Rosie Village is a small Atlanta-based art studio creating handbuilt sculptural and decorative ceramics. Throughout the year, small collections of new work are released for sale for a limited time in the online shop, or at local artist markets and gallery shows.
Scroll down a little further to meet the artist in this little corner of the world.
I’m an artist who loves to bring a bit of unexpected beauty and joy into people’s lives and their surroundings. I’m also a total ceramics geek. Clay is the most extraordinary of mediums: with careful manipulation—and some really intense heat!— mud and minerals from the earth are transformed into something completely new and wonderful.
Working mostly with delicate porcelains and the occasional rustic earthy clay, I create decorative and sculptural art inspired by nature: flowers • forests • plants • fungi • botanicals • animals • oceanic life • the earth’s landscape … and influenced by dreams and hazy memories floating just beyond the grasp of the conscious mind. It’s like a beautiful meeting of the real + imaginary within layers of soft, quiet textures and patterns. By using the meditative process of ceramics to interpret these details from the natural (and sometimes not-so-natural) world, I hope to bring a sense of wonder and delight to the viewer, and inspire you to notice “the little things” normally overlooked or unseen in our modern, human-focused perspective.
Rosie Village is where you can find my smaller decorative pieces, each series dedicated to a particular theme. New work is released occasionally throughout the year and available for purchase for limited time periods in the online shop, as well as at artist markets and gallery shows. (You can sign up for the email list at the bottom of this page to be notified of shop updates.)
I am in the long, slow process of building another website that features my larger, fine art sculptures and multi-component wall pieces, including recent work completed in 2022 during my post-baccalaureate graduate studies in ceramics at the University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth.
You can most often find me happily working in my home studio in Atlanta—alongside a cantankerous feline named Moo—or at my favorite community art center, Callanwolde Fine Arts. Or out hiking and cycling in nature. Or wandering around the world with my beshert, visiting museums and galleries and eating too much food.
Please feel free to reach out with any inquiries or questions—or even just to chat! If you fill out the contact form , I’ll be in touch within a few days.
—Stephanie Rosendorf + Rosie Village Ceramics
Birthplace: the murky swamplands of a dirty old decadent city
Favorite clay: squishy porcelain
Guilty pleasure: lavender lattes
Best time of day: nautical twilight
Last thing eaten: french fries
Artist crushes: Eva Hesse, Shelia Hicks, Igshaan Adams, Louise Bourgeois, Chakaia Booker, Chiharu Shiota, Petah Coyne, Donté K. Hayes, Linda Sormin, Kiki Smith, Junko Mori, Mária Bartuszová
Wildest adventures: watching the sunrise on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), hiking in the jungles of Bali
Favorite books: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, The Complete Stories of Clarice Lispector, The Principles of Uncertainty by Maira Kalman
Most re-watched movie: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Why Rosie Village: it comes from my last name which means “village of roses”
