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Ceremony opens online Seattle ceramic shop featuring food themes
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Naomi Tomky, Special to the Seattle P-I
April 5, 2021
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When ceramicists Karen Chung, Stephanie Hsie and Corey Gutch opened their collaborative studio, Ceremony, last year, they talked about one thing constantly: food.
Based in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District, the neighborhood’s restaurants sustained them with dumplings, noodles and soups, as they spent late nights hand-painting teacups with shrimp, chicken feet, and scallions.
Ceramicists Karen Chung, Stephanie Hsie and Corey GutchCody Cobb/Ceremony
The trio met in pottery classes at the Montlake Community Center, with Hsie and Chung first selling their work in 2019 at the Hing Hay Coworks AAPI Arts and Crafts Fair, before they opened their studio late last year with Gutch. They previously sold pieces on Instagram and stock their work at nearby Sairen, but have now launched an online store, opening access t
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