People routinely ask me how I came up with the name “Angry Goat” Pottery. Well, most potters leave a mark on each piece to identify the piece as their own. Casting about for my own mark, I wanted it to reflect something about me personally and to connect with other parts of my life. At home we run a small hobby farm and among our critters are six dwarf Nigerian Goats who have to be the sweetest and funniest creatures possible. Are they angry? – no, never – if anything, they are playful, silly, really ridiculous beasts that make us laugh each and every day. Since I love whimsy and have a dry, ironic sense of humor, my mark and the name of my shop were born.
I started making pottery as a teenager and the mud was in my blood! :) I learned to throw on the wheel and to handbuild - I couldn't get enough. Life moved on, as it does, and making pottery went by the wayside, but it never left my heart. Eventually I made my way back to clay when my amazing husband gifted me with a functional pottery class with Nathan Webb of Two Potters – also found on Etsy, I might add – and I haven't left the studio since!

I live and work in the funky railroad town of White River Junction, VT, and I've volunteered as a monitor for a local community pottery studio keeping the studio running and helping students with their projects, I opened my home studio in 2016, and launched Angry Goat Pottery on Etsy in December of that year -- and I haven't looked back!

My hope for my pottery is that it will be beautiful as well as functional, and will bring art and joy to your home as it does to mine. I hope you will love it as much as I love making it. My hope for my Etsy shop is that it will give me an outlet for my creative side and all of the pottery I can hope and dream to make, while allowing me to make enough to support myself as a mostly-stay-at-home mom of my best-ever family!