Alison Evans is in the process of getting her new shop ready to open for the summer of 2014.

Evans and her husband, Chris Fritz, have bought the building at 93 Townsend Avenue, formerly Under Currach Restaurant.

Evans and Fritz are busy working with builders, electricians and plumbers to get the building shipshape and ready to open their business, a pottery shop, by June 1.

Evans is an artist who designs and sculpts dinnerware vessels in the shape of mollusks from the gulf of Maine. Her business was featured in an article in Down East Magazine a few years ago.

The plates, bowls, platters, teapots and cups are without a doubt art, but they are also practical, usable pieces that are lead-free and dishwasher and microwave safe.

Evans spent most summers growing up in East Boothbay, where her parents have a summer home. After graduating from Rhode Island School of Design in 1998, where she majored in ceramics, she moved to New York for a while, working with ceramics, before coming back to East Boothbay to open her first studio.

She knew from a young age that she wanted to do something that would involve more physical activity and less sitting behind a desk. “When I was 14 I knew I wanted to be a potter,” she said.

Evans and Fritz own a shop in Yarmouth, the AE Ceramics Studio, and her pottery is sold in retail stores throughout the United States and overseas.

The plan for the Boothbay Harbor studio is to have a shop in the front area with an open working studio, where visitors can see the process of making, glazing and firing the pieces in the back area.

The couple plans to live above the shop, where Evans said she was happy to find “nice hardwood floors.”