Porcelain by Antoinette

Antoinette Badenhorst

Porcelain artist · author · educator

Antoinette's inspiration comes from circles, cycles, and seasons.

“There is no such thing as perfection, only the striving to be perfect.”

The picture shows a few of the translucent porcelain bowls of Antoinette Badenhorst during sunset in her pottery showroom in Saltillo Mississippi.

Luminous porcelain forms, shaped by light and movement.

Koos and Antoinette Badenhorst during an interview with Mud & Magnolia magazine in the pottery studio of Antoinette. They are sitting at the pottery wheel and several of Antoinette's translucent porcelain bowls are visible on the shelf behind her.

Koos and Antoinette Badenhorst , owners of TeachinArt and Porcelain by Antoinette.


Antoinette Badenhorst is a porcelain artist based in Saltillo, Mississippi. She has led hands-on porcelain workshops in her own studio and at art centers and institutions throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, South Africa, Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, and Slovenia.

Deeply committed to arts integration in education, Antoinette is actively involved in schools across Mississippi. She recently earned her Teaching Artist Certification through the Mississippi Whole School Project after completing an intensive, year-long training program.

Her work and teaching have been featured in numerous international magazines, books, newspapers, and across television, radio, and blog interviews.

Together with her husband, Koos Badenhorst, she is the co-founder and owner of Teach in Art—an online school for arts education. The platform brings together 13 internationally recognized ceramic instructors and serves students in 58 countries and island nations around the world.


Since porcelain is a manmade clay body, it will differ from composition to composition,
​but in is broadest definition, it will always have the same demands.
This picture shows many pottery bowls with glazes that Antoinette Badenhorst tested on her own porcelain clay mediums.

This is a grid made from test tiles. Antoinette altered glaze recipes and overlapped the glazes to create new results.

Always remember where you come from.
Antoinette during an interview with the former Director of the Mississippi Arts Commission Malcolm White at PBS in Jackson Mississippi.

Antoinette interviewed at PBS by Malcolm White, former Director of the Mississippi Arts Commission.

The Diva is addicted to water. If she gets too much, she gets drunk and collapses.
Antoinette Badenhorst teaches potters in Gauteng South Africa how to throw large porcelain platters on the pottery wheel.

Antoinette was demonstrating a wide rimmed bowl process in South Africa.

Grant from the Mississippi Arts Commision


During 2025 Antoinette received another small, but very valuable grant from the Mississippi Arts Commision. 
​Although this is a small grant the importance thereof should not be underestimated, since it show a willingness of the Arts Commision to partner with artists who are willing to give their best to their community. 
This project is supported in part by funding from the Mississippi Arts Commission, a state agency, and in part, from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. 
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