Liz Lurie

Liz Lurie has been a studio potter and teacher since 1994. After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College, with a concentration in dance and ceramics, she pursued her interest in pottery full-time when she left her native Manhattan to become a member of a wood-fired kiln collective in rural Georgia for four years. Upon leaving Georgia, she did residencies and teaching assistantships at Peter's Valley Craft School (NJ) and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (ME). Liz followed this to become a studio technician and teacher at Worcester Center for Crafts in Massachusetts.

Moving to Dallas, Texas in 2001, Liz set up a studio and begun teaching at a number of schools, including Southern Methodist University, Collin County Community College and Brookhaven College.Lurie has been a visiting artist and workshop leader at many institutions, including Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, University of Missouri Columbia, University of North Texas, The Chautauqua Institution, and Anderson Ranch Arts Center.  Liz’s work has been exhibited and published nationally. She has been presenter at the ‘Women Working With Clay Symposium’,  at Hollins University.

Liz is co-founder of The Dallas Pottery Invitational which celebrated its 18th-year anniversary in 2025. She divides her time between her studio , being a program coordinator for a local arts organization and teaching locally and in the international online program, Clay Cohorts. She maintains a showroom in Chittenango, NY.

Artist Statement Central to my work is the desire to communicate a strong sense of muscular physicality, harmony and a quiet beauty which reveals itself slowly. I am interested in the subtle changes in form that happen over time; a slightly different angle, a lowering of volume, or an addition of an appendage. These nuanced variations give rise to the evolution of form.
	I find deep satisfaction in working within the limits of function. For me, there is freedom in the structure that use provides. It is always my grounding starting point. There is directness to their intention as they fulfill their lives on counters, cupboards and dish racks.
It is my hope through form, texture, and color that my work might provide a moment of slowness, comfort and intrigue, giving nourishment whether they are empty or full.