I'll be posting some of my visiting photos, of course, of museums, galleries, and scenery!
Today's Quote:
You must have shadow and light source both. Listen, and lay your head under the tree of awe.
Rumi
Showing posts with label Potters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Potters. Show all posts
Friday, September 27, 2019
When the cat's away...
I'll be posting some of my visiting photos, of course, of museums, galleries, and scenery!
Today's Quote:
Friday, March 2, 2018
Clay action...
Some potters do things together...
At a Clay Club meeting, 2015, at John Britt's studio, I'm in the brown shirt with yellow purse. We're considering test tiles showing results of different formulas for glazes. That's John's specialty, and we learned a lot. Going to one of his workshops or reading his books would be even more information! But the Clay Club still is meeting once a month somewhere in western North Carolina.
Fine balancing act between Cindi and Charles, with Barbara watching...glazing a large platter!
Oh yes, another famous potter, Picasso.
Don Reitz, a potter master who died in 2014. I saw one of his pots at the Museum of Fine Art in St. Petersburg, FL last month!
I love reading the few potters blogs that are left. We're a dying breed I think. Here's a few of my favorite links in case you're in the mood to learn how we tick.
and more that will appear in the right column of my blog!
I'm missing some of my old time favorites, people must have found a new/different way of sharing. I'm sad, because I like this meme. But I admit many of the same folks now post over on Facebook, and they are my friends there as well. However, I just cut back on using Facebook because of it's editorial limitations.
I'm linking to Sepia Saturday this week, because out of all those young caddies, how many of them might become masters at anything....and yet, it's possible!
The caddies and Caddy Master.
Thanks for stopping by, and please feel free to comment. I'm getting a bit lonesome here in blogland!
Today's quote:
I love reading the few potters blogs that are left. We're a dying breed I think. Here's a few of my favorite links in case you're in the mood to learn how we tick.
and more that will appear in the right column of my blog!
I'm missing some of my old time favorites, people must have found a new/different way of sharing. I'm sad, because I like this meme. But I admit many of the same folks now post over on Facebook, and they are my friends there as well. However, I just cut back on using Facebook because of it's editorial limitations.
I'm linking to Sepia Saturday this week, because out of all those young caddies, how many of them might become masters at anything....and yet, it's possible!
The caddies and Caddy Master.
Thanks for stopping by, and please feel free to comment. I'm getting a bit lonesome here in blogland!
Today's quote:
Moral courage is a rarer
commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence, yet it is the one
essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world.
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ROBERT F. KENNEDY
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Sunday, April 5, 2015
Potters of Madison County
And other areas...like Virginia, and New York?
This is only the 5th annual show, and the 2nd one I've attended.
An old gymnasium on an island in Marshall, NC hosts this lovely immersion of good pottery. It seemed to be a room full of beautiful pots and beautiful potters!
Part of my joy as a "hobby-potter-not-production-but-studio-potter-is-ok" was talking with these artists and having them answer "how they did that." Amazing!
I'm going ahead and posting this Easter Sunday, because waiting till Monday would mean some of you will miss reading/seeing this.
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| New York |
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| New York |
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| Fellow blogger, Dan Finnegan was there (Virginia) |
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| Dan's birds |
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| Dan and his pots |
This is only the 5th annual show, and the 2nd one I've attended.
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| Becky Lloyd |
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| Steve and Becky Lloyd's gorgeous Sgraffito was on display again, though without Steve now. He died shortly after the show here last year. |
An old gymnasium on an island in Marshall, NC hosts this lovely immersion of good pottery. It seemed to be a room full of beautiful pots and beautiful potters!
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| I succumbed to the cat on a mug painted by Charlie Tefft of Summerfield using mason stains, then sprayed glaze which looks salt fired |
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| Charlie |
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| Ms Bringle saw me snapping her, as well as (not hers) lovely pottery |
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| The potters work was all fabricated in the best of designs |
I'm going ahead and posting this Easter Sunday, because waiting till Monday would mean some of you will miss reading/seeing this.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Women working (potters)
For Sepia Saturday this week, the suggestion is a photo of a woman who is assembling boxes (as shown)
I could only show a few women potters, but not in sepia tones.
Some of these women potters really influenced me. I did a whole month of blogs a few years ago of women artists for Women's History Month, March 2011. It's already been posted, so I won't copy myself, just give you the links HERE.
Adelaid Alsop Robineau developed new glazes, was a leading ceramic designer, and worked to develop American ceramics in the 19th century. She's pretty close to the Sepia Saturday posting.
I really learned a lot from M.C. Richards. Here's a post where I featured her a few years ago M. C. Richards and Me. Actually it tells how I first came to work with pottery.
Judy Chicago's Dinner Party installation is a collection of dinner places honoring various famous women. Since 2007 it has been on permanent exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, New York. I've never seen it in person, but was impressed while studying ceramics, and started making sculptural pieces as a result.
From Wikepedia
"The table is triangular and measures 14.63 m (forty-eight feet) on each side. Each place setting features a table runner embroidered with the woman's name and images or symbols relating to her accomplishments, with a napkin, utensils, a glass or goblet, and a plate. Many of the plates feature a butterfly- or flowerlike sculpture as a vulva symbol. A collaborative effort of female and male artisans, The Dinner Party celebrates traditional female accomplishments such as textile arts (weaving, embroidery, sewing) and china painting, which have been framed as craft or domestic art, as opposed to the more culturally valued, male-dominated fine arts.
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| Funjoho African potter |
I could only show a few women potters, but not in sepia tones.
Some of these women potters really influenced me. I did a whole month of blogs a few years ago of women artists for Women's History Month, March 2011. It's already been posted, so I won't copy myself, just give you the links HERE.
Adelaid Alsop Robineau developed new glazes, was a leading ceramic designer, and worked to develop American ceramics in the 19th century. She's pretty close to the Sepia Saturday posting.
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| Scarab Vase by Adelaide Alsop Robineau |
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| Robineau and Scarab vase |
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| Maria Martinez of San Isledefonso, New Mexic | o |
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| Black on Black Bowl by Maria Martinez |
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| Nan Smith, my clay professor at University of Florida |
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| Nan's photos of her work are all copyrighted, so I am just showing pictures of her (center). |
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| M. C. Richards, author of "Centering, in the Art of Pottery and Person" |
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| Judy Chicago |
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| Installation, The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago |
From Wikepedia
"The table is triangular and measures 14.63 m (forty-eight feet) on each side. Each place setting features a table runner embroidered with the woman's name and images or symbols relating to her accomplishments, with a napkin, utensils, a glass or goblet, and a plate. Many of the plates feature a butterfly- or flowerlike sculpture as a vulva symbol. A collaborative effort of female and male artisans, The Dinner Party celebrates traditional female accomplishments such as textile arts (weaving, embroidery, sewing) and china painting, which have been framed as craft or domestic art, as opposed to the more culturally valued, male-dominated fine arts.
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| Virginia Wolf design for place setting, by Judy Chicago |
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TOSHIKO TAKAEZU |
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| Moonpots by Toshiko Takaezu |
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Potter friends
For potters only:
And if you didn't get a chance to see this great combo of interviews with various potters on Fetish Ghost Secret Studio
don't miss spending some time (give yourself time, even in chunks when you can)
MN Potter's Sharing the Fire
It has taken me a few times coming back to watch this. Well worth it.
One break for a great spinach salad with Florida tomatoes. No kidding, bringing back fruit in a cooler gave me the best tasting ones I've had since I picked my own. My plants haven't produced here this year. The salad has yesterday's left over guacamole drizzled in the central part, a few dried cranberry buds all over, and some honey mustard dressing just on the outer leaves.
This morning I took a break to have some red grapefruit with honey drizzled on it. Can't remember where I learned this but it's such a heavenly combination of flavors.
What kind of clay project are you working on these days?
I've decided to give each of my sons and grandchildren a plate with their names on them for my 70th birthday. Hey, it commemorates not only my birth, but the first time all of them will have gathered for a celebration of my family. (The son number one's ex-in-laws have annual Christmas Eve parties, and I think we've all been there one or two times. But now my son is divorced, and even though we are still invited, it might be a bit strange if his ex has another date for their party sometime.)
So today I threw some plates. Can't trim them for a day though, at least because I'm busy at the times the community studio is open. That should be ok. If worse comes to worse, I'll trim them in 2 days, and with the humidity we've been having, 2 days may be just about right.
OK, lots of people keep saying they're coming over for something or another. And I just wanted to drink a beer and relax this evening. (Oh oh, you've found me out, I write my posts the night before they are posted) So I'll try to be able to walk straight if I need to.
And if you didn't get a chance to see this great combo of interviews with various potters on Fetish Ghost Secret Studio
don't miss spending some time (give yourself time, even in chunks when you can)
MN Potter's Sharing the Fire
It has taken me a few times coming back to watch this. Well worth it.
One break for a great spinach salad with Florida tomatoes. No kidding, bringing back fruit in a cooler gave me the best tasting ones I've had since I picked my own. My plants haven't produced here this year. The salad has yesterday's left over guacamole drizzled in the central part, a few dried cranberry buds all over, and some honey mustard dressing just on the outer leaves.
This morning I took a break to have some red grapefruit with honey drizzled on it. Can't remember where I learned this but it's such a heavenly combination of flavors.
What kind of clay project are you working on these days?
I've decided to give each of my sons and grandchildren a plate with their names on them for my 70th birthday. Hey, it commemorates not only my birth, but the first time all of them will have gathered for a celebration of my family. (The son number one's ex-in-laws have annual Christmas Eve parties, and I think we've all been there one or two times. But now my son is divorced, and even though we are still invited, it might be a bit strange if his ex has another date for their party sometime.)
So today I threw some plates. Can't trim them for a day though, at least because I'm busy at the times the community studio is open. That should be ok. If worse comes to worse, I'll trim them in 2 days, and with the humidity we've been having, 2 days may be just about right.
OK, lots of people keep saying they're coming over for something or another. And I just wanted to drink a beer and relax this evening. (Oh oh, you've found me out, I write my posts the night before they are posted) So I'll try to be able to walk straight if I need to.
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