Meghan Rutz

Somehow I’m back from Japan and it’s already time for the ClayHouston Members exhibition, Four Elements.

Come see our incredible ceramic communities works with your own eyes.

Opening reception November 8, 5-7pm
Monterroso Gallery
3911 Main Street HTX

Some things I have been thinking about/ looking at/ playing like movies in my mind recently.

Always something in progress
Space plant on earth
Second space plant on earth
First bloom from cuttings gifted by
The direction home
Home
Knife
Gift to friends
Gifts from friends
Good things come in 3

mb and I rooted ourselves in our yard this summer and watching these cannas bloom over and over has been the biggest joy.

A cake plate for Alison 🦋

(As a thank you for feeding our cat, George!)

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Xoxo

For Ashley ✨

Who knew I’d be making things for Sonny Angels? 👼

Glaze or Google?

A compilation of some Google Earth images alongside some final glaze details that really do it for me.

I spend a lot of time looking at Google Earth images, and even more time thinking of how the final glazes on my works relate. For almost a decade, it’s been a clear correlation of what I’m taking in being clear in what I put out.

Each one is a landscape, some far off place. I think about where I’d live in each one. I often wonder which one is Tralfamadore and which one is Titan. Which one closest resembles Io? Maybe one day we’ll know. Until then, glaze and Google.

Xo 🦋

Magic garden shrine for Tomiko ✨

The photo app recognizing this as Daphnis nerii, or an Oleander hawk-moth, was the best thing to happen yet. I probably have 100 photos of moths on my phone, I love them. I was definitely thinking of insects when building this, and am grateful happy to know it resonates.

I’m taking commissions for these shrines. Moth inspired or otherwise, you tell me.

Xoxo

I don’t make a whole lot of pinch pots anymore, but when I do, they remind me of how much I love texture. A visit to the process of where my fascination with glaze started.

Available online ✨

this took me two hours on pre create but I’m okay with it

spike keychains! $15! dm to claim!

put a spike on it, silly

My shop is updated! ✨

Theres one of a kind platters, shot glass sets, Spike Keychains.. see if for yourself at meghanrutz.com

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thank you for looking 🤍
Xoxo

Seed Pod Pot

Fantastic experience firing in a wood kiln again. Each piece completely its own and totally unique. I love that it can’t be replicated or reproduced exactly- the outcome left to chance.

A huge shoutout to for her write up on the experience in and this lots little cameo there!

Clothilde, 2025

A demo piece that became a challenge I was determined to finish. I’ve been using procreate to try out different glazing options before committing to my first idea (which is what I usually do). This isn’t how I would have thought to glaze this piece, but I’m quite jazzed with the pink and green cotton candy body and how it plays with the clay body.

Anyway, just thinking about Spring and flowers and what my garden in space would look like.

Destalled the pinecone from its home at Mercer Gardens for the past 6 months.

Unfortunately, its shed most of its spindles ( or a few went home with the public who knows ). While I don’t love how exposed it looks, I do quite like the idea of it shedding and morphing as the season changed.

More unfortunate was realizing moving it meant destroying a few homes little friends had spent months inhabiting inside. A nice lizard, a few wasps nests and one small but spoooooky Black Widow.

Anyway, she’s home now & hopefully the jungle will grow with the rain and fill her in nicely.