Baltimore Clayworks

Our Mission

Baltimore Clayworks opened in 1980 by nine clay artists with the commitment to establish a public art center of living artists who would teach, exhibit and create for and in collaboration with the broader community. To realize the organization’s mission to develop, promote and sustain an artist-centered community, providing exceptional artistic, educational and collaborative programs in the ceramic arts, the artists, staff and Board of Directors of Baltimore Clayworks provide accessible and affordable classes and artists’ studios and a suite of exhibition space featuring local, national and international work which are free and open to the public six days a week. As a major part of this effort, Clayworks partners with grassroots organizations, schools and city agencies to sensitively develop and implement artistic programs in the community for disadvanteged young people who would otherwise have limited or no access to the arts.