John Reinking's Fifth Annual Ceramics Open House and Sale

John Reinking's Ceramic Open House and Sale is being held on Columbus Day Weekend, October 8th and 9th, from 11am until 4pm each day. Sculptural and Functional ceramics will be on display and for sale. Refreshments will be served!

John Reinking is one of the more prominent ceramicists working in the area.  His forms are organic and contemporary, while his palette is very earthy in nature.  His Open House will feature a variety of his functional ceramics, approximately 800 pieces all created by the artist. Some of these pieces are fired in a traditional gas kiln, while some others are finished in a kiln that was built by the artist. The latter is fired with propane and wood and creates uniquely beautiful pieces unlike any other and result in numerous one of a kind objects.  In addition some of the pieces are created with commercially available clay and a portion of the one of a kind pieces have been created with native clay that he dug locally.

John Reinking is a Berkeley Heights native, and graduate of Governor Livingston High School class of 1996. He graduated with a BFA from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts. He then continued his studies and received a MFA from Marywood University . He currently teaches at Raritan Valley Community College in Branchburg, NJ as well as County College of Morris, in Randolph, NJ.

This year John was honored to be invited to speak at  NCECA (National Council for the Education in the Ceramic Arts) in Tampa, FL. His topic was “Suburban Wood and Soda Firing” and was well attended in excess of 450 people. He was also included in the Lark Books publication “500 Raku”, in which they published one of his Raku Vases. He is currently represented by Peter’s Valley Gallery in Layton NJ as well as Connexions Gallery in Easton, PA. In addition, he exhibits in a variety of group exhibitions per year. His ceramic work is held in numerous private national and international collections.