Sara Adams and Nancy Nord at River District Potters joyfully make functional and artful ceramics. We have relocated our studio to the lower level of The Marketplace. We welcome visitors to see us at work and see our work in progress. Just follow the signs inside the main lobby of The Marketplace; the breadcrumbs will lead you downstairs to our studio.

Sara and Nancy view making pottery from different perspectives which is reflected in our unique work. Making pottery offers us an outlet for our creativity and a balance between the right and left sides of our brains, as well as an escape from the hustle bustle of everyday life. Ceramics is a diverse medium of expression and offers an ever-changing source of joy in creating objects from clay.

Here is more about us and our work:

Sara Adams

Sara currently creates pottery by hand building. She loves to feel the clay take shape from her hands. Sara is always learning and experimenting, making new shapes with clay and color combinations with the glazes. Sara and Nancy took workshops with Jeanne Drevas where River District Potters emerged. Sara has a shared studio at Jackson Art Center in DC and also worked at DC’s Guy Mason Rec Center and Glen Echo Pottery. Sara learned how to throw pots from Susan Jacobs at DC’s Eastern Market Pottery and has expanded skills through numerous workshops. Sara was included in RAAC’s article in 2024: For the Love of Art - Cooperative Living

Nancy Nord

Nancy currently creates both wheel-thrown and hand-built pottery. She loves to paint on her pots and uses the clay as a canvas for fruits, vegetables, herbs and the other culinary treats that the pots may eventually hold. She has worked at Glen Echo Pottery, and studied at Penland School of Craft, and with Rappahannock potters Suzanne Zylonis and Jeanne Drevas. She finds that pottery provides a creative outlet from the stresses that life in the DC area can throw at a person.