hello there.

I’m Lindsey Schneider and it’s nice of you to stop by. LBP Clay is a line of handmade ceramic home objects made in Philadelphia, named after a frightful encounter with a black bear in a wilderness area of West Virginia, which I slept through. (The B in LBP is for bear.) When I think about bears, I always imagine them as fiercely strong and independent creatures of the forest, who contrastingly live off soft fruit and honey. I try to create pieces that play with this blend of softness and sharpness, using patterned surfaces, craters, and spikes built out of hardened soft stoneware clay.

I’m drawn to multiples and repetition, and particularly love it when an objects slightly diverges from the set through an intriguingly non-straight line or misplaced fingerprint. Nothing is ever molded or cast, and I love how it makes every single piece entirely unique, and resultantly, my regular designs grow and change slightly over time. That makes each pot more like a signature or heartbeat, a form that’s alive. There’s so much unpredictability in the process of making ceramics, as it’s part chemistry and part magic. A full collaboration with fire and heat. I love this about the process and how it imprints on each item a little reminder that it’s handmade. I hope you do, too. Please hand wash these pieces and treat them kindly; they are ceramic and are inherently fragile.

CUSTOM.

Over the years, I’ve done a lot of custom work and it has really brought me a ton of joy. But right now, I’m going to take some time to play, and will come back to custom orders and requests soon. If you want to see where you can purchase my work locally at an amazing brick-and-mortar store near you, click on that “stockist” link at the top of this page and show them some love.

NOT CLAY || DOCUMENTARIES.

Outside of the studio, I am an archival producer on investigative documentary films. Over the last 15-plus years, I’ve had the privilege to do deep footage and photograph research dives and rights and clearances for feature-length documentaries on most major broadcasters and streaming platforms. Most of the projects that I get to work on deal with social justice issues or extremist politics, uncovering the rarely seen sides of our society and culture to reveal dark truths.

Topics >> the early days of Russia’s invasion of Mariupol, two films about the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville (for PBS and an upcoming one for HBO), how christian nationalists have taken over right-wing politics, the plot to overturn the 2020 election, how the rise of far-right extremism led to an insurrection, the blast and ensuing shockwave in Beirut that revealed government corruption, the murder of Laquan McDonald by a Chicago police officer, the rise of neo-nazism in America, a biography of Joan Didion, the history of the Los Angeles police department’s questionable practices, that armed stand-off with the Bureau of Land Management that reignited the militia movement, a nightly news show, the rise of the Islamic State, among other things.

I’ve had the pleasure to contribute to multiple episodes of PBS / WGBH’s “Frontline” documentary series, many productions for VICE, documentaries that have aired on HBO and Showtime and Netflix, and independent feature-length documentaries. These projects have won numerous Peabody Awards, Emmy Awards, Edward R Murrow Awards, Walter Cronkite Awards, duPont-Columbia Awards, George Polk Awards, and some have even premiered at Sundance. In 2022, I was pleased to be named with a “best research” Emmy.

It’s a nice thing to balance these two creative energies: one cerebral, one physical.