{"id":415863,"date":"2026-10-01T16:53:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/415863\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T16:53:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:53:03","slug":"st-pete-ceramics-reopens-in-warehouse-arts-district-eight-months-after-devastating-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/415863\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete Ceramics reopens in Warehouse Arts District eight months after devastating fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">In late January, pottery artist Beth Miranda woke up before sunrise to a devastating call from her business partner, Ethan Fielder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Their community studio, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stpeteceramics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">St. Pete Ceramics<\/a>, was engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The fire tore through much of the interior, including walls, shelving, tables, stools, and other equipment. Two rabbits that lived at the studio also died. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Miranda arrived at the studio, which is located at 593 22nd Street South in the Warehouse Arts District, around 5:15 a.m. after calling her husband in Philadelphia and taking a moment to process what she had just learned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cI got here and dealt with everything. Then I sent a text to friends in the local clay community and said, \u2018Guys, I just need prayer. This is happening,\u2019\u201d Miranda said in a conversation with St. Pete Rising.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Fellow artists arrived with bagels, coffee, pizza, gloves, and a willingness to help however they could. Within roughly 36 hours, volunteers had helped empty and clean out the fire-damaged studio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cIt wasn\u2019t just thoughts and prayers,\u201d Miranda said. \u201cPeople were physically here helping us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Firefighters who responded to the blaze believe an electrical issue caused the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In late January, pottery artist Beth Miranda woke up before sunrise to a devastating call from her business&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-415863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}