Studio Work

Our annual studio open house in conjunction with the Saugerties Artists Tour is coming up quickly. We have been madly running around mowing, weeding and watering the garden & yard in anticipation of this weekend's event. If you've never been to our studio, this is a good time to come. We'll have a lot of work displayed outside in the garden as well as in the studio and hopefully have a chance to actually make some pots while you watch.
Simultaneously we have continued to make pots. Cherie worked on an order for a Brugmansia today.

dividing the pot into sections

sketching the design on the pot 

applying the coils

Finished!

another view

while Steve trimmed minis.

No box show

We have returned home from Ann Arbor! the weather was absolutely horrific. In addition to two tornado warnings and one tornado sighting, there were severe thunderstorms and a lot of rain. In the many years that we have exhibited there, we have never, never had such bad conditions. It is very difficult to purchase art work when you are constantly checking your iphone or blackberry for weather updates. Out of the four days only Wednesday and Saturday were shopable.

Take a look:

Before the rain

and during...

Only with a little help from our friends, the Biglers, did we survive!

Get Ready, Set, Go... to Ann Arbor!

We have been glazing and firing trying to get ready for Ann Arbor.  A2 as they fondly call themselves is an amazing place. They have allowed artists from all over the country to absolutely take over their small city for a week in July for 51 years. What good sports! Of course when it all began it was only one small art show. Now that art show calls itself  Ann Arbor Street Art Fair, the original  because there are so many other shows that have established themselves adjacent to it. As a result you really have a major exhibition of all sorts of artwork including entertainment. I posted some setup photos last year at this time which you can still pull up from the archives. I'll try to do some this year again but here we are getting ready:

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see you there! We'll be in space #301 in the original Art Fair on the grass diag by the Chemistry Building! come see!
July 21-14, 2010
W-F 10am-9pm and Saturday 10am-6pm

We're having a heat wave.....

a tropical heat wave.......

Here are a few photos of what we are up to: