I started throwing pots in 2009 in a friend's garage in Tampa. A couple of clumsy years later I rented a corner of a print shop in Brandon, and in 2014 I finally signed the lease on the small block building on Ivy Flower Loop that has been Clay Broussard Studio ever since.
The name comes from a piece of driftwood my late father carved — a small clay figure of a man named Broussard. He was a potter too, in Louisiana, before the family moved to Florida. The studio is named for him.
I work alone most days, with one apprentice on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We make stoneware for everyday use, fired in a small wood kiln out behind the studio. Everything you see on the site has passed through my hands at least four times.
Clay Broussard