Important note about how I cheat at art: My big scam is that I don’t really know how to use the wheel well. I take all the bowls and things my friends at Gasworks NYC have discarded, and then I sculpt or paint on top of them. It is a good scam and I love it.

Interviews and Articles
I haven’t written anything about my practice for a while, but here are some good interviews and things:

• Art From a Sausage podcast/video interview, 2025 (45 minutes)

• Transponder Gallery Talk at Equity Gallery, Lower East Side, 2024 (9 minutes)

• Dr. Lisa Gives a Shit podcast/radio interview, 2024 (1 hour)

• Yelling at Concrete podcast/video interview, 2023 (1 hour)

• Bored panda featured post, 2023

• Four-Lines Design text interview, 2021

• The Slip Cast podcast interview, 2021 (1 hour)

• The Potters Cast. podcast interview, 2019 (1 hour)

Here’s an old bio that I should probably update
Dave Zackin is a ceramics artist with an animation and non-profit design background working in New York City. His ceramic works — produced daily by adding text and faces to discarded vessels from a community studio — have gained a cult following of more than 100,000 people on instagram. 

Zackin earned a bachelors degree in animation at Rhode Island School of Design, a Master of Public Health at the Hunter/Cuny School of Public Health, and a Masters in Urban Studies at Queens College. His short animated film Tunanooda screened in more than eighty film festivals including New Directors, New Films at Lincoln Center and the Kodak New Filmmakers' Showcase at Cannes. He is the designer of the now ubiquitous City of New York Public Space Recycling Bins, recycling how-to stickers and hundreds of posters, public health info-sheets, and other things for the City of New York.

When not working on ceramics, he is the creative director at NYC area planning nonprofit Regional Plan Association.

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I usually have a shop section on this website.
Check instagram for the latest shop updates. Lately I’ve been doing updates every two months or so, and making everything relatively cheap so it all sells out quickly. I’m thinking of making things expensive soon.

I’m never quite sure on pricing. Little cups and bowls and are cheaper. Sometimes I make the good ones cheap and the bad ones expensive just for kicks, but usually big things and my favorite things are more pricey. 

Write to me at davezackin@gmail.com or use the "contact me" form (it goes to the same place) if you want any info or are putting together an art show or anything.

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