About Funkē Fired Arts
For more than 15 years the dynamic community of FUNKē FIRED ARTS has enriched Greater Cincinnati through its ceramic art education classes in wheel-throwing, hand-building, sculpture, and mixed-media. Businesses teams build here! Families reconnect here! Friends celebrate here! And, individuals find themselves here! With one of the largest clay facilities in the nation, our founding principle is to provide artists, art educators, and art enthusiasts with an informed resource for all things clay. Our ever-changing gallery exhibits, innovative product selection, and richly diverse program offerings present something for all skill and interest levels at FUNKē FIRED ARTS. Clay is our passion and education is our mission! Whether you want to create art or entertain yourself for an evening, you simply have to visit this one-of-a-kind Cincinnati treasure.
1)We are a ceramic studio that teaches every level of wheel throwing, handbuilding, and sculpture. We focus on the beginner but we also have the knowledge and resources to support professional level artists. Our educators are top-notch, accomplished ceramic artists. Our students benefit from a variety of class schedules, teaching methods, and commorodity while they hone their ceramic skills. And our students definitely aquire great skills, many of then go on to show work in our gallery or elsewhere, start their own businesses, or just continue evolving their appreciation for ceramics.
2)Our facility is unique in that it includes a full-service retail shop that is connected to one of the largest clay studio spaces in the country. We sell just about every imaginable tool and material for clay work: from clays, glazes, dry materials, and tools to wheels, kilns, bricks, and other equipment. We're pretty sure you can find just about anything you may be looking for in our shop - and if it's not here then we can get it. Our clay studio is one of the largest in the country, complete with multiple kilns (electric, gas, raku, etc.) and more than 50 wheels! We also have a sculpture studio, paint a pot studio, childrens' education center, and a whole lot more. It's a big place, we like it that way. There's a lot going on here.
3)Above all, we strive to become a tri-state focal point for artists, educators, and students to fully realize the power of connecting people through art. Our mission wouldn't amount to much with out people, and we believe it's paramount for people to make connections. Art and creativity sets the perfect backdrop for lasting impressions and an increased appreciation for our lives and environment. Suffice to say, we try to stay on the sunny side of life, doing what we love, and encouraging folks of all ages to do exactly the same.