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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This week I’m at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Maine for the residency Session 4: Thinking through the Body. Very excited to explore some new work.

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Exciting news! My research was awarded a qualitative research award from the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD). Sadly, I couldn’t make the annual conference, but I’m honored to receive this award for my work, “Exploring the Feasibility of Dream Groups with Ceramic Making.”

Gmail screenshot with award notification that reads:

IASD Student Awards for 2026 - Qualitative

Congratulations on receiving the 2026 Qualitative Ernest Hartmann Student Research Award for your paper:

"Exploring the Feasibility of Dream Groups with Ceramic Making"

The awards were announced at the membership meeting of our annual conference tonight.

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I’m starting my pickle jar today!! 🐻

Fresh vegetables and two ceramic jars, both in the forms of woodland creatures.

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

So this happened today! Officially a Masters of Arts in Clinical Psychology!

Man wearing Columbia (light blue) graduation gown and cap, with crown insignia.

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Last year at this time I visited Theaster Gates' closing show for "When Clouds Roll Away" at Stony Island Art Bank; this year I was able to attend the opening for "Dave: All My Relations" at Gagosian.

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Yesterday I spoke at the UN’s NGO CSW70 conference on emerging topics that relates to queerness. I shared about my research and personal art practice that explores depth content from the unconscious.

Two men sit at a table, one is presenting a talk from his laptop. Behind him is a large monitor showing slides with ceramic objects.

Slide with a ceramic sculpture and the words:
“My exploration of the
"Ground of Being" is both an artistic exploration of ceramic materials, and also a symbolic exploration of the content of my unconscious.”

Slide with the words:

Things mediate, actively shape, and constitute our ways of being in the world and of making sense of the world. Things also bring people together and provide channels of interaction.
Things envelop our minds; they become us... Like a piece of clay thrown on the wheel of culture, the human brain is subject to continuous reshaping, rewiring, and remodeling.
- LAMBROS MALAFOURIS, "HOW THINGS SHAPE THE MIND"

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

年年有余 🎏 马到成功 🦄 新年快乐 🙏 In Chinese the word for fish sounds like the word for abundance, so fish can symbolize prosperity. Wishing for an abundant and peaceful year of the horse.

Porcelain vase in the shape of three fish with cherry blossoms and orchid blooms

Fish vase made of porcelain with orchids in a lizard planter.

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Looking back at the work from last year, thankful for the opportunity to show some of my work at Offit Gallery.

Table full of ceramic masks within a gallery display.

Additional photograph of a ceramic mask display in a gallery context.

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

For much of my life I’ve been a big to-do list person, and New Year’s resolutions were no exception. This year I’m trying something new: goal bingo! From IG examples, I created my own to try to find a framework that’s less all-or-nothing. 👩🏻‍💻

Bingo card with goal statements inside each square, colored by category: academic, artistic, body, lifestyle, sensuality.

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Very thankful for this year and the work I've had the privilege to pursue. My work in clay has given me so much, more than I can know. "Exploring the Ground of Being" was my first solo exhibition, and it has opened up new ways of seeing myself and my own process. Filled with gratitude and hope.

Artist portrait in front of ceramic monster and fish sculptures

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Thankful for the life I’m building for myself. One year ago I was freshly out of a relationship, grieving the life I lost but also moving back to myself. This past year has been transformative in so many ways.

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Putting away most recent ceramic sculpture, “Monster Family Growing,” as we close up shop for the holidays. Stoneware, MD Shino Glaze and Tenmoku #sculpture #ceramics

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Last ceramic review in my masters degree at Teachers College-I hopefully graduate in February! (Fewer works than usual because they’re all in the my exhibition!)

Table with large stoneware monster sculpture and some small porcelain bowls with MD Shino glaze.

Table with multiple porcelain monster sculptures.

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Last night I gave an Artist Talk at Columbia University for my show, “Exploring the Ground of Being” There’s still time to see the show: open until Dec 22!

Slides from my Artist Talk:

Exploring the Ground of Being
CERAMICS & DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY
2025 | MICHAEL HEADRICK

We get messages from time to time from the unconscious: dreams, fantasies, intuitions, visions and so on; and it is from these that we draw the conclusion of a psychical existence in ourselves which is totally different to our conscious mind.
- CARL JUNG, "MODERN PSYCHOLOGY"

Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, - 1500, oil on oak panels, Musco del Prado, Madrid

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Talking with Greg about the process of making in ceramics and the parallels between the process in this medium and the obscure medieval practice of alchemy.

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Successful opening last night! Thanks to everyone who came!

Man standing in gallery with a vase in the form of fish jumping out of water.

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

“Exploring the Ground of Being: Ceramics & Depth Psychology” November 14, 2025 - January 5, 2026 Opening: November 19th, 2025 at 5:30-7:00pm Artist Talk & Tour: December 11th, 2025 at 3:00pm-4:00pm Address: Gottesman Libraries, Teachers College 525 W 120th St, New York, NY Russell Hall 305

Poster with ceramics sculpture of a utility box, with the text:

“Exploring the Ground of Being: Ceramics & Depth Psychology”
November 14, 2025 - January 5, 2026
Exhibition Opening: November 19th, 2025 at 5:30-7:00pm
Artist Talk & Tour: December 11th, 2025 at 3:00pm-4:00pm

Address Information:
Gottesman Libraries at Teachers College, Columbia University
525 W 120th St, New York, NY
Russell Hall 305

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Another fantastic clip from my conversation with Greg! As queer/lgbtq individuals, we have the opportunity to build a better world through the ways we engage with our dreams. I’m so thankful for the opportunity to discuss my creative and academic work in such a connected way.

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

A few final touches, but we’re here !!!

Photo of gallery with the text:
"Exploring the Ground of Being"
November 14 - January 5
Teachers College, Gottesman Libraries

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Yesterday I had a lovely conversation with Greg from The Ganymede Project on IG, here’s a clip where we talk about the way art can help us to relate to and negotiate with parts of ourselves. You can see more of this work at my upcoming show, “Exploring the Ground of Being” from 11/14/25-1/5/26.

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Repost from IG: *Saturday, November 8th at 9:30am EST* I'm doing an IG Live with @theganymedeproject (www.instagram.com/theganymedep...) about my upcoming exhibition at Columbia University, “showcasing the intersection of group dream work and a tactile approach to active imagination with ceramics.”

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Hot girl walk this fall Monday 🚶🏻

Photograph of a forest with large rock formations. The trees have fall foliage colors.

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

If anyone is in New York over the next few months, stop by my show at Teachers College! Solo Exhibition November 14, 2025-January 5, 2026 Opening: November 19, 5:30-8pm Teachers College, Columbia University

“Exploring the Ground of Being”
Solo Exhibition
November 14, 2025-January 5, 2026
Opening: November 19, 5:30-8pm
Teachers College, Columbia University

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Thankful to live up here near the Cloisters

A picture of a courtyard garden as part of the cloisters museum, from The Met

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

This past weekend I gifted myself a special soda ceramics firing upstate at Oki Doki! It was so wonderful to experience soda firing ceramics for the first time and see how this treated my usual forms.

Kiln loaded full with ceramics pieces before the firing.

Kiln shot of all the pieces after firing but before unloading.

“Monster Mask/Bowl” piece with two ears and large eyes, with a protruding tongue. Porcelain glazed with a rutile slip.

Three monster forms placed upright in the grass, they all have horns and feature a tenmoku over shino glaze.

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Glazing pieces for a soda firing this weekend! Anyone else like my glazing notes guide??

Porcelain and stoneware bisqued ceramic pieces in the shapes of monsters/masks.

Outline drawing of ceramic pieces, colored in using colored pencils.

Legend for glaze notes, each colored pencil color corresponds to different glaze combinations.

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Having fun exploring my ceramic works in other mediums! Drawing monsters:

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Kiln Reveal never felt so good... and my morning coffee never tasted so good! "Monster Mask 19," Porcelain with a Copper Red Glaze #ceramics #porcelain

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Get up babe, it’s research proposal writing season 📝🧑🏻‍💻

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

My monster sculpture lost a horn while being loaded into the kiln. Last night I made a new one. These will be fired separately, but we’ll get his lost horn on after glaze firing! #ceramics

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Getting to the end of the semester… monsters free standing and monsters emerging from the ground:

Stoneware pillars in the shape of mounds, with eyes and eyebrows, still in greenware stage waiting for the final details.

Large sculpture of four stoneware monsters with porcelain horns. They sit atop a domed base.

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

This piece has been living in my mind for almost a year. I’ve been noticing this electrical box on my walks in the park near home. Today I finished construction with sculpture clay.

Image of a defunct electrical utility box in a park, 3d model of the same electrical box.
Text reads: “Been really captivated by this structure inside of Inwood Hill Park. I modeled it in rhino so I can build a version in clay.
(The smaller one to the right is the I:2 scale model.)”

Ceramics version of electrical box, front view.

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

This past weekend I exhibited a couple of my ceramics works from the last year or so.

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Opening night for “Becoming Embodied,” where I showed a couple of pieces as part of a group show in Brooklyn!

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I’m ready for big ol’ swig of mead from my unicorn goblet. 🦄

Porcelain cup in the shape of a unicorn.

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Monsters are going to be available at a group show this week! I’m so happy to be showing this work that speaks to the parts of us that are unconscious and upside down… they may feel monstrous, but they are part of us and have a function in “becoming embodied.” July 17-19 220 Bogart St, Brooklyn

Becoming
emoadied
A multi-media art show - July 17-19
220 Bogart St, Brooklyn
Gallery hours
July 17: 4-10pm
July 18: 12-8pm
July 19: 12-6pm

Special events
July 17th: 6:30-10pm
July 18: 6-8pm
July 19th: 4-6pm
In a culture that often equates belonging with assimilation, the demand to conform can feel relentless, particularly for those whose identities fall outside dominant cultural norms. Through print, painting, text, sculpture and mixed media, these artists reclaim space, rewrite narratives, and reveal deeply embodied truths that resist erasure.

- Curated by @jazabydesign

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

My newest lizard has something to say.

Lizard urn in celadon holding a scroll of unglazed porcelain.

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Going out for NYC Pride 🏳️‍🌈

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Hornet in the Sheets Stoneware lidded jar, 2025

Tall stoneware jar in the shape of a hornet, the head is a lid in the form of the hornet with long antenna. There are two hornets crawling on the larger hornet form.

Close up of a stoneware hornet crawling on the lid of the jar.

Tall stoneware jar in the shape of a hornet. There are two hornets crawling on the larger hornet form.

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Sharing a little bit about my porcelain Lizard Urn! #ceramics

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Good morning to you! Having my first cup of coffee in one of my monster cups! 👹

Black porcelain cup with monster features like hands, eyes and a mouth

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Michael 🫧 @michaelheadrick.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Sunday Reading: Beauty Is a Basic Service by Maria Fee “Through liberating labors, Gates and the Black American church present an integrated worldview where activities of restoration are designated as soul works-spiritual endeavors that seek to emancipate creation's full potential.” (1/2)

Book cover of Beauty Is a Basic Service by Maria Fee

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