Issue #53: Peek inside this well-known ceramicist's light-filled studio in Queens

Helen Levi talks studio space, how she feels about alone time, and feeling like a part of her community

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Aliza Sir

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I once pretended to go to the bathroom mid-meeting to buy one of ceramicist Helen Levi’s clocks — they dropped at noon on the dot, and I knew if I waited for the meeting to end, the one I was coveting would be gone. 

Helen started selling her “small batch” pottery after a serendipitous run-in with menswear designer Steven Alan at a party (his …