Eshelman Pottery

12/24/2025

With gratitude and hope we wish you a happy Christmas, Paul & Laurel

10/18/2025

Come see us today, 10-6, Twenty Dirty Hands Stop #1, Elizabeth, Eshelman Pottery.

04/26/2025

Come visit us at the FLW Usonian Laurent House & Visitor Center today, April 26, 4 to 9 pm during Rockford Art Scene.

10/16/2024

Bottom of the bisque kiln. Unloaded, glazed, and firing in the glaze kiln. Will unload tomorrow for Twenty Dirty Hands, Fri-Sun. Come visit all the sites and enjoy the fall countryside.

10/05/2024

Twenty Dirty Hands Pottery Tour: October 18-20. Visit our open studios at all seven locations.

05/16/2024

Come see us at the Marion Arts Festival this Saturday, May 18th, 9-5, just off the park. We’ll be in Booth 29! https://marionartsfestival.com/

04/19/2024

Last kiln, lots of dinnerware! Come see us at the FLW Laurent House for Rockford’s Art Scene. Friday 5-9 & Saturday 4-9, April 19-20! This weekend!

10/15/2023

10/14/2023

Come see us in Elizabeth! Stop #1 Twenty Dirty Hands.

04/18/2023

Honored to have my work at the Laurent House by Frank Lloyd Wright during Art Scene in Rockford. Fri 4/21 5-9 & Sat 4/22 4-9.

09/16/2022

Posted • Stop 1 on the pottery tour is Eshelman Pottery
238 N Main St, Elizabeth IL

Here you will find studio host and member artist Paul Eshelman and long-time guest artist Roberta Polfus.

Paul Eshelman's clay vessels order and dignify human life. The simple fueling of one’s body can be given poignancy and weight when the vessels used are not heartless disposables but well-crafted pots that serve with elegance. The pieces are made using a casting process in molds Paul designs and makes.

Roberta Polfus uses a combination of wheel thrown and hand-built forms that are altered, carved and sprigged.
"My carved and sometimes gestural pieces are intimate forms that fit and feel good in the hand. While they are generally not representations of actual objects, they reflect the shapes, patterns, colors and surfaces that I am drawn to in nature—the petals of an apple blossom, the grooves of a spindle shell, the pattern of a hosta leaf or the texture of a weathered rock all inform and inspire my work."

2022 Tour Dates:
October Friday, October 14 (10 am - 6 pm)
Saturday, October 15 (10 am - 6 pm)
Sunday, October 16 (10 am - 5 pm)

Find out more information online at TwentyDirtyHands.com (link in bio)
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05/19/2022

Maybe this fortune was made for me?