Friday - Chastain Studio Lofts Opening

Friday night was the opening at Chastain Studio Lofts.  It's a great space and there is a sense of comfort that settles over you when you're there.  There was food and drink and lots of great conversation along with the fine art from all disciplines that was on display.  It was crowded most of the evening and I caught up with some old friends and made some new ones.  If you get a chance to go there, do check it out.

I had so much fun that I finally left Kim and Shellie there at about 1:00 am.  I had to get back so I could get to Clayworks at a decent hour the next day to help set up for the open house.

On my way home I found a huge sinkhole in the main road in front of my neighborhood.  A 24-inch water main from the early seventies had ruptured, probably from the earthquake earlier in the week.

Kim.

Chuck and Kim.

Our hostess, Christina.

Julia, Shellie, and Kim.

The street was all buckled and it looked like Kilauea.

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Thursday night 2009-03-05

Thursday night Greg's class was making brushes. It looked like fun, but I would rather purchase them and spend more time on clay.

Makin' brushes.

On Wednesday night, I handled some mugs I had thrown in earthen red on Saturday. On Thursday night I threw some more and hope to handle them on Saturday.




During our afternoon Muddy Fun class on Saturday we were told of a developing sink hole in the parking lot and we had to move our cars to higher ground. I'm sure the monsoons we were having were responsible for it and it didn't look too bad when I left that day. Thursday night it was opened up and it was apparently larger than I thought. Good catch for the parking lot crew.

Our studio is right downtown.

Barricade city.

The main site.

It's actually quite deep.

Life is deeper than it looks.