Missing you, Peg. The chair still sags where you used to sit. Your favorite blanket still smells like you (corn chips). Sometimes it feels like you never left and other times we’re painfully aware of it.
3 years. It will always be Peggie Day 💜🌈🦄
妈妈. Mother’s Day happening during Heritage Month gives me so much time to think about all the ways I find myself through you 💛
Also shoutout to @chineseamericanbear for always writing songs that make me feel so seen 💛🐻✨
TOMORROW is my last @queencityclay sale (for now, anyway 😭) before I move to Louisville! I’ve been neck deep writing music for the past few months so I haven’t been making as much new ceramic work and I’ve decided to pull a lot of work out of the archives - mostly unreleased wood and soda fired jewelry. And yes, for the first time ever: The Hoops™ !
I’ll expound more at a later time, but for now I’ll say that QCC has been such a magical artistic home and now, looking back in the rearview mirror, I think it was the real reason I landed in Cincy. QCC and ceramics has even made me a better composer and human, and at this point is a core part of my artistic practice. Also: wood/soda firing is right there at the top of my list of Things That Make Life Worth Living. 🔥✨
Anyway:
Queen City Clay Spring Sale
Saturday April 25 10 am - 4 pm
2760 Highland Ave.
Norwood, OH 45212
See you there!
Project Fusion presents PHOENIX 🔥
A program embodying RENEWAL, TRANSFORMATION, and FLIGHT, featuring recent works by Ohio-based composers Michael Frazier, Tyler Kline, Susanna Hancock, and Robert McClure, as well works by Clay Mettens, Bobby Ge, and a fugue by our very own Matt Evans.
#saxophone #quartet #chambermusic #newmusic #ohio
Checking in from my current world of Big Music and Smol Ceramics to share my slate of performances this month: very happy for @projectfusionsq to tour HIATUS throughout Ohio (including a birthday performance!), @lukemee to perform take you all the way at SHE Festival, and University of Calgary to perform super heavy twice (and again!).
Catching up on performances from Jan and Feb (swipe): @fordclarinet performing take you all the way in Taipei and NYC, @kat_vet doing the same in Brooklyn and @lukemee in NC, and Greensboro Symphony Youth Orchestra tackling Limbic Resonance (also in NC)!
I hold fast to the belief that my music will find the right people and the right people will find my music. Grateful for this life, the most amazing friends/collaborators, and every single performance, always. 💛✨🪩
恭喜发财🧧✨ Wood snake was absolutely brutal can I get a ni haody for fire horse?? 🤠🔥🐎
P.s. Always excited to break out my LNY earrings by @filthy_mari_atelier 💛💛💛
#lunarnewyear
Here’s some photos from the archives (since my phone keeps reminding me). One year ago @sound_assembler and I went to Japan for the first time and it’s truly hard to put into words how beautiful and transformative it was.
Perhaps Bourdain put it best:
“What do you need to know about Tokyo? Deep, deep waters. The first time I came here, it was a transformative experience. It was a powerful and violent experience. It was just like taking acid for the first time—meaning, What do I do now? I see the whole world in a different way… You hear about it. You go see it. A whole window opens up into a whole new thing. And you think, What does this mean? What do I have left to say? What do I do now?”
The last time I had gone to Asia (China), I was 12 years old and I spent nearly a whole summer there. It was a powerful and violent experience in a different way; I felt like a fish out of water and was confronted with all the parts of self that I had not yet learned to accept, or perhaps been told by America not to love. I cried to my parents daily and we ended up leaving 2 weeks early.
Two decades later, visiting for 3 weeks barely scratched the surface and in most ways, I felt more seen and represented than in Japan than I do at home. (Oh, how the tables have turned!)
We traveled through Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Uji, Okayama, Teshima, Fukuoka, and Beppu. All of the photos you see here were taken on a Canon EOSR7 (mirrorless) with a Pocket Dispo lens; most photos I took were not useable; the lens has major limitations but there’s something ethereal that it evokes and when it hits, it really hits. (Happy to talk more with ye photo nuts!)
Trying to be better about documenting travels and perhaps one day I’ll sift through the rest of my Japan photos, but for now thanks for looking. 💛
We’re thrilled to welcome Susanna Hancock and Seare Ahmad Farhat as the Louisville Orchestra’s Creators Corps composers for the 2026/27 season.
Now entering its fifth year, the Creators Corps program places composers at the heart of our orchestra and our city. We can’t wait to see how Seare and Susanna shape the next chapter of this groundbreaking program!
#LouisvilleOrchestra #CreatorsCorps #NewComposers
I have been woefully bad about keeping track of performances of my music and am trying to get it together. Have you performed a piece of mine in the past few years? I’d love for you to send me the information (piece title, date, performer names, location, if it was part of a festival, etc.) if you have it. And if you have a PDF program you can send me, that would be even better! You can reach me at: [email protected]
This is especially pertinent if you have played super heavy (percussion quartet + electronics) or take you all the way (clarinet solo); I’ve already found 4 new performances from google/youtube this morning alone!
Please and thank y’all in advance 🫶🏼
#composer #composition #music #newmusic #classicalmusic #thestruggleisreal
From now until Christmas, the best place you can shop my work is the @queencityclay Holiday OTR Market. I’m so thankful to be a part of this clay community for 5+ years and delighted to have my work featured alongside a ton of brilliant artists/makers in this pop-up market! Come down and knock out your present buying list with countless options to choose from. Most of all: thank y’all for shopping small ❤️✨🎄
1326 Vine Street Cincinnati, OH 45202
Right next to delicious @youngbuck_delicatessen !
Wednesday - Sunday | 11 am - 6 pm
#cincinnati #cincy #cincysmallbusiness #cincysmallbiz #cincymakers #cincymade #otr #overtherhine #shopsmall #shophandmade #shoplocal #clay #claychristmas #ceramic #ceramicartist #cincychristmas #cincinnatichristmas
