Rosa Glaessner Novak

We are throwing a clay party! If you make cups, bring one to swap! bundle up for backyard and dm for address 🧱🥂

We are looking for a sublet in NYC this June/July! Doing some archives stuff and visiting our new nephew for auntie-uncle time!!! 🎉🎉 Plz dm if this is you or if you have any leads, tysm

Rosa Novak @really_rosa , leader of A-B programming, joyful and generous human being, researcher of walls and maker of wonderful objects, tells us why she supports A-B Projects: “As both a past participant and lead artist, I have so much appreciation for the role of A-B Projects in the ceramics community. It is an essential artist-run social space for our field, where we can stretch our ideas, our work, ourselves, and what “ceramics” might be!” If you’re interested in raffle tickets for this piece, head to our website via the link in our bio!

Buy raffle tickets for a chance to win ceramics! 🧱Until December 12th!! Beloved @a_bprojects is turning ten years old and hosting a raffle and fundraiser to support its programming. $10 a ticket, you can bid on this Rosa sculpture or some really fun others. Link in bio 🌷

Bidding starts NOW for this piece and 400 others in the @pottersforpalestine auction! 🇵🇸 All money from this piece will go toward Many Lands Mutual Aid, @husein_alzaq2 (link in bio to fundraiser). How to bid: Leave a comment with the amount you are bidding! 🍉Bidding ends on 12/7 at 6 pm EST🍉 at that time, the top bidder will contribute directly to Many Lands Mutual Aid and upon proof of donation I will ship the piece (covered by me if within the US) Name: Rosa Glaessner Novak Title: Being contradictory and nonsynchronous, 2 Materials: Clay, glaze, Detroit River sand Dimensions: 7” x 6” x 2.5” Retail price: $200 Starting bid: $100 Shipping within the US covered by me! 
#PottersForPalestine2025 (coming soon) Bids should be in minimal increments of $5 following the starting bid.

You still have a chance to register for @really_rosa ’s March Studio session, happening Sunday’s throughout the month from 10-noon PST ! What is a wall? When is a wall a wall (a material mass) and when does it become something else (a sculpture or a symbol, perhaps)? When is a wall an impenetrable entity and when is it a permeable barrier? When does a wall contain, house, divide, or perform multiple of these actions at once? What is the work of walls? Follow the link in our bio to our website for more information!

Back in October of 2023, @really_rosa collaborated with A-B Projects for the first time, leading a State of Ceramics “Finding Solidarity in the Shape of a Roof Tile”. And now, this coming March, she will be leading her first Studio Session! There are still a few spots left in this session if you’re interested in joining! Rosa Glaessner Novak is an artist working across ceramic practice, archival research, and Risograph printing. Her current work traces histories of land, labor, and materials involved in the production of art and the built environment. Previous projects have included archival research and writing on the artist and designer Edith Heath, explorations of the work of women in land art, and the co-creation of Mutual Stores, an artist-run collective and residency program in Oakland, California. Rosa holds a BFA in Ceramics from California College of the Arts @cca_ceramics and is currently completing her PhD in the History of Art at the University of Michigan. She is a member of CAVE, an artist-run collective in Detroit, a member of the Marxism Lab at the University of Michigan, a proud member-organizer of the Graduate Employees Organization local 3550, and a co-founder of the Risograph press, Each and Every. She is writing a dissertation on the history of clay workers’ organizing in the twentieth century United States. Follow the link in our bio to find more info on Rosa’s upcoming Studio Session “Work of Walls” happening Sundays March 2, 9, 16, 23 from 10 am - noon PST

Brendan @o.k.great took some photos of things I’ve been making yesterday 🎉 Also see @zsegre ‘s amazing pink lump in the studio 💕

Made some screen printed slab signs for my favorite gallery in detroit @mouse.gallery @gallery.mouse 🐭🪤🪧

Debuting these ceramic bookends by @really_rosa at the @detroitartbookfair this weekend! 👀 💥

Some new things ⭐️

Calling all clay people! On Saturday October 28th, I’ll be leading a State of Ceramics conversation with the fantastic @a_bprojects ! This iteration of State of Ceramics is on Architectural Ceramics, and during next Saturday’s discussion we will talk roof tile, labor, and solidarity 🔨🧱💛 link to register is in bio and details are below: Saturday October 28, 10am-noon PST, online State of Ceramics are always free to attend and open to the public. These events are online, video-on, participatory discussions. Ceramic artists and workers at ceramic manufacturing sites, despite obvious overlaps, have long been considered--by themselves and others--as fundamentally separate. In this State of Ceramics, we explore what it could mean to form solidarity across this divide by better understanding how “artists” and “workers” are connected through the material of clay, and particularly through the presence of ceramics in architecture. The roof tile—a ceramic building material that references the human body (once made on the knee, across the thigh, or perhaps in the shape of the crafting hand?)—renders generations of labor legible in the built environment. Might the ceramic-built environment also preserve clues about our commonality or suggest paths to a future of solidarity? Can we find our shared experience or shared struggles in the curvature of a roof tile? As part of this series about “Architectural Ceramics,” we will also consider the trajectory of labor organization in the fields of architecture and ceramics. Some architects have come to understand themselves as workers, attending to their own historical division from construction workers, and have begun, in recent years, to organize accordingly. Might artists and makers working in clay do the same?