Artist Sunshine Thacker Built Her Upstate New York Dream House Brimming With Color, Memory and Emotion

By Amir Capogrossi Badreddine

A dream spoke to Sunshine Thacker, the internationally renowned ceramicist. It led her up New York’s Hudson River, through the apple orchards that dot the region, to a clearing surrounded by maple trees. “I remember closing my eyes and thinking about my definition of a safe place,” says Thacker.