wheel time to the public.
Jugtown Pottery, established in 1917 at 330 Jugtown Road in Seagrove, North Carolina, fires its stoneware in a reduction kiln and a wood-fired Groundhog kiln, using glazes such as Woodsmoke, Honey Amber, cobalt and ash glazes. The pottery makes serving platters, pitchers, mugs, planters and teapots.
The Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea, opened in 2003 at 200 Artisan Way, features a juried retail selection of fine art, pottery, glassware, jewelry, textiles, and quilts from more than 900 Kentucky makers. It also hosts weekend artisan demonstrations and runs the Artisan Cafe & Grill, with free admission.
Best for Juried kentucky made crafts and demonstrations
King Galleries, with locations in Scottsdale and Santa Fe, specializes in Native American pottery from San Ildefonso, Santa Clara, Hopi, Zuni, Acoma, Jemez, Kewa, Taos, Diné, Cochiti and Laguna communities, featuring artists Maria Martinez, Grace Medicine Flower, Dextra Quotskuyva, Roxanne Swentzell and Tammy Garcia. Travel & Leisure Magazine praised the gallery for elevating the art form beyond Southwestern cliches.
Lema's Kokopelli Gallery is a family-owned business operating since 1987 selling Native American jewelry and Southwest art from Hopi, Navajo, Zuni, Santo Domingo and Kabana artisans, including Hopi silver overlay, Navajo turquoise and silver settings, Zuni stone inlay, and Santo Domingo beadwork. It also carries Pueblo pottery from Acoma, Hopi, Santa Clara and San Ildefonso.
Potter Mark makes hand-thrown and slab-built functional porcelain in Humboldt County, work he has done full time since earning an art degree from Humboldt State in 1976. Each signed piece is fired to 2400 degrees and made ovenproof, microwave-safe, and dishwasher-safe.
On the Northshore, Locals Only stocks work from more than a hundred Tennessee artists and makers, from Chattanooga ceramics and prints to soaps, jewelry and pantry goods. The shop functions as a one-stop showcase for genuinely local, made-nearby products.
Lumen Gallery curates work from local and regional artisans, favoring functional design that reflects the Santa Cruz coast and its surf culture. The solar-powered Capitola Village shop reuses its packaging and leans toward sustainably made ceramics, prints, jewelry and homeware.
M2 Gallery relocated to Little Rock's South Main (SoMa) district, where it shows and sells work by a roster of Arkansas-based painters, potters and sculptors. The space is owner-run and doubles as a working studio rather than a franchised showroom.
Best for Arkansas contemporary art, ceramics, studio visits
For thirty years this Second Street gallery has combined handcrafted work by northern California artisans with fair-trade goods sourced from ethical importers worldwide. Stock includes Liscom Hill Pottery ceramics, jewelry, candles, textiles, stained glass, and paper star lanterns.
A Worth Avenue institution since 1985, Mary Mahoney carries luxury tableware from Buccellati and Hermès porcelain to Baccarat crystal and Puiforcat silver. The shop runs a sought-after wedding registry and ships its home and table pieces internationally, making formal table settings and gift buying central to the Palm Beach store.
Best for Tableware, home decor, porcelain and crystal
Mesa's Edge has sold Southwestern and Native American jewelry, pottery, and art from its Taos Plaza gallery since 1989, when founder Louise Pasaka returned from nursing work on the Navajo Nation to open the shop. The gallery represents Navajo Nation and Pueblo artists as well as local Taos studio jewelers, selling both in person and through its online store.
An Over-the-Rhine design shop on Vine Street stocking jewelry, apparel, ceramics and home goods from independent makers, with an emphasis on local artists. It carries small-batch and handmade pieces chosen for craft rather than brand.
Miller Made Pottery is a working studio producing wheel-thrown functional stoneware and running wheel-throwing and handbuilding classes in Boise. Mugs, bowls, and planters are made and sold on site.
A teaching pottery studio at 800 NE 13th Street offering wheel and handbuilding classes, memberships with 24/7 access, and workshops from face sculpture to candle-making. Its shop carries studio-made goods and a rotating gallery of one-of-a-kind pieces.
A Main Street shop in Moab devoted entirely to local artisans, carrying their prints, jewelry, bags and ceramics with each maker credited. Goods sell in the store on North Main and through an online shop, and it hosts silversmithing and pottery workshops.
MoMo is a multi-artist gallery on Bent Street in Taos selling pottery, jewelry, and art from a roster of makers, with a second location in Santa Fe on Lincoln Avenue. The gallery's inventory is also sold through a dedicated Shopify storefront for customers ordering from outside New Mexico.
Monty's of Provincetown runs three connected shops on Commercial Street selling home decor and fine furnishings, nautical-themed jewelry and clothing, and an international Christmas ornament collection. All three storefronts sell online as well as in person, including pieces from local artisans like Vetri pottery and Ruku art.
A pottery studio and makers space where wheel-thrown and hand-built ceramics are produced and sold. It also runs classes and carries work by local potters.
Opened in 1974, Mung Bean carries pottery, jewelry, wooden toys, woodenware, and Maine preserves from more than 300 domestic craftspeople. The shop has occupied Townsend Avenue since relocating to Boothbay Harbor in 1977.
Northwood Gallery has exclusively featured Vermont artists since opening in 2016, filling its shop at 151 Main Street in Stowe with fiber, glass, jewelry, pottery, prints, sculpture and woodwork from more than 80 makers.
Old Mexico Imports has operated in San Antonio's Market Square for over 60 years, sourcing more than 500 items directly from artisan families in Oaxaca, Puebla and Guadalajara. The shop carries Talavera pottery, serapes with hand-knotted fringes, and alebrijes carved folk art figures.
This artist-run cooperative art gallery in Humboldt County sits at Second and F Streets beside the Old Town gazebo. Members show paintings across all mediums along with photography, jewelry, mosaics, ceramics, and woodwork, all made by local artists.
Founded in 1983 overlooking Camden harbor, Once A Tree specializes in handcrafted wooden goods such as salad bowls, cutting boards and jewelry boxes, rounded out with pottery, lamps and kitchenware. Many pieces are locally made, and the shop offers gift wrapping and stays open year-round.
Ortega's on the Plaza in Santa Fe sells Native American jewelry and art including rings, belts, pendants, bracelets, necklaces, bolo ties, pottery, fetishes and decorative boxes from its San Francisco Street location.
Palms Trading Company buys directly from Native American artists with no middleman distributor, selling jewelry, pottery, storytellers, stone fetishes and kachina dolls made by Navajo, Zuni, Hopi and Pueblo artisans including Santo Domingo, Acoma, Jemez, Laguna, San Ildefonso, Santa Clara and Zia. It began as a local grocery store where Native Americans traded their crafts for groceries, and each piece is described as one-of-a-kind.
Best for Native american jewelry and pottery direct from artists
A long-established gallery in Albuquerque's Old Town, Penfield specializes in Southwestern and Native American fine art. Its rooms hold Kachina carvings, collector jewelry, pottery and weavings.
Best for Native American fine art, Kachinas and collector jewelry
A Perkins Cove fixture since 1984, this shop showcases Chris Davis's hand-thrown stoneware alongside candles, breadwarmers, olive-wood pieces, and other handmade home goods. Shop the pottery and gifts in person or through the online store.
Peter Pots Pottery, at 494 Glen Rock Rd. in West Kingston, Rhode Island, has handcrafted stoneware at the historic Glen Rock Mill since 1954, marking 75 years in business. Pieces feature hand-done sgraffito decoration, and the Coffee Cup design dates to the early 1950s.
An art co-op, gallery, and workshop space at 426 Third Street selling handmade jewelry, ceramics, woodwork, paintings, photography, books, and zines by a dozen or more local artists. It also runs classes in clay, jewelry, fiber arts, printmaking, and collage, with open-studio access for members.
Pierson Gallery, established in 1986 with locations in Sapulpa and the I-44 Antique Mall in Tulsa, exhibits paintings, pottery, ceramics, baskets, weavings and Old Pawn Native American jewelry alongside works by historic Oklahoma artists Willard Stone, Charles Banks Wilson and Alexandre Hogue.
Plum Bottom Gallery opened its doors in 2006 and operates locations across Door County, Wisconsin, featuring work by more than 200 nationally recognized and emerging artists in painting, sculpture, glass, ceramics, fiber art and jewelry. Current collections include jeweler Mosaico's crystal and 18K gold-plated pieces and glass artists Hanson and Kastles.
Pottery by Sam is a Boise ceramicist making handmade functional pottery, including mugs, bowls, and vases sold directly through the studio. Each piece is wheel-thrown and glazed by hand.
Roger's Gardens is a Corona del Mar nursery and garden center spanning plants, roses, citrus and fruit trees, pottery, outdoor furniture, home decor and seasonal Halloween and Christmas boutiques. Open daily, it sells both in its Newport Beach-area gardens and through an online shop with local delivery.
Best for Nursery, garden center, plants, home decor, outdoor furniture
Founded in 1880 by Maria Longworth Nichols, Rookwood is an American art pottery famed for its matte and flambe glazes and architectural tile, now hand-thrown and glazed again in a restored Over-the-Rhine factory. It produces vases, ornaments and custom tile alongside a museum-grade archive of its historic forms.
Sandpiper Gallery sits on Middle Street on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, showing paintings, jewelry, ceramics, glass and fine craft from a broad roster of American artists alongside its sister Dare Gallery in Charleston. Both galleries sell directly to visitors and take online inquiries through their shared 'buy' page.
This woman-owned pottery studio in Flagler Village centers on wheel work, classes, and a community of makers. It sells studio-made ceramics and runs hands-on programming out of the same space.
Best for Wheel-thrown ceramics and pottery classes at this woman-owned Flagler Village studio
SeaDragon & Yellowhouse Gallery joins two Outer Banks fine-craft galleries under one roof at the Waterfront Shops, showing jewelry, pottery, glass, wood, and photography from more than 100 artists. Yellowhouse dates to a 1969 Nags Head cottage and moved to Duck in 2018 to join SeaDragon, which photographer Eve Turek has owned since 2016.
SOBA is a members' cooperative gallery at 6 Church Street showing paintings, photography, pottery and jewelry by Lowcountry artists. The nonprofit rotates monthly exhibitions and runs art classes from its Old Town space.
This South Street dealer specializes in English and American furniture, porcelain, silver, and paintings from the Georgian, Federal, and Regency periods, roughly 1760 to 1820. It serves private collectors, designers, and architects and positions itself around connoisseurship rather than general antiques trade.
Best for 18th- and early 19th-century period furniture and decorative arts
A 40-year-old artist cooperative housed in a former horse barn on Block Island, the Spring Street Gallery is staffed by its member artists. It sells paintings, photographs, ceramics and jewelry, and a direct online shop lets visitors buy work from the island's only art co-op.
Best for Art gallery, cooperative, paintings, ceramics, jewelry
Six generations on, Tanner Trading sells authentic Native American turquoise jewelry, Navajo rugs, pottery and sandpaintings from its Park City store and a sister shop in Farmington, New Mexico. Each piece is credited to its Navajo, Zuni or Hopi maker, and the online store ships nationwide.
Best for Native American jewelry, turquoise, Navajo weavings, Southwest art
Taos Blue has sold handmade jewelry, ceramics, furnishings, and sculpture from its corner shop on Bent Street in Taos for more than 30 years, with categories spanning fetishes, glass, masks, and wearable art. The gallery keeps posted daily hours and stays open on holidays like Memorial Day for visiting shoppers.
Tar Heel Trading Co. has sold American-made handcrafts at Duck's Scarborough Lane Shoppes since 1979, carrying pottery, jewelry, glass, and wood from more than 200 craftspeople. Founded by Mary Ames and later run by longtime employee Judy Joyce, the shop has been owned by Liz and Jamie McBain since 2023.
The Evergreen Gallery on Highway 74 represents more than 90 Colorado artists working in fused and blown glass, functional pottery, carved wood, kaleidoscopes, textiles, and original paintings. Its cases also hold the Evergreen Angel Jewelry Collection, whose sales support Mount Evans Home Health Care and Hospice.
Best for Colorado fine art, handmade glass, and pottery
Formerly the Heron American Craft Gallery under founder Ellen Corsell, this North Main Street shop has spent roughly four decades championing American studio craft and now represents more than 100 makers. The mix runs from hand-blown glass and ceramics to jewelry, kitchenware, and sculpture, all made by working American craftspeople rather than imported.
Best for American studio craft - ceramics, glass, jewellery
Open in Mendocino since 1978, The Highlight Gallery at 10480 Kasten Street shows and sells fine handcrafted furniture, art, ceramics, glass, jewelry and turned wood by American makers. Many one-of-a-kind pieces are sold in the ocean-view gallery and through its online shop, with custom work available.
A nonprofit arts organization in a historic stone building off Main Street, The Smithy runs a gallery of regional artwork alongside a working clay studio with classes and resident potters. Its programming pairs rotating exhibitions of area artists with hands-on ceramics instruction.
Best for Locally made pottery and regional artwork
Housed in the Watertower on Albion Street in Mendocino, The Studio makes and sells hand-thrown ceramics and naturally dyed textiles. It sells what it makes and teaches what it makes, offering private ocean-view classes alongside the shop.
Three Wheel Studio, at 436 Wickenden St in Providence, is run by artist Dwo Wen Chen and makes high-temperature stoneware fired in an electric kiln. Pieces are wheel-thrown or hand-built, completely handmade, and hand-painted with lead-free glazes that are food, microwave and dishwasher safe.
Tori Jones Studio is a seasonal home-furnishings and art gallery behind Block Island Blue Pottery on Dodge Street, open Memorial Day through mid-September. It curates fine art, antiques, furniture, lighting, and artisanal craft gathered from around the world.
Best for Curated art, antiques and home furnishings
Tribes Gallery is a Choctaw-owned gallery in Norman, Oklahoma that opened in 1990, calling itself Oklahoma's premier art gallery specializing in Native American, Oklahoman and Western art. It represents artists including Benjamin Blackstar, Enoch Kelly Haney, Harvey Pratt and Dustin Mater, and offers original artwork, jewelry, pottery and ledger art.
Turquoise Village, founded in 1978 by the late Gregory Hofmann on the Zuni reservation and acquired by the Dodson family in 2019, purchases inventory directly from Zuni artisans, selling hand-carved fetishes, jewelry, pottery, kachinas, beadwork, baskets and Navajo rugs.
Union Studio is a women-owned shop selling handmade art and goods from more than 125 St. Louis-area creatives, spanning jewelry, ceramics, candles, and pantry items across two brick-and-mortar locations. Its Webster Groves storefront doubles as a workshop where online orders are packed and shipped to customers nationwide.
On historic Howard Street since 1970, Village Craftsmen is one of the Outer Banks' premier craft galleries, showing American-made pottery, jewelry, wooden utensils, bells, soaps, kaleidoscopes, prints and pewter. The extensive selection is available both in the Ocracoke gallery and through its online shop.
Best for Craft gallery, American handmade, pottery, jewelry, woodenware
Ward's Nursery & Garden Center has grown on Main Street in Great Barrington since 1957, now run by the third generation of the Ward family. Alongside perennials, trees and houseplants, it carries a wild-bird shop, pottery, tools and seasonal holiday décor.
Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts runs an online store from its residency campus at 103 Cochran Road in Edgecomb, Maine, selling logo merchandise like the Excessive Handles Crewneck, Sheep Bricks Clay T-Shirt, and Catenary Arch Tote. Proceeds from every purchase go toward funding the nonprofit's ceramic artist residencies and workshops.
The monks of Weston Priory sell their own music CDs, woodshop and ceramic crafts, weavings, and honey and maple syrup through the monastery's gallery shop at 58 Priory Hill Road in Weston, Vermont. The full range, including pewter pendants and greeting cards, ships through the priory's online store.
Wind River Trading Company, on San Francisco Street in Santa Fe, has operated locally for over 43 years selling Navajo and Zuni jewelry, fine gold jewelry and Pueblo pottery, including a 1960s Santa Clara pot by Belen Tapia and a 1963 Inter-Tribal Ceremonial ribbon-winning Hopi bowl by Garnet Pavateah.
A Friday Harbor gallery and working studios championing San Juan Island makers, with an online shop of paintings, watercolours, glasswork and ceramics. Represented artists include Aimee Dieterle, Jaime Ellsworth, Jupiter Nielsen and Cozette Ellis.
Owner Laura Harmon shows her painted floorcloths and furniture in this Main Street gallery, sharing the walls with more than thirty area artists working in jewelry, pottery, fiber and western painting. The shelves also hold locally made soap, candles and lotions, and Harmon offers color consulting and decorative painting from the same storefront.
Best for Regional Wyoming art and painted floorcloths