Bean and Bailey is a southern ceramics venture specializing in the production of small-batch functional porcelain pots. Our contemporary slip-cast ceramics address the needs for containing, serving, consuming, display, growing, and showing. We use colored porcelain slip to construct both subtly organic forms, as well as faceted vessels inspired by natural crystals and gems.
Bean and Bailey Ceramics was started by Anderson Bailey and Jessie Bean Goodman. The two met at the Appalachian Center for Craft where they worked together in the glass studio. After college, they moved out west where they honed their skills as crafts people. After several years they moved back to Tennessee to try to make a living as full time artists. Though there was lots of dabbling in between, their mutual interests in process and aesthetics brought them together to create a product line of slip-cast functional wares. Bean and Bailey was born in 2013 with a passion to produce well designed objects at an affordable price that could be incorporated into everyday rituals.
In 2018, Anderson died of brain cancer. Instead of closing the business, Jessie decided to focus on producing her favorite designs that Anderson created for Bean and Bailey with her own take on them. There have been many ups and downs trying to keep this love child alive and well. After going back to school to work in the legal field and spending two years in an office, Jessie realized that her passion will always be creating. In 2024 she built a small (a very small) studio in her back yard and has started working from home. Though the business has shrunk, the love has not.
All items are made in Chattanooga, TN in my small backyard ceramic studio.
