Size: 9 1/4" diameter x 7 1/2" high
Technique: Hand painted glass bowl

About the Artist

Toni is a former art teacher and native Chicagoan, now living in McKinney since 2004.  She is active in community and church organizations.  She's honored to part of the McKinney artist community.

Artist Contact Information

Email: toniaudrukaitis@sbcglobal.net

Size: 9 12" diameter x 7" high
Technique: Wheel thrown & altered

About the Artist

Wayne focuses on creating pottery that is functional to use and he often decorates it with discarded tree branches.

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Wood Street Studios
521 N. Kentucky Street
McKinney TX 75069

Email: cwbatch@gmail.com
Instagram Username: cwbatch
Website: waynebatchelder.com

Size: 8" diameter
Technique: Wheel thrown

About the Artist

As a potter, I strive to find the right balance between functionality and aesthetics.  My goal is to create a work of art that gives aesthetic pleasure, yet it is enjoyable to use and pleasing to hold.

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Email: wh999@hotmail.com
Instagram Username: chienhui.bryant

Size: 11"wide x 6"high
Technique: Wheel thrown and altered

About the Artist

Jennifer is a pottery teacher and potter who lives and works in McKinney.  She enjoys making functional pottery.

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Jennifer Burke Pottery
Email: jburkepottery@gmail.com
Instagram Username: jenniferburkepottery

Size: 24" long x 8" wide x 5" high
Technique: Raku ceramic Sculpture

About the Artist

Linda devotes her time, energy and focus to producing beautiful wearable art, unique copper creations and extraordinary pottery and sculpture.  She strives to bring individuality to each piece of art that she designs.

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Linda Chidsey Designs

Email: lindachidsey@lindachidsey.com
Instagram Username: lindachidseydesigns
Website: www.lindachidsey.com

Size: 32" tall x 8" wide
Technique: Paper-Mâché Sculpture by Kim Guthrie / Ceramic bowl by Alex Macias

About the Artist

Kim Guthrie seeks to delight people with her humorous, “tongue in cheek” approach she uses in creating her art. The demanding work of varied subjects and mediums molded the gifted artist that she is today. Over the past decade, Kim has turned her focus to primarily creating whimsical oil paintings, portraits, and 3D Paper Mâché characters. Kim has quickly gained a reputation for her versatility, talent, and warm wit.

This piece is titled "Bee Berry Happy".  We need to help others eat and we need to do that by protecting our pollinators!

Artist Contact Information

Kim Guthrie Art Gallery/Studio
115 W. Virginia Street
McKinney TX 75069

Email: kim@kimguthrieart.com
Instagram Username: kimguthrieart
Website: kimguthrieart.com

Size: 9" diameter x 7" high
Technique: Wheel thrown and altered.

About the Artist

Jason is a local artist who loves to create art across many mediums but have a special spot in his life for clay. This is especially true when he gets to work next to talented artists who share a love of creating and spending time with friends.

Artist Contact Information

Email: jason.hinojosa@gmail.com

Size: 10.5" diameter
Technique: Wheel thrown and altered.

About the Artist

This specific piece is a reflection on McKinney and the Empty Bowls initiative.  It is completed in a process call Kintsugi - a process symbolizing a reconciliation with the flaws and accidents of time.  Picking up the pieces and putting them back together, sometimes with a little help from those around us.

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SJK Ceramics

Email: skjceramics@gmail.com
Instagram Username: sjkceramics
Website: sjkceramics.com and etsy

Size: 13" diameter x 5" high
Technique: Wheel thrown

About the Artist

Kathy always felt too left brained for art.  When her niece had her join a pottery class 7 years ago she feared the odds were good that it wouldn't last long.  However, the repetition of pottery kept her interested in learning.  It has a therapeutic quality that calmed her mind and helped her forget any outside stress.

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SPARC Studio
405 North Sherman Street
McKinney TX 75069

Email: kekelln@att.net
Instagram Username: klwkelln360
Website: facebook.com/SPARC405

Size: 15" diameter x 4" high
Technique: Wheel thrown

About the Artist

Alex works out of the SPARC studio and is a full-time potter.  She has been donating to Empty Bowls since 2012, and enjoys doing it as a form of community outreach. 

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Studio: All Fired Up

Email: alexmacias7186@gmail.com
Instagram Username: alexmaciasceramics
Website: https://www.facebook.com/AlexMaciasCeramics/

Size: 12" diameter x 2 1/2" high
Technique: Wheel thrown (by Alex Macias) and hand painted by Minda Macias

About the Artist

Minda has experimented with many mediums.  She currently works at SPARC with family and friends.  She participates with Empty Bowls McKinney as her annual community outreach.  She handbuilds, glazes and her artwork is inspired by nature.

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SPARC Studio
405 North Sherman Street
McKinney TX 75069

Email: minda_macias@yahoo.com

Size: 20" diameter x 1.75" high
Technique: Wheel thrown

About the Artist

Steve is fulll-time employed and works on his ceramic hobby in the evening or weekends.  His studio space is located at the co-op studio, SPARC, where he shares space with six ceramic artists.  Steve enjoys teaching classes and hosting workshops for local high school art students.

Artist Contact Information

SPARC Studio
405 North Sherman Street
McKinney TX 75069

Email: steve9020@yahoo.com
Instagram Username: steve.macias.1
Website: facebook.com/SteveMaciasCeramics

Size: 12" diameter x 10" high
Technique: Handbuilt

About the Artist

Kerry believes in the healing powers of mud! Working primarily with clay the past 10 years or so has taught her you are only limited by your mind. This medium stretches the creativity as the clay can be 2 or 3 dimensional, small or large, natural, glazed or even painted on! For Kerry it has  been mostly organic and of the earth as she takes most of her inspirations from nature but on occasions the whimsical..

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Studio: Three Dog Studio

Email: kerryrj@gmail.com
Website: mckinneyartstudiotour.com

Size: 24" long x 10" wide x 2 1/2" high
Technique: Slab built

About the Artist

Heather is inspired by nature and enjoys using organic textures.  She has been working in clay for 35 years.  It feeds her soul.

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Studio: Dragonfly Pottery

Email: heather@bell380.com

Size: 7" diameter x 5" high
Technique: Handbuilt

About the Artist

James studied Fine Arts at the Art Institute of Houston and Otis Parsons in L.A.  After a brain injury, he discovered working with clay.  He finds it therapeutic and a wonderful way to express himself.

Artist Contact Information

SPARC Studio
405 North Sherman Street
McKinney TX 75069

Email: cwbatch@gmail.com
Instagram Username: cwbatch
Website: waynebatchelder.com

Size: 8 1/2" diameter x 4" high, 7" diameter x 3" high, 5" diameter x 2 12" high
Technique: Wheel thrown, carved

About the Artist

Wheel thrown pieces with a minimalist aesthetic design.

Artist Contact Information

SPARC Studio
405 North Sherman Street
McKinney TX 75069

Email: amarietaylor@gmail.com
Instagram Username: amanda.taylor.ceramics

Size: 14" diameter x 3" high
Technique: Underglaze decal & painting on slab construction

About the Artist

Eva's work is mostly functional pottery and she enjoys all kinds of media to create art pieces.

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Studio: Mud Stork Art

Email: evakustar69@gmail.com

Size: 11 1/2" diameter x 6" high
Technique: Wheel thrown

About the Artist

Katy created her bowl with the assistance of Lisa LaBarge, a professional potter and owner of The McKinney Art Studio.

Katy Blakey anchors NBC 5 News weekend evenings and reports during the week. An Emmy Award-winning reporter, Katy's work has also been honored with Lone Star Emmy nominations, including Best News Anchor, and recognized by the Oklahoma Associated Press. Katy, a North Texas native, joined the NBC 5 team in January of 2015.

No stranger to breaking news or severe weather, Katy solo-anchored live coverage of the early morning attack on Dallas Police Headquarters and hours-long stand-off. She covered the national outpouring of support for five DPD officers killed while protecting a peaceful protest in downtown Dallas and traveled to Houston for President George H. W. Bush’s memorial services.

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Size: 11 1/2" diameter x 6" high
Technique: Wheel thrown

About the Artist

Deborah created her bowl with the assistance of Alex Macias, a professional potter working in the SPARC Studio.

New York Times bestselling author Deborah Crombie is a native Texan who writes crime novels set in the United Kingdom. Her Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James series has received numerous awards, including Edgar, Macavity, and Agatha nominations, and is published in more than a dozen countries to international acclaim.

Crombie lives in North Texas with her husband, German shepherds, and cats, and divides her time between Texas and Great Britain. Her latest novel, A Bitter Feast, is available from William Morrow.  She is currently working on her nineteenth Kincaid/James novel.

Website: deborahcrombie.com

Size: 12" wide x 5" high
Technique: Wheel thrown

About the Artist

Scott created his bowl with the assistance of Lisa LaBarge, a professional potter and owner of The McKinney Art Studio.

Scott Elliott is the Executive Director of Community Lifeline Center,  a non-profit that assists local residents in managing crises and navigating their way back to self-sufficiency. This assistance ranges from financial help—rent, utilities, food, medical or prescription assistance—to job search training, credit and budget counseling, and advocacy. Scott is also a member of the McKinney City Council (District 3).

Email: selliott@communitylifeline.org

Size: 13 1/2" diameter x 5" high
Technique: Wheel thrown

About the Artist

Allison created her bowl with the assistance of Lisa LaBarge, a professional potter and owner of The McKinney Art Studio.

Allison Harris is a reporter for FOX 4.  Since joining the FOX 4 team, she has covered the Dallas Police Ambush Shootings and traveled to Central Texas to cover the deadliest hot air balloon crash in United States history.  She will never forget reporting live at police headquarters the night of the Dallas police shooting, as people started showing up to pay their respects to the fallen officers.

Allison is a North Texas native!   She grew up in McKinney, Texas and graduated as president of the first class at McKinney Boyd High School.  She received a degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma, where she was honored to be named the top collegiate news anchor in the country by the Broadcast Education Association, and received the highest student honor from the Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters. She also studied journalism abroad in London and Paris at CNN International, Sky News, BBC, The Guardian and more.

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Size: 14" diameter x 4" high
Technique: Wheel thrown

About the Artist

Martyn created his bowl with the assistance of Lisa LaBarge, a professional potter and owner of The McKinney Art Studio.

About Martyn: Awarded the title of World Piano Man. Performed as the Phantom in Phantom of the Opera in London. Toured around the world, on land and on-board many of the finest cruise lines. Now based in Texas he can be seen performing in client’s private homes, football and hockey games. Theatres and special events. Also known as the Texas and USA Wedding singer. Come and join him… and be enchanted by the power and versatility of his voice.

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Size: 9" diameter x 6" high. (British Pudding Bowl)
Technique: Wheel thrown

About the Artist

Robert created his bowl with the assistance of Lisa LaBarge, a professional potter and owner of The McKinney Art Studio.

Robert is an award winning McKinney chef and former owner of Patina Green.  He is known for his efforts in Collin County to bring fresh goods from local farmers and producers into his store and menu, but also into other area restaurants.  

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Size: 12" diameter x 5 1/2" high
Technique: Wheel thrown

About the Artist

Ashley created her bowl with the assistance of Lisa LaBarge, a professional potter and owner of The McKinney Art Studio.

Ashley is the Executive Director of the McKinney Education Foundation.  She directs their Grant, Scholarship and Advisor programs. MEF awards grants to McKinney ISD faculty, scholarships to graduating MISD seniors, and provides a college/financial aid advisor at each McKinney, TX high school. Advisors work with students to find financial assistance for higher education through federal/state programs and scholarships. They specialize in helping first generation college students, AVID program and any student who has a financial need for higher education.

Email: asine@mckinneyisd.

Size: 12" diameter x 6" high
Technique: Wheel thrown and altered

About the Artist

Madeleine created her bowl with the assistance of Lisa LaBarge, a professional potter and owner of The McKinney Art Studio.

Madeleine is currently operating as the Registered Assistant for Patrick J. Cloutier at Legacy Planning Group. 

Madeleine graduated from Texas Tech University in 2015 with a BBA in Business Marketing. After graduation, Madeleine served as a Financial Representative for Fidelity Investments, where she obtained her Series 7 and 63 Licenses. In April 2017, Madeleine joined her father at Legacy Planning Group. She has since attained her Series 66 and Life, Accident and Health Insurance License.

Madeleine is motivated most by her love to help others. Throughout her professional experience, she has realized that she can apply that passion towards helping others reach their retirement goals and create long-term financial success.