Newsletter #19
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Holiday Sale/Party & Student Show
Our annual Holiday Sale/Party & Student Show will be at the studio on Friday December 10, from 6-9pm. The sale will continue throughout the month.
RAFFLE! PRIZES! The first prize is an 8 week pottery class! There are many other great prizes, too… All profits will be donated to the pottery department at The Children’s Aid Society. (Winners will be announced on December 23.) You can purchase raffle tickets in our secure online store >
Open newsletter »Diane H Waller: Pottery & Paintings
Diane H Waller is our featured artist for November, and her work will be on display at the studio throughout the month. There will be a reception on November 14th from 4-6 pm–save the date!
Artist’s Statement
The visuals that inspire me most are the human figure and nature in its abundance. Living in New York City provides a constantly changing view of how people function mostly without nature. Always seeing whimsy and humor in everyday life gives me joy.
The focus of this exhibit is three fold.
In the pottery and small works in paint, the figure and the whimsy are obviously very present. Clearly, this was fun to do.
In some of the larger pottery pieces and a few paintings, Nature shines through in many colors shapes and forms, which is also quite whimsical at times.
Most of the cityscape paintings were done on the site and are my impressions of what was in front of me. I don’t always paint realistically, but everything is certainly recognizable. Here again, is the whimsy. Who would ever think that the New York MetLife building was purple or the Lackawanna Railroad Terminal, magenta? That’s how I see them.
I am never sure what is going to emerge from the clay or what will happen on the canvas, making my creative life a grand adventure. I say, pottery grounds me and painting drives me. They overlap or cross-pollinate. There is a singular inspiration for both.
Open newsletter »Oktoberfest
October 15th from 6-9pm
Once again, our annual Oktoberfest mug sale was a big success. Thanks to everyone who participated, and a very special thanks to d.b.a. in the East Village for supplying the delicious beer!!!
Jessie Lazar
Jessie Lazar is the potter of the month for September. Her opening reception and sale will be at the studio on September 11th from 7–9 pm.
Artist’s Statement
- I love that pottery is about being centered
- I love that something so amorphic and squishy becomes stone and glass
- I love to walk in the streets covered in clay
- I love that the more I learn about ceramics the more deeply I see of how little I know
- I love wheel #4
- I love the community structure of our studio
- I love that I love to teach
- I love that I learned to draw
- I love the endless conflict I feel between ‘functional craft’ and the word ‘art’
- I love that the history of ceramics is the history of human evolution and civilizations
