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What's new in the gallery
If you haven't visited our gallery lately, now is a great time to stop by. We've
refreshed our entire selection with delightful new ceramic art by Yourist Studio Gallery Resident Artists.
You'll see current pieces by gallery favorites, including Darcy Bowden, Barbara Harding Brown, Nancy Bulkley, Linda Colman, Marilyn Edington, Stephen Kerr, Jessica Krivan, Evie Lichter, Jesse Richards, Marilyn Tripp, Kevan Wilson, and Kay Yourist.
And we're pleased to introduce works from new artists Michael Donley and Mark White. You won't want to miss these.
See you soon!
Photos by Darcy Bowden
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Accident or art?
What do you get when the glaze on a vase by Gabriel Duque melts onto a kiln brick, fusing the vase to the brick? Is it an accident? Or is it a wholly new and unexpected work of art?
We often talk about "happy accidents" in the studio, so we placed the fused object on a pedestal in the gallery to call attention to the beauty of this chance "sculpture."
Color us amazed when a gallery customer inquired about the price of the object and wanted to buy it.
So, what do you think? Accident or art?
Photo by Darcy Bowden
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Featured class!
Kids' Clay Mornings return June 19
Plan now to give your kids ages 7 to 10 a creative start to their summer. Enroll them in our Kids' Clay Mornings class, which runs Monday through Friday, June 19-23, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Students will spend five mornings with teacher Nancy Bulkley exploring and experimenting with clay.
Nancy will teach students how to create their own unique forms, including plates, vessels, and lidded boxes. Students will work on the potter's wheel one morning and make sculptures another.
The last morning students
will glaze the pieces they made the first two days and choose colors for the pieces they made later in the week.
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Studio calendar
It's time to pick up your bisqueware!
We need to make room for new bisqueware on our shelves, so on March 1 we're discarding the unclaimed bisqueware from January. Bisqueware left over from February will be discarded on March 31. Please note that we regularly discard unclaimed bisqueware at the end of the month following the month in which the bisqueware was fired. Be sure to claim your bisqueware promptly.
Ready, load, fire
We're loading the gas kiln
now for our next firing, so please glaze your pieces without delay.
Here's the tentative schedule for the next firing:
Loading: Now
Firing: Friday, March 3.
Unloading: Monday, March 6.
Be aware that this schedule
could change depending on the amount of work that's ready for firing.
Tool time demo
Producing a pitcher. Sunday, March 19, 4:30 pm. Pitcher season will be here before you know it. In this tool time demo, Kay will show you how to throw an attractive pitcher for lemonade, iced tea, sangria, and other cooling summer drinks. This demonstration is
free and open to the public. No registration necessary. Just drop by the studio at demo time.
Got an idea for a demo you'd like to see Kay present? Let us know. We're interested in hearing from you.
Upcoming classes
Early spring classes start during the first two weeks of March.
Book your class now.
Coffee and Clay
Saturdays, Mar 4 through Apr 8, 9:30-11:30 am, with Nancy Bulkley.
Introductory and Continuing Wheel
Mondays, Mar 13 through Apr 17, 7:00-9:00 pm, with Kevan O. Wilson.
Thursdays, Mar 9 through Apr 13, 12:30 to 2:30 pm, with Nancy Bulkley.
Thursdays, Mar 9 through Apr 13, 6:30 to 8:30 pm, with Kay Yourist.
Understanding Glazes
Sundays, Mar 12 through Apr 17, 3:00-5:00 pm, with Alex Pratt.
Try It Once on the Wheel
Saturday, Mar 11, from 1:00 to 2:30 pm with Nancy Bulkley.
Coming soon!
Kids' Clay Camp
Monday, June 19, through Friday, June 23, 9:30-11:30 am, with Nancy Bulkley.
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Repairing cracked greenware
Q.
Is there a way to repair greenware that has cracked during drying?
A.
Paper clay to the rescue! In this video from the Orchard Valley Ceramic Arts Guild in California, potter Linda Mau shows how she makes paper clay and uses it to repair a broken greenware dish.
Best of all, Mau has a recipe for paper clay that doesn't get stinky. Instead of using toilet paper or other acidic paper in her paper clay, Mau substitutes cotton linter, which she says is "basically watercolor paper" and is not full of chemicals.
Readers, if you have a burning pottery question for Kay,
ask away
. We'd like to know what you want to know.
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Brief notices
Clay community digest
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Voulkos: The Breakthrough Years
Ends soon. If you are going to be in Manhattan any time between now and March 15, don't miss this display of Peter Voulkos's work at
The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD). MAD dscribes the exhibit, which spans the years 1953 to 1968, as "the first exhibition to focus on the early career of Peter Voulkos, whose radical methods and ideas during this period opened up the possibilities for clay in ways that are still being felt today."
Get details about the exhibition
here.
Dates:
Now-March 15, 2017
Museum of Arts and Design
2 Columbus Circle
New York, NY
212-299-7700
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Bitter|Sweet: Coffee, Tea & Chocolate
Ends soon. Did the arrival of coffee, tea, and chocolate in Europe spark a revolution in ceramic and other serving, drinking, and storage vessels? Explore this question at Bitter|Sweet, the upcoming exhibit at the
Detroit Institute of Art.
The exhibit runs from November 20, 2016, through March 5, 2017. The DIA bills Bitter|Sweet as ". . . the first exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts to engage all five senses. In addition to seeing art, you can touch, hear, smell and even taste coffee- and tea-related beverages." You'll find details
here.
Dates:
November 20, 2016-March 5, 2017
Detroit Institute of Arts
5200 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, MI
313-833-7900
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John Glick: A Legacy in Clay
Ends soon
. Cranbrook Art Museum is presenting "the first major exhibition and publication to survey the immense range of ceramic vessels, tableware, and sculpture that has made Glick one of today's premier figures in American studio pottery." The exhibition will feature nearly 200 pieces from throughout Glick's career as a potter.
For details, visit
Cranbrook Art Museum. View a catalog of the exhibit
here.
Dates:
June 18, 2016-March 12, 2017
Cranbrook Art Museum
39221 Woodward Avenue
Bloomfield Hills, MI
248-645-3323
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A biennial juried exhibition and competition that "showcases the excellence of ceramic art and its diversity across the state of Michigan and neighboring states." The reception and awards presentation will take place on Friday, March 3, 2017, from 5:00-8:00 pm. There will also be a one-day workshop with juror Richard Notkin on Saturday, March 4, 2017. Get details here.
The piece at left is by ceramist Brian Kakas.
Dates:
March 3-April 1, 2017
Reception and awards presentation: March 3, 2017, 5:00-8:00 pm
Valade Family Gallery, A. Taubman Center for Design Education
College for Creative Studies
201 East Kirby
Detroit, MI
313-664-7400 (800-952-2787)
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Hailey Banda at May RNR Workshop
Get ready to join R
NR Ceramics on Saturday and Sunday, May 6-7, for a "hands-on adventure in clay."
This 5th workshop from R
NR Ceramics features up-and-coming potter
Hailey Banda, who will show you how to incorporate captivating textures in your work.
In her artist's statement, Banda says "
I create stylized utilitarian work to enhance an individual's day and to create a connection between the handmade object and the user." Learn more and register
here.
Open to the public: While the workshop is limited to registrants, this event offers something for everyone interested in ceramics. The public is invited to attend the reception, gallery sale, and artist's talk at trustArt Studios on Friday, May 5, from 6:30 to 9:00 pm.
Dates:
May 6-7, 2017. Registrants only.
Public reception, gallery sale, and artist's talk: Friday,
May 5, 6:30 to 9:00 pm
trustArt Studios
7885 Jackson Road, Suite 1
Ann Arbor, MI
734-253-2551
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Stop, look, listen . . . and act
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Without the NEA the "Earth" is just "Eh"
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Since its founding by Congress in 1965, The
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has been a significant advocate of the arts throughout the United States. The NEA partners with local, state, federal, and philanthropic arts groups to provide substantial funding and support for arts learning and participation.
"The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. What is there that can transcend deep difference and stubborn divisions? The arts. They have a wonderful universality. Art has the potential to unify. It can speak in many languages without a translator. The arts do not discriminate. The arts can lift us up."
Former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan
Regrettably, continued funding for the NEA and its important mission is now at risk. As artists, art students, and admirers of the arts we can express our support for the NEA by signing this petition,
Preserve the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, at
We The People.
The more signatures the better, so be sure to share this link. We can also help by asking our representatives in Congress to oppose elimination of funding for the NEA.
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Just for fun
Tanya vs. Pottery Art
Experienced potters make throwing on the wheel look so effortless, don't they?
But think back to your first attempt on the wheel and you're likely to recognize yourself in Tanya as she tackles throwing pottery on the wheel for the first time.
Quick, let's sign Tanya up for a class here at the studio!
And The Great Pottery Throw Down continues
View Episode 2 of The Great Pottery Throw Down, in which contestants are challenged to throw a basin for a sink.
Catch up with Episode 1 if you haven't watched it yet.
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734-662-4914 |
www.youristpottery.com
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