{"id":16978,"date":"2025-08-11T17:31:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T23:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/farmers-market-clay-by-dre-makes-functional-ceramics\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:03:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:03:30","slug":"farmers-market-clay-by-dre-makes-functional-ceramics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/farmers-market-clay-by-dre-makes-functional-ceramics\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers Market: Clay by Dre makes functional ceramics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=a8902f65-aa12-5334-b85e-0eeec6e84584&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1510\" alt=\"Drea Clements of Clay by Dre poses with a bowl she made at her booth at the Durango Farmers Market on July 26. (Nick Gonzales\/Durango Herald)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Drea Clements of Clay by Dre poses with a bowl she made at her booth at the Durango Farmers Market on July 26. (Nick Gonzales\/Durango Herald)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Nick Gonzales<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>In a general context, the name \u201cDre\u201d brings to mind West Coast hip-hop and headphones, but at the Durango Farmers Market, it\u2019s synonymous with functional pottery.<\/p>\n<p>Through <a href=\"https:\/\/claybydre.com\/pages\/about\" id=\"link-ecf40579c233098b3150149999997746\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clay by Dre<\/a>, Drea Clements sells a variety of useful handmade ceramic items.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI make mostly functional work \u2013 mostly wheel-thrown, nature-inspired, highly textured pieces \u2013 to just elevate your everyday drinking and eating experience,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The Durango-based potter said she has been doing professional studio pottery work for about 20 years, after receiving a degree in ceramics from Bowling Green State University in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Clements\u2019 products include mugs, bowls, planters, berry bowls, little vases, honeypots, spoon rests, large serving bowls and olive oil bottles. She also makes custom dinnerware sets to order.<\/p>\n<p>Observers will note that she tends to work in a specific color palette.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really love blues and greens \u2013 and browns and blacks \u2013 and incorporating the two together is kind of just like a natural vibe,\u201d she said. \u201cI used to live by the (Atlantic) Ocean too, so I have a strong tie to and love for the ocean and water.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Durango Farmers Market, Clements\u2019 ceramics can be found at claybydre.com. Her work will also be available at the Durango Autumn Arts Festival from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sept. 20 and 21 on East Second Avenue in Durango.<\/p>\n<p>Those more interested in producing pottery themselves can attend the wheel-throwing classes she will be teaching at Ignacio\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dscac.org\/\" id=\"link-cb1b649188967f1724ed2a92e3274949\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dancing Spirit Community Center<\/a> in September.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-6c4cbfcc7b85556edc90644168c9ffe1\"><a href=\"mailto:ngonzales@durangoherald.com\">ngonzales@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clements\u2019 blue and green pottery is inspired by nature and the sea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[246,1934,28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-16978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-arts-general","tag-farmers-market","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20497,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16978\/revisions\/20497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16978"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=16978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}