September 7 - Saturday - The Potters Market Invitational at the Mint Museum

Saturday I attended the Ninth Annual Potters Market Invitational show at the Mint Museum.  The show is a treasure consisting of North Carolina potters invited from around the state.  It's always an exciting time for a pottery nut like me to hobnob with the stars.  Everyone is so friendly that it takes me a long time to get around the tent.  It's held in a huge tent on the lawn that's large enough to hold 41 potters displays and still have plenty of walking room.

There was also a demonstration tent out front where several of my friends were doing demos.  It was good to catch up with everyone.

Potters working in the demo tent.

Potters talking in the demo tent.

Donna Craven.

Jim Whalen (right) with friends Diane Davis and Bill Chris.

Akira Satake with our own Jan Anderson.

Jan with Ben Owen.

Michel Bayne.

Alex Matisse.

Smantha Henneke.
Bruce Gholson was unavailable to join us.

Greg Scott watching Adrienne Dellinger's booth.

Julie Wiggins.

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September 13 - Catch up

I've been really busy lately as you can see by my neglect here.  Here's a quick catch up post to get us up to today.

I've been busy at work, busy making pots, and generally just running around in circles.

This Saturday is the 8th Annual Mint Museum Potters Market Invitational sale and my friends Hal and Corine are firing their wood kiln, so the day is going to be crazy fun.  I am so pleased to have been invited back to help with this firing after helping with the one in March.  It's a wonderful thing to be a part of and I wouldn't miss it for the world.

On to the last few days...

On 9/8 I started making some traditional shapes
to fire in the wood kiln.

On 9/9 I threw a rim on the larger pot,
but didn't like the way the other one was developing,
so I darted it and made a slab rim for it. 
It's a departure for me and I like it.

On 9/10 (and well into 9/11) I glazed a load of pots
that had been piling up since I missed some kilns.
It took me until 2:00 am, but I got them finished.

This is one of our spray booths.
It's great since they fold flat and store nicely.

My glazing caddy.

On 9/13 I started making some pots using loafers glory.
I thought it was time for a change to some lighter clay.
These pots should glaze differently since this clay
is missing all the iron in the clays I usually use.

I believe that catches us up to today.  Watch for the posts from my upcoming crazy Saturday!


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