Margo's Pottery and Fine Crafts

Margo's Pottery and Fine Crafts We sell mostly functional American made crafts, a few imports and silly stuff, too.

Margo's Pottery is a fine crafts gallery featuring pottery, jewelry, paintings, blown glass, metalwork, and woodwork.

I don't know what year this was. I recognize the building as the one that now houses Sean Durrant's law offices. I did...
06/18/2026

I don't know what year this was. I recognize the building as the one that now houses Sean Durrant's law offices. I did this with Billie Gross who made hand built pottery and whose husband generously helped me with building my first kiln. I think it was a one summer proposition, and probably before 1980. When I was young, I hauled my potter's wheel around to various places. I can't even lift it now in my more aged state! And I used to wear the same farmer's coveralls almost every day when I threw pots. I think I must get my clothes dirtier now. Everyday that I make pots, my clothes are crusted with clay. And I wear clean clothes each day in the studio.

After dropping out of college, I attended Big Creek Pottery School in 1976. It was located on Highway 1, between Santa ...
06/15/2026

After dropping out of college, I attended Big Creek Pottery School in 1976. It was located on Highway 1, between Santa Cruz and Davenport, California. The only thing left standing now is one tree, the rest burned to the ground in one of the fires. I don't know when it quit being a pottery school. Right before I came to the school, Michael Cardew had been there from England teaching a masters' class. His pots were scattered around the school, and as he was famous in the pottery world, and I had read his book "Pioneer Pottery", it was very exciting to be able to touch his pottery. I came home after the session ended and had a big pottery sale in my mom's house. It was our first open house. My mom and her friends had paintings for sale on the walls, and my friend Winifred (attending the pottery school from Vermont) and I had pottery for sale all over the house. Winnie caught a ride as far as Wyoming with me, and later we found someone driving to Vermont who could take her the rest of the way. Upon returning to Vermont, she built a cabin by herself, and lived there as a potter until she became a traveling nurse. My mom still has a salt fired teapot that Winnie made at Big Creek Pottery.

I forgot to take a photo of the before firing of the back row, but here is the finished product. It takes me at least a...
06/09/2026

I forgot to take a photo of the before firing of the back row, but here is the finished product. It takes me at least a month to get a kiln load ready, between making and firing. I generally work four days a week in the studio.

I unloaded my kiln on Sunday. Here is the front row, before and after. It's interesting to me to see how much the piec...
06/09/2026

I unloaded my kiln on Sunday. Here is the front row, before and after. It's interesting to me to see how much the pieces shrink. I sure wish they didn't.....we're open six days a week now.

From 5-7 pm this evening, we're going to have an open house for the artist Lisa Lofgren. She has created an amazing ins...
05/29/2026

From 5-7 pm this evening, we're going to have an open house for the artist Lisa Lofgren. She has created an amazing installation for the store, and we want everyone to see it. Another treat for this evening is music by Caitlin and David Romtvedt.

Here's the basement studio I used in my parents' house until 1978 when I moved to my house. The pipes were covered in a...
05/28/2026

Here's the basement studio I used in my parents' house until 1978 when I moved to my house. The pipes were covered in asbestos, and fortunately there weren't too many spiders down there because my mom is very clean. My parents were very generous to let a dirty potter work in their house.

For the first several years of making pottery, I would sit outside in the summer to throw pots. While working at my par...
05/25/2026

For the first several years of making pottery, I would sit outside in the summer to throw pots. While working at my parents' house, my studio was in the basement, so I preferred being outside when I could be. This photo is from a book I was in called "Women Working Home" and was published in 1977. It was about women who created jobs from their homes. Well, I guess my parents' home qualified. By the way, the Japanese built pottery wheel was purchased used in 1977, for $300, and it's still going strong. Also, if you see the pile of bricks behind me, I used those to build the door each time I fired my kiln. I did this until I was 40 years old, and had complained so much that my husband designed and built me a door that I could close instead of build each time. In that case, my whining paid off, and I'm grateful to him every time I load the kiln. We'll close at 4 pm on Memorial Day, but otherwise, we're open until 5:30 Monday-Saturday.

Here's an early photo, pre-1978. When I came back from studying at Big Creek Pottery in California, I set up my pottery...
05/22/2026

Here's an early photo, pre-1978. When I came back from studying at Big Creek Pottery in California, I set up my pottery studio in my parent's house. My mom allowed me to glaze pots on the ping pong table I would set up in the garage once a month for glazing. She told me I could do it as long as I promised to scrub the floor after, and move everything so a car could return to its place in the garage. I'm so grateful to her for making me clean the room after because I have continued to clean very well after glazing. Each glazing session probably involves 100 pieces, so it gets pretty messy.

I have been making pots since 1974. But this is the year that I celebrate making pots full-time for 50 years. And I s...
05/19/2026

I have been making pots since 1974. But this is the year that I celebrate making pots full-time for 50 years. And I still love the work, and continue to try to make it better. I can't make large pieces as easily as I could in my youth, but I keep trying to refine my forms and glazing techniques, and I'm still learning. I don't know that anyone could ask for more. The store is open everyday except Sunday, so come on in when you can.

Pam Meyers has been making her jewelry inspired by industrial artifacts of the machine age since 1984. We just got in a...
05/13/2026

Pam Meyers has been making her jewelry inspired by industrial artifacts of the machine age since 1984. We just got in a new shipment of her jewelry into the store. It isn't out on the floor yet, but if you ask, we can show you what we have. She uses found objects, and makes castings of old industrial items. Her company name is Alchemy, and she makes her pieces in Brooklyn. We are open 6 days a week, Monday-Saturday, 10-5:30.

Address

1 N Main Street
Buffalo, WY
82834

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 10am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 10am - 5:30pm
Thursday 10am - 5:30pm
Friday 10am - 5:30pm
Saturday 10am - 5:30pm

Telephone

(307) 684-9406

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