Getting Ready for the Bruce
Packing up.
New Wishing Bowl
I have been experimenting with new glazes…..What do you think?
Bringing these to the Bruce Museum this weekend and the craft fair at Lincoln Center this June. Come to see them in person!
Brooklyn Museum Fine Craft Show comes to an end
The show was a great success! It was great to be showing my work amongst so many incredible artists. Aside from seeing old and new friends, I was also interviewed by ICNTV network. I was not prepared to talk about pottery in Mandarin, so I did it in English!
Thank you to all who came and who adopted the monsters.
Back to the studio!
Heart money
The best thing about shows is the chance to meet people and watch them fall in love with the new monsters. Today at the Brooklyn Museum Fine Craft show, a young woman came by the booth…three times. She had fallen in love with Reiko’s favorite vase, Wobble. When she made up her mind to take it home with her, she paid in cash with a folded $20 bill she had been given for her wedding. We are keeping it folded… a reminder that Wobble has found the right home!
Brooklyn Museum Craft Fair 11/22-11/23
A reminder that I will be at the Brooklyn Museum Fine Craft Show on Nov. 22nd and 23rd. I hope to see you there, and if you can’t make it but have some pottery-loving friends, please share this email. It looks like a good show overall, with music and featured sculptors and free admission to the rest of the museum.Meanwhile, take a look. To see some of the kinds of work I will be showing, you can:
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Chalice and Couples pieces will be available (they have their own pages on the website), and also a kiln full of wood-fired new work that I will post pictures of…on my blog? So much to do! Or on the Facebook pages. So take a look around. Here is a peek at a couple of the new monsters, below.
GALAXY, wood-fired bottle/bud vase, shark-skin shino and violite glaze. 8 inches tall.
HAPPY BUDDHA and friends, sake set. Carafe 5″ high by 4″ wide. JIZO cups, 2.75″ wide by 2″ high.
If you don’t drink sake, the carafe doubles as a small vase and the cups can be used for tea, liquor, or as spice bowls. Wood-fired, glazed with Korean celadon, slip, with feldspar crystals.
LIP, because…well, the lip! I have five of these, all different. This one is about 12 inches in diameter, 5 inches high. Shark-skin shino glaze.
The first LIP bowl, which was also my first ever show entry, in the Tokyo-New York Friendship Ceramic Competition, was an accident. I was making a regular bowl and it started to slump so I quickly hung it upside down. Getting the hang of these, and loving the different ways they hang!
Brooklyn Museum discount…deadline coming up!
You still have time to get two dollars off the admission for the Brooklyn Museum Fine Craft Fair next weekend: November 22 and 23rd. I’ll be in Booth 6. Looking forward to seeing you there.
