by Carole Epp | Feb 23, 2011 | Uncategorized
Dallas Pottery Invitational Refined form. Defined function. Please join us for the Fourth Annual Dallas Pottery Invitational on April 8th-10th, 2011 at the Janette Kennedy Gallery at Southside on Lamar. Come celebrate the functional ceramics of eleven nationally recognized artists. Explore the diversity of contemporary styles crafted using earthenware, stoneware and porcelain clays. Share, learn, and buy from the artists, themselves. This coming year we will host five new artists: Andy Brayman, Autumn Cipala, Kari Radasch, Monica Ripley and Deb Schwartzkopf. Also featured is our current core group of artists: Amy Halko, Daphne Roehr Hatcher, Gary Hatcher, Brenda Lichman, Lisa Orr and Louise Rosenfield.
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The work of this diverse group will provide you with a unique overview of the field of functional ceramists today. Whether you are a novice or seasoned collector, you will appreciate the exceptional opportunity to talk to the artists while viewing their wares. 
Andy Brayman Using hand made pottery every day offers the potential for a moment of reverie, giving you the opportunity to examine an often-overlooked aspect of daily life which can bring special meaning to the ordinary.
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by Carole Epp | Feb 23, 2011 | Uncategorized
As a kid growing up on an apple orchard in Southwestern Ontario, mom’s homemade play dough was my favorite thing to play with. I loved the stuff. My poor mother sacrificed her dining room table for years so that I had somewhere to create. I was always a pretty creative kid and enjoyed art classes in school.
Until high school, that is. In high school we were given the opportunity to take either art or music. I chose music. Not because I didn’t want to take art, but rather, because I was horrible at drawing and couldn’t paint to save my life. For some reason, I had always just assumed that art class in high school was all about painting and drawing, and so I avoided it like the plague. I suffered all through high school taking music classes and focusing on science, all the while wishing I could take pottery classes. Once graduation rolled around, I was off to university to persue sciences but pottery was always a lingering thought. I didn’t last long in sciences. I was horribly unhappy and knew that something had to change. I made the switch to social sciences for all of one semester but there was still something missing. I decided that if I was going to be
happy, I needed to go to school for something I always wanted to do. Pottery.
Much to the horror of my parents, I dropped out, moved back home and put together a portfolio to apply to art school. Within 6 months I was on my way to Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver where I completed a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts, Visual Arts Degree in 2002.
I have never looked back. I have been a full time potter since 2005 and am currently working in functional porcelain. I have absolutely no regrets about the path I have chosen – though really, it feels more like the path chose me.
www.ragingbowlpottery.com
www.ragingbowl.etsy.com
www.ragingbowl.blogspot.com
by Carole Epp | Feb 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
I began working in clay in 2006 when I phased out my landscaping and lavender farm business. I started at the community college with cone 10 reduction work and I am self taught with my present work in cone 6 oxidation using slab, coil and pinch methods of construction.
I enjoy every part of the process and look forward to each day in the studio. I’m inspired by nature, architecture and my travels in my work. I attend as many workshops as I can and glean so much helpful information from blogs. I recently opened an Etsy shop to sell my pottery.
I can be also be reached through my blog which lists my snail and email information at
http://bluestarrgallery.blogspot.com/
