Opening April 25th, 2008
5:00 – 8:00pm
“Fine Art of Craft”
Center for the Arts Evergreen
Address: 32003B Ellingwood Trail, Evergreen, Colorado 80439
Phone: 303.674.0056
April 25 – May 23

I have been in overdrive for the past month getting ready for this show and also the Colorado Potter’s Guild show and sale which opens the following weekend and runs May 1 – May 3. Of course you’re invited to this event as well.

I pushed my luck and fired the work for the “Fine Art of Craft” show the day before the work was to be delivered. I breathed a huge sigh of relief when the kiln was finally cool enough to unload and made the drop off deadline to boot. Only 3 pieces will be on display in the gallery for the month and then the rest is for immediate sale in the gallery gift shop. I know many of you will not be able to attend, so here’s a sampling:

Porcelain Boxes, sizes vary, either slip transfer or hand-painted with underglaze, ^6 oxidation

Relief printed stoneware box, 6.5″ x 4.5″ x 4.5″, ^6 ox.

Relief printed stoneware tray and 4 cups, ^6 ox.

I’m much calmer now that I’ve delivered the work for the show in Evergreen and have mapped out my plan for the next 2 weeks. I’ve also dropped a few things from my schedule and feel much saner now. On Friday, I will be bisquing work that will be fired in the guild’s gas kiln on Sunday, glazing and loading the kiln Saturday and then spending most of the day at the Guild on Sunday doing the glaze fire. I’ve been told it will take 12 hours from start to finish – so I’ll have lots of time to try out some equipment I’ve been meaning to work with at the guild such as the electric slab roller, the extruder and the spray booth. I plan on making some glaze test tiles for my own use since I’m so unfamiliar with reduction glazes and I borrowed Extruded Ceramics by Diana Pancioli for inspiration.

Meanwhile, my very first “note from the universe” courtesy of TUT arrived in my inbox today to get me started with my vow to change my self destructive ways.

I’ll catch up with you on Saturday with a review of the show,

~Cynthia