Bio

Joy Bridy is a potter living in the Eastern Market area of Washington, DC. She has traveled from Seattle to Maine to work with clay, and is currently found at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, and various wood kilns from Virginia to Wisconsin.

Born and raised in Northwest Indiana, Joy received a BA in Studio Arts from Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. After college, Joy explored the worlds of social work, moving from Head Start to group homes for people with autism, to a battered women's shelter and transitional housing complex, singing a cappella all the way.

While in Pennsylvania, where she auspiciously tumbled into a studio assistant position at Juniata College, she began teaching evening community classes, firing wood kilns, growing blueberries, and hitting the gym in the afternoons. Her natural tendencies to explore and travel have come in handy, leading her to Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Maine, as a Technical Assistant, a month on a Rotary sponsored cultural exchange in South Korea, and a summer residency at Pottery Northwest, Seattle, where she joined a recreational rowing club, walked from neighborhood to neighborhood, and got the taste for urban culture. Now in Washington, DC, Joy is energized by walking new paths to old haunts, taking in the culture of museums and galleries, ice skating in the sculpture garden, and following her travel muse wherever she may lead to expand her knowledge of wood firing.