Studio sale 2008

It’s getting to be that time of year again!  Here is what this year’s sale postcard looks like.  Elizabeth Robinson, potter out in Colorado, and proprietor of www.postcardsforartists.com since the birth of her child, put this together for us.  She does excellent work, is reasonable in terms of cost, and is a joy to work with.  I recommend her highly.

Guests this year are jeweler Dee Topham, who lives and works above our studio, and potter Julie Crosby from Trumansburg, NY.  Julie wood fires her functional/sculptural pots, which have a spare yet strong aesthetic, and is one of those intrepid female woodkiln potters who just inspire all kinds of admiration in us.  Plus, she’s a lovely woman to boot!  This is the way to get to see your friends…invite them to be a part of your sale! No seriously,  she makes great pots and it is an honor to have her with us this year.

I’ve been taking the past little while to make some different pots than I normally make.  Little things that have been bumping around my mind but which seem unable to come out with the pressure of shows and orders.  Whether any of them will turn out after being processed in the kiln remains to be seen, but it has been fun to make them, even as the little businessguy potter perched on my shoulder has been yelling “make more pots, make more pots, make things you can crash out that you know will sell” in my ear all day long. I have a history of hanging with the tried and true that I am trying to break.  We’ll talk about that later…

Question:  How do you know the economy is in a tailspin?

Answer:  If you’re working in my studio, where the south-facing windows open onto the CSX freightyards, and which overlook two of the main rail lines in and out of Rochester, the answer lies in counting the number of trains that go by.  And the number of workers’ cars in the parking lot.  Freight volume, and traffic, is just a small fraction of what it used to be, based upon our anecdotal visual analysis of what passes in front of our eyes, and shakes our building. The parking lot has been almost totally empty most of the past week or two, which is really unusual.  Most of the time the yard is going 24 hours a day, and the trains come night and day (trust me, as I sleep on the sofa overnight when firing the kiln, I know!), but now it’s just quiet.

OK, time to email out show announcements.

Later!

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