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notes from an artist-in-residence: June 2009
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Notes from an artist-in-residence. Making 'mudpies' in the Rocky Mountains: Syma at the Tin Shop, Breckenridge, Colorado. Sunday, June 7, 2009. Sumi von D. loading pots into the pit, nestling each into sawdust. Workshop participants loading kindling into the pit. Fire in the hole! This burned for several hours yesterday and cooled overnight. Unloading the pots from the pit this morning. Smoke and fire was the painter on our pots. Lady Godiva After the Ride. Posted by syma,ceramic artist. Buoyed up by the...
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notes from an artist-in-residence: June 2008
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Notes from an artist-in-residence. Making 'mudpies' in the Rocky Mountains: Syma at the Tin Shop, Breckenridge, Colorado. Saturday, June 28, 2008. Why is it so easy to talk the talk? But then why is it such a challenge for me to listen to what I say to my students? I urge them to be open to the changes that the smoke and fire bring, and then I am shocked and not so ready to accept what unfolds. I know, I know, I keep saying that the magic of the art process, (at least this barrel-firing process), is that...
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notes from an artist-in-residence: Getting Started
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Notes from an artist-in-residence. Making 'mudpies' in the Rocky Mountains: Syma at the Tin Shop, Breckenridge, Colorado. Sunday, May 24, 2009. A visitor to the studio looks at 3 of the vessels that I made last year here at the Tin Shop. The two large. Bottomless Vessels to Hold Big Change'. For color or perhaps encaustic. Transfers. It is both exciting and daunting to not yet know how I will finish them. I think that it may have been Paulus. Who once said that. Were a good place to start? Haystack, wher...
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notes from an artist-in-residence: The Journey
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Notes from an artist-in-residence. Making 'mudpies' in the Rocky Mountains: Syma at the Tin Shop, Breckenridge, Colorado. Saturday, May 23, 2009. After a brief trip to Boston for the opeing of the SMALL TREASURES exhibit at Vessels Gallery, which included my 'Black Figure Little Pots of Gold',. I went back to South Station to return to NYC to finish sorting through my favorite tools and whatever else I wanted to bring to Colorado. I went to the Watershed fundraiser in NYC and then finished packing. I am ...
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notes from an artist-in-residence: A Visit from the Travel Channel Crew
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Notes from an artist-in-residence. Making 'mudpies' in the Rocky Mountains: Syma at the Tin Shop, Breckenridge, Colorado. Saturday, June 6, 2009. A Visit from the Travel Channel Crew. The Travel Channel was in town shooting for an October show called 'Destination Breckenridge'. They shot a bit of footage in my studio while I worked on the new. Bottomless Vessel to Hold Big Change. The Treasure Hunter,. Posted by syma,ceramic artist. June 6, 2009 at 12:26 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Newspaper ...
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notes from an artist-in-residence: Barrel Firing Workshop
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Notes from an artist-in-residence. Making 'mudpies' in the Rocky Mountains: Syma at the Tin Shop, Breckenridge, Colorado. Friday, May 29, 2009. I love what can happen when there is a balance between teaching and having my own time in the studio. The energies seem. To flow. And my muse seems to sing and dance. Showing the ceramics students from Colorado Mountain College how to wrap bisqued. Pots with crepe paper streamers, corn h usks. And string. in the Arts District's new Ceramic Studio space. NEW YORK ...
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The Clay Art Guild of the Hamptons, Celadon Gallery, Pottery
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About the clay art guild. The clay art studios. Celadon gallery and shop. I have been working in clay for 25 years. Working in woodfiring, pit firing, horse hair firing, soda firing and raku, my vessels take their influences from natural forces in our environment. I find physical impulses are represented in the process of creating the work and the finished piece. The Clay Art Guild of the Hamptons, Inc. is a non-profit creative community devoted to teaching clay art,.
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notes from an artist-in-residence: Fire and Smoke
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Notes from an artist-in-residence. Making 'mudpies' in the Rocky Mountains: Syma at the Tin Shop, Breckenridge, Colorado. Sunday, June 7, 2009. Sumi von D. loading pots into the pit, nestling each into sawdust. Workshop participants loading kindling into the pit. Fire in the hole! This burned for several hours yesterday and cooled overnight. Unloading the pots from the pit this morning. Smoke and fire was the painter on our pots. Lady Godiva After the Ride. Posted by syma,ceramic artist.