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Quiet for a Snow Day – Sylvia Mallory

$150.00

The Winter Solstice Collection is Sylvia Mallory’s love letter to the snow-blanketed Ohio Valley she grew up with in Chillicothe, OH—a small town tucked in-between the rolling hills of the Appalachian Mountains. Winter there was its own strange Crone magic. 

A pastel kaleidoscope of light bouncing off of each slope, every curve, and then back onto itself. A soft blanket for the trees–sisters oak, maple, and buckeye–encased in ice, glistening and sparkling like glass. 

Everything was still. No rush. No noise. Just breath and snow and time. 

Snow just hit there differently back in the 80s and 90s. Maybe that’s what Sylvia misses the most—the quiet for a snow day.

Stoneware, mid-range glazes
Variety of shapes and sizes
2025

The Winter Solstice Collection is Sylvia Mallory’s love letter to the snow-blanketed Ohio Valley she grew up with in Chillicothe, OH—a small town tucked in-between the rolling hills of the Appalachian Mountains. Winter there was its own strange Crone magic. 

A pastel kaleidoscope of light bouncing off of each slope, every curve, and then back onto itself. A soft blanket for the trees–sisters oak, maple, and buckeye–encased in ice, glistening and sparkling like glass. 

Everything was still. No rush. No noise. Just breath and snow and time. 

Snow just hit there differently back in the 80s and 90s. Maybe that’s what Sylvia misses the most—the quiet for a snow day.

Stoneware, mid-range glazes
Variety of shapes and sizes
2025

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Sylvia Mallory – Gallerist, Writer, & Ceramic Artist

Sylvia Mallory (she/her) is a writer and ceramic artist whose career has always lived at the intersection of story, community, and creative work. Originally from Chillicothe, Ohio, she earned her BFA in Directing from Ohio University in 2004 and later completed her K–12 Theatre teaching certification at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Her early theatre work included producing, directing, and new play development in Chicago, Washington, DC, and North Carolina. She held an artistic, marketing, and development internship at the Tony Award–winning® Victory Gardens Theater, and later served as the Digital Media Manager at Tony Award–winning® Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia. In 2009, she founded and led The Distillery, a Raleigh-based theatre company focused on new and devised work.

After moving to Richmond in 2015, Sylvia shifted into creative producing and copywriting consulting for women entrepreneurs and small business owners. She also founded the Wonder Women Art Show in 2018 and 2019, benefiting Safe Harbor Shelters.

Ceramics found her in 2022 after going through some tough shit. She hated the wheel but fell hard for handbuilding and sculpture. Her ceramic work explores symbols of the Divine Feminine, utilizing intuitive handbuilding techniques to discover stories hidden within us—a somatic ritual of clay and body. 

She co-led Clay Windows of Richmond during NCECA Week 2024, a citywide collaboration featuring more than 60 artists and 40 businesses. In 2024, she launched The Crone House, a Richmond-based art gallery that celebrates the women still making art, and the badass women collecting their work.

She is also a studio member at Clay Ground in Richmond, VA—her favorite place to explore her unrelenting glaze obsession.

@glazeslut

Photo Credit: Allie Mullin