Kawartha Potters Guild It’s hard to imagine, when you come to a show and see it all set up, how much work is involved putting up the displays, unpacking all of the work, not to mention the cash area and wrapping station. Here are a few photos showing some of our potters setting up for the recent show.
Ceramics can provide ritual to quiet a frazzled mind. But even when it doesn’t go so well, there are lessons to be learned in calm perseverance. Jane Gross shares a lesson from the potter’s wheel.
Source: The Clay Will Tell You How You Are
That is the final tally from Empty Bowls 2015. $10,130.00 will now be going directly into our community to support food security. From our accounting, the sale of tickets and bowls brought in $4,000.00. The results speak for themselves and in terms of community engagement Empty Bowls 2015 year was a winner!
Kudos to the YWCA for having the vision to grow this event, and sincere thanks to the members of our Guild and the Wood Turners’ Guild who donated approximately 175 bowls. We would also like to thank Lillian, Cathy, Dawn, Anne, Lorne, Dawn’s mother, Shelby and Pete who staffed our booth and transported pots on the day itself.
Our Saturday Clay Club had an outdoor excursion this past weekend. A few of the members went to Tuckers Pottery in Richmond Hill to take part in the festivities and buy some supplies. Cathy won a gift certificate for her throwing mastery (with a non-thrower).
Thanks Lillian and George for a great day! A group of our members got together for a Raku Firing at Lillian’s place. A few first time people new to the art of Raku, but everyone had a great day and there are some lovely pots to show off now.
Natalie Thornhill is one of our new instructors. She has been teaching the Flex classes this summer, but I’m sure we will be seeing more of her in the fall.
In 2013 Natalie completed formal training through the Ceramics Certificate program at Haliburton School of Arts. Today, when Natalie is not working on her art, you may find her digging as an archaeologist and teaching at Fleming and Centennial Colleges in Ontario.
We welcome her to the guild. To read more about her background, you can visit our Instructor page.
Take a look at one of her lovely teapots (right).
We had an open house on June 20th to celebrate our new equipment which was made possible by a Trillium Grant. There were free throwing sessions. Thanks to all who came out!
While on a road trip to New York City recently, member Mary Sullivan made a detour to Bailey Pottery Equipment in the lovely town (or city) of Kingston, New York. What a beautiful place. They have a small showroom where you can look around and see some of the thousands of items in their catalogue, and their offices are filled with original ceramic works by famous (I’m sure) artists from all over.
It was worth the visit!
Our member Rosemary Jenkins, was featured on a recent segment of Daytime on Rogers TV in Durham. Check out her interview! Click on the image below.
Two of our own members, Janet McDougall and Lucia McHardy are involved in an upcoming show at the Kawartha Arts Network from May 7 – 30th, with the opening on Saturday May 9, from 1 – 3pm.
Lucia has new works in stoneware: large decorative bowls, and table & floor vases and Janet has a variety of thrown & hand built work.
Sandi has all sizes of basketry and wall pieces made from hand gathered local materials. Carol has paintings and stone animal sculptures.
For a Poster of the show, with more details, click here.