I'm staying at my employers second home in Beach on vacation and I googled the pottery beforehand. Yeah it's expensive but I work hard for my money and you only live once and you can't take it with you when you go. Sorry that was a run on sentence. I bought a little plate and a heart shaped bowl. I spent over $56. The owner takes pride in her work and it's beautiful. Of course I must have stood out and she inquired where I was from and gave some good tourism advice. So super friendly and items were wrapped up nicely. Support small business. read more

Prairie Fire Pottery - Casting of Buffalo track $20 and Heart bowl that looks like Theodore Roosevelt Park $36 - Paint-Your-Own Pottery Near Me - Beach, North Dakota

We saw an advertisement on our way through and were very impressed with the beautiful patterns and selection of pieces. We selected a few pieces to commemorate our trip! Definitely a great place to stop! read more

If you know me, you know I gotta heart for random aesthetic elements in my humble home. I have no plan. I just love collecting the physical manifestations of people's thoughts and feelings. Plus, I gotta talk about something other than shoving food in my face. C'mon! Out west of the North Dakota Badlands sits a small town right on the Montana border. Beach, North Dakota is a town of about a thousand rural folks. It was a thriving community several decades ago, but that fire went out and the embers been smolderin' for a long time, now. Here's the real deal. It's all I know. Beach, ND ain't exactly known for a thriving community of creative people. A lot of farmers in the area, and they talk like they ain't got time for it if it can't be sold in the ag markets. Fair enough! However, Golden Valley County has a handful of very, very creative people with great ideas and beautiful expression. I got time for that. The fire in this ol' farming town is kept alive by a solitary artist who has infiltrated the ranks of the philistines with a little store that sells pottery. Tama Smith is a young lady with an aesthetic eye and the creative hands of an angel. Her pottery is stunning and it blooms with the patterns and colors of the surrounding geology. One of the nicest people I have met. This is what I'm talkin' here. When you consider the available foot traffic in Beach, you gotta wonder if she's gotten on the good side of divine intervention in order to make it work. One visit to her shop, and you know her success is skill-driven. Tama Smith has been operating this shop for quite some time, now, and people from all over the country have her wonderful artifacts in their homes. That only happens with good, honest folks. I got a compulsion to rate Tama Smith very highly. Anyone can sell pottery in places like Gatlinburg, TN or Estes Park, CO. To run a successful art studio out of a town that struggles supporting a fast food shop is testament to the outstanding quality of the product. I'm a believer that Tama Smith is the seed from which the community of Beach could resurrect itself as an oasis of artisanship. Some people you can just tell by the look in their eyes and the song in their voice. She may be able to, both literally and figuratively, create vitality from clay. Listen, if you are racing through the top states, take a pit stop and drop in to talk with Tama. I'm not gonna steer you wrong. She creates heirloom quality relics that are fit to be handed down from one generation to the next. Her art makes outstanding gifts and her pieces are beautiful as well as functional. This world's got a limited supply of people like Tama Smith. She's a real gem. If you can't bring yourself to get agoraphobic out in the middle of nowhere, I'll toss up a link to her shop. I'm a huge fan of artists, so I gotta drop the truth when the truth presents itself. Take a look! Don't leave empty-handed! Be Awesome! https://www.prairiefirepottery.com/ read more

Great little shop in what seems like a middle of nowhere town. The owner is really passionate about all thing pottery and appears to knows her stuff. Beautiful pottery, but very expensive - would have loved to own a couple of pieces but couldn't really splurge several hundred dollars. read more

Very talented artist! We had been looking for a urn for our son and she had the one. It is beautiful!! We met the artist, Tama Smith and she is an amazing woman! The drive was defiantly worth it. Her gallery displays her beautiful pottery. read more

Prairie Fire Pottery - This Pottery studio was defiantly worth the drive! All of the artist work is amazing! We met Tama Smith, the very talented artist. - Paint-Your-Own Pottery Near Me - Beach, North Dakota

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Words and pictures can not express the beauty of this amazing pottery. The artist is the on location and she is so kind and compassionate not only about her work but her customers as well. We lost our son and had been looking for an unique, one of kind urn, and her art work helped us to find this difficult piece of pottery, and her love for her art and people showed us more peace than she may know! Her pottery is truly amazing! A must stop, for all around beauty! read more

I stopped at the Visitor Center on I-94 & admired a couple pottery pieces behind the counter. The woman there gave me directions to the potter's shop. I've been past the Beach, ND, exit dozens of times, but I'm so glad I stopped this time. The artwork is outstanding, and the classy shop seems like it was dropped into this dusty hamlet from Fargo or the Twin Cities. She knows pottery and knows how to display it, which shows, I guess, that she is truly artistic. The prices are reasonable, and they packed my purchase in bubble wrap even though it was just going to sit in the car for a day and a half while I drove home. The worker said she's from Bismarck. If she doesn't have a sales outlet there, she should. Or in Fargo. Somewhere. This shop feels like a candle hidden under a basket. read more

My oh my such beautifully created items. My 2009 Beech Centennial bowl is my favorite of the rotating centerpieces for my dining room table ! read more

Located near the Badlands of North Dakota, Prairie Fire Pottery borrows from the colors nature has given to that region and alllows you to take a little piece of it home. Tama and Jerry have a great shop in Beach, ND, and a great online shop in case you can't make it there. I've collected pottery for 30 years and this is as good as it gets. read more