by Rhonda Willers | Jan 9, 2019 | Featured, remembrances
If I knew how to make wonderful pots, I would never again make a bad one. My favorite pots are those that have allowed me to discover their surprises and hidden beauty only after many years of daily use. -Warren MacKenzie, excerpt from Regis Masters Series lecture,...
by Deb Bedwell | Dec 15, 2018 | Featured, remembrances
Doug Baldwin. Our Doug. Our Duck Man. How can it be that there will be no more red clay ducks in falling from his fingertips? Who will tell the stories of how artists and other peculiar humans behave in all kinds of situations through the metaphor of a few hundred...
by Joe Molinaro | Oct 13, 2017 | Featured, Member Stories, remembrances
It doesn’t seem fair. It never does. The death of a family member, friend, colleague, neighbor…no matter who it is in our lives the loss is always felt hard and deep. So was the case with our dear friend, Elmer Craig, who passed away on August 31st in his sleep in...
by Joshua Green, Executive Director | Jun 20, 2017 | Featured, remembrances
It may be that the craft arts have become so important these last several decades because we have lost our imagination for a living reciprocity with earth. We need to reimagine the reality of that connection. Putting hands-on helps. ~ Paulus Berensohn From the age of...
by Joshua Green, Executive Director | Apr 12, 2017 | Featured, remembrances
The potter who finds life in his work finds it daily in small glimpses, and perhaps these are the successes as much as anything. For example, shapes evolve guided by forces apparently outside my control. This is instinct, intellect and openness to change fusing, into...
by Joshua Green, Executive Director | Apr 11, 2017 | Featured, remembrances
Robin Hopper Remembered (1939-2017) Internationally accomplished potter, teacher, author, garden designer, and arts activist, Robin Hopper passed away on April 6, 2017. The potter’s art is one of the few in which the connection between creator and appreciator is...
