Well, we have just reached a milestone at our new location today. While we have been around for a few years now as a guild, today marks our first year in our new location. It’s been a busy and productive year and we are so pleased that we took the plunge and moved into our new location. We are paying our rent, our instructors and selling pottery. And what is even more satisfying, we are teaching more and more people about the art of ceramics and what goes into the vessels that you drink out of, eat off of and admire your plants and flowers in.
We look forward to everyone visiting us at some point soon, and thank every one of our members for all their hard work in making our dream a reality and we wish ourselves a Happy something in our new home!
There is a beautiful display on at the Gallery on the Lake at the moment. Our guild members have added their art to this beautiful venue for the month of August. If you are up in the Buckhorn area, you won’t want to miss the gallery and the surrounding scenery.
Some photos from the show we have on there until the 31st August. Click on any image to see a larger image.
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What a lot of fun our campers had at our first week of Mud & Motion Day Camp. You can tell by the big smiles on their faces. There was clay, dancing, dress up and a cupcake party at the end. We can’t wait to start all over again next week!
Kickstarter has this fun project running at the moment that may get the creative juices going. They are creating a plate for every State in the U.S. The project runs until August 14th, and I’m not suggesting any of us in Canada want to buy plates of U.S. States (although a few of them look pretty neat). It’s more about the process and just the idea that you may find inspiring.
Our annual pit firing took place Saturday evening, July 5th at Dan Ferguson’s farm. Dan had the pit prepared and we all had fun helping setting our pots on their bed of sawdust and straw and watching Dan make the final tweaks before we covered them with another layer of straw and dried cow manure and wood.
While the fire roared we sat around and enjoyed a typical yummy guild potluck supper.
Saturday morning we went back to find our beautiful pots in the ashes. We really appreciate Dan sharing his skills and facilities with the guild.
~ Jackie Hodge
Pots are placed in the pit on top of various materials
Dan carefully arranges and adds more straw to the pit.
Darlene helps add the straw
Dan, putting the cow manure on top of the pots.
The pit covered and ready to light.
Here are the firebugs watching the fire take hold. this will burn over night, the pots ready to be revealed the next morning.
Mayor Bennett came to cut the ribbon to formally open our premises
We had a great day yesterday with lots of really good sports.
Mayor Bennett of Peterborough came and cut the ribbon of our new premises and then hand made a bowl that we will be selling at the YWCA’s Empty bowl event taking place on June 21st. He has spent time making pies, we suspect! Then we had MP Dean Del Mastro on hand in the afternoon and he threw a bowl as well! He learned the the placement of the tongue is very important when making pottery. We were impressed that he was able to throw a pot and keep his black suit clean!
Mike Judson made a newsroom desk for CHEX
The boys from CHEX, Tyler Calver and Mike Judson also made bowls on the wheel and had a great time. Mike Judson had such a good time he stayed longer and made a news desk! (Tyler wanted to stay but had a prior engagement) It’s such a fun place here that people love to stay!
We were impressed with all of guests that came out yesterday. What good sports. Mike and Tyler even did a re-enactment scene from the movie Ghost. Very funny.
We are still open today from noon – 4 and we welcome all to come down and view our facilities. You can have a go trying out building things with clay at our working area and be inspired to take a class! We know we will see the fellows that were here yesterday again! 🙂
Here are some photos from the day. The Spinners and Weavers as well as the Woodturners were also on hand demonstrating their art in our lovely courtyard. There is plenty of parking, so please feel free to visit.
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We were honoured to have Liz Willoughby presenting on Monday, May 13th at the Kawartha Potters Guild. She was very interesting and showed us how she puts together her Uwers with their spouts. Very good tips from a pro.
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