Celebration of Seagrove Potters -- Gala

I wanted to load some images up from last night. I need to go eat my oatmeal and back to the Luck's Cannery to set up for this morning. Last night was a lot of fun and we all enjoyed ourselves. I will fill in who is in the pictures another day.

Celebration of Seagrove Potters -- Set Up

The North Carolina Pottery Center has a display table at the entrance with historic NC Pottery books and other NCPC information including membership.
Last night Ed and I went back to the Luck's Cannery to set out our pottery. We hit the wall around 8:45 and thought that we would continue in the morning. We met Will McCanless (McCanless Pottery) and Meredith Smildson leaving about the same time as we were. It is all up from here!

Below is our booth as we left it. Gloria and Ed will go back this morning and finish up. We need to be completed by noon so the caterers have plenty of room to set up for this evening's Gala. I am going to work on glazing for the Carolina Designer Craftsman which is next week in Raleigh.

I went around really quick to see if I could find any smiling faces. There were a few left right before Ed and I left.

Below is Chris and Lisa Luther of Chris Luther Pottery

Dan Triece of Dirtworks Pottery came on over to see what was going on and expressed a how do you do to all of you.
Here is Randy and Sherry James of Dixieland Pottery. You may remember them from a previous post that we did back in August about the Luck's Legacy Kiln Opening. They were just about set up and putting a few finishing touches on their booth.
Michelle Kovack of Kovack Pottery is set up beside them.

Paul Ray of Ray Pottery is sporting his Alice Cooper t-shirt, we like it too.

Sheila Ray (Paul's wife) is hanging out talking with David and Alexa Fernandez of Seagrove Stoneware.
Blaine Avery of Avery Pottery and Tileworks is getting set up and ready to display his pottery.

New Vases

We unloaded a kiln this morning with our art pottery glazes. Bruce and Ed are at the Luck's Cannery setting up the booth. When they get back we will go back over with some more pots that Gloria and I have been packing up. Gloria is up at the shop packing right now wondering where I am.

When Bruce gets back he will start cleaning these vases up for tomorrow.

Gala Collaboratives out of the kiln

Here is the pair of 16" vases that came out of Ben Owen's kiln yesterday. Donna Craven threw these bottles and Samantha glazed them.

The crystalline piece below came out this past Tuesday. Bruce threw the 24" bottle and Will glazed it.

Lots of fun going on under the sun at Bulldog Pottery

And some more..... It is a wonderful day here. We are all busily getting pots finished and kilns fired. Bruce is working on putting handles on our Carolina Designer Craftsmen "Masterpiece" . Below Ed is working on sieving the slip that will be applied to the handled urns that Bruce has been working on. I am figuring out what decoration will be applied to his forms and then back to him for some more imagery. This is something new for us and we are excited to see the outcome.
And some...... Gloria is helping to clean the functional pots which we will put our Moka glaze. These pieces will be ready for the Carolina Designer Craftsmen show in Raleigh on Thanksgiving weekend.

Ed is making mulch out of the leaves that have fallen from the trees and Gloria is cleaning away.

Samantha is performing the pot whisperer into her pieces before she begins to glaze.

And now... it is night time and Bruce is gluing on the pedestals rings onto our vases. These vases will have our molybdenum crystalline glazes on them and will be out for the Celebration this weekend!
I am getting tired about now and start looking around. I looked up and noticed the dinosaur gourds I grew back in 2002. Wow, have they been drying up there for that long?? Yes. We have to admit that they have been up there for the past how many years?

Found a kiln for Donna's and Samantha'a Collaborative

We found a kiln to put our collaborative vase pair into (Donna's thrown vases and Dotty Sam's glaze combo). Ben Owens is loading a reduction kiln today and said he had room along with his 20" vases. YEAH!!! What a relief. Bruce loaded them in the car and drove them right on over to Ben's place.

I wonder how Will's and Fred's glaze work collaborative is coming along?

To see more collaborative pieces you can visit the Celebration of Seagrove Potters website.

New Vases

We unloaded a few large vases this morning along with some cups.