Run for Art

If it's snowing in Black Mountain on the morning of Nov. 1...I wonder how the runners will feel about doing 5K in it.

The prizes are almost finished for them however.

Charles Freeland was glazing the plate a few nights ago, and then it was fired and out of the kiln on Friday!

Open Studio time

Each person focused intently upon their work.  The Thursday Open Studio was peaceful and busy.

5K Run for your Art

It's not a secret...and the run is this Saturday!

Start warming up - for the 3rd annual Run for Your ART 5K & Kids Fun Run - Saturday, November 1 at 10 am at the Black Mountain Recreation Park off Blue Ridge Road and Rec Park Drive - in Black Mountain.

RUN FOR YOUR ART 5k Run & Fun Run

Are you signed up for Saturday, November 1st at 10am?

A great 5K that starts & ends at the Black Mountain Recreation & Parks baseball fields with all proceeds going to supporting the community programs at the Black Mountain Center for the Arts!

Barbeque, beverages & original Clay Medallion awards after the run!
Race Day packet pick up and registration will be Saturday – November 1st from 8-9:30 at Black Mountain Recreation Fields.

To register, go to:     IMAthlete.com/events/runforyourART5k.

The teacher said...

Geoff Bird is Marsha's ceramics teacher.

He gave her a challenge to make something looser, more free in design and glaze.  Thus the tray in the foreground.  Amazingly different from Marsha's other works around it.

I personally like the casserole!

Shhh, these are for the run

Dry but not fired yet, Black Mountain 5K Run for your Art medallions were sitting in the studio the other day.  So if my spying on them gets me in trouble, please come visit me in jail!  PS, I don't know when the run actually is.

Not as romantic, but necessary

This step is covering your work with plastic...

 A very necessary step for people who can't be in the studio for 8 hours at a time. 

 But wait, on Tues and Thurs. it is pretty possible to do just that.

Take Charles' Tues class, and from 10 am till 4 pm you can work on clay.

Or take Geoff's Thurs class, and you can work from 1 pm till 8 pm.  

Ok, it's not quite 8 hours!

Thanks Jane, for being our model today!

Ready...

Bette's trays are waiting.  When the glaze has been applied, wares will wait on a shelf a few days for a full kiln load.  The next time we see these they will be finished.

Hardly at work

Jim concentrates on his creative endeavors, but it really doesn't seem like work!

Now that's a lid!

Marsha is about to glaze the lid for a big dish!

Amy's friend

Today Amy only had time to stop and check that her clay hadn't dried too much.  So she brought her little friend, Penney.

Ruth makes a choice

She's concentrating on which glaze colors she wants to use.

Mathilda's incised designs

Mathilda teaches one of our classes at BMCA Clay Studio.  She is an accomplished potter, and has claimed for herself a great technique of designs on the surface by incising.

If you can't sign up for her 6 week class, she also teaches one-day shorter classes...by appointment. 

She'll demonstrate the technique she uses to incise designs at the Clay Club meeting on Nov. 12, 6:30 pm.

The Clay Club is open to anyone interested in clay...and is a great opportunity for potters who work in their own studios to come together and socialize and share news.  Their monthly meetings include a Pot Luck supper, so come over and bring a dish to share!  The November meeting includes a great video.  More news on that soon!

Pat's glazing

When you start with a dozen basic glazes, then try one over another, that's over a hundred possibilities.  Pat shows by apron that she really gets into her clay work!

Vanessa & Extruder

Vanessa is on the cleaning up phase of her first time using the extruder.  And now she's got some really great ideas of what to do with the products, square shaped tubes to turn into....?

Practice pays off

Amelia works to perfect her techniques, from 7 pounds of clay to make a platter to the hundredth practice handle she's pulling.  It's worth it!

Bonnie's rollin' along

Yesterday you saw Bonnie seated and working at a table, and here she is using the slab roller and making some little forms.  You never know what Bonnie will come up with next...but they are all beautiful.

back in the studio again

Hi everybody...I've been gone a while.  Sorry about that, and I hope to keep you posted with more photos and news from our Clay Studio.

Here are some of us busy at work in our friendly setting yesterday.  I'll show you more individuals with their works starting tomorrow!

There are also lots of great pottery shows coming around the bend in our area...so I want to share those dates with you as well.  Many of our potters and/or teachers will have works in these shows.

Sat. Oct 18 - Arts & Crafts sale at St. James Episcopal Church, Black Mountain 10-5
Sat. Oct 18 - Tailgate Market (behind First Baptist Church,) Black Mountain 9-12
Fri-Sun, Oct 17-19 - Southern Highlands Crafts Fair, Asheville, NC (10-6 I think)