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Greater than the Sum

Mar 3, 2010 6:39am

I just had some new photos taken of my work by fabulous photographer and my friend for 30 years, Jean Michel Addor. It always amazes me what he can do to enhance the pieces. Jean Michel can make the work positively glow and have a greater ...

Time for Love...

Feb 11, 2010 6:53am

Christa was asked to do an article for Studio Potter Magazine about financially surviving as a full time potter. Her well written musings on this subject can be found in the current issue. She included me in the story! Along with this the magazine published 2 photos of...

Ah...CUBA

Jan 16, 2010 7:44am

Back from a week in Cuba. LOVED every minute though it was quite cold.Magic land. Time stopped soon after 1959.This is a REALLY GOOD Thing. ...

See you in C U B A

Jan 2, 2010 7:49am

We are taking a little trip to Cuba. We'll be gone a week, adventuring and meeting new family (my daughter Susannah's husband's). I'm planning on taking lots of photos, hoping I get to snap images as beautiful as this (lifted from the wunderground site):Adios....

Ready for 2010

Dec 31, 2009 7:17am

Time to dust off your fancy dress and P A R T Y... Me? I'll probably be happily tucked into bed by 10:30, dreaming of the new pots I will be making this year. H A P P Y N E ...

Gumby Inspired

Dec 21, 2009 8:21am

While you are wrapping your presents and finishing up your last minute decor you can watch this really cool little piece made by the creator of Gumby - Art Clokey. I found it most inspiring: ...

It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like....

Dec 19, 2009 7:39am

....I'm going to make it! Christmas approaches next week. The tree is up, my presents are made - well almost, tonight is Cookie Making Saturday Eve for my daughter Susannah's cookie party tomorrow. This is fourth & clay's last weekend to be open during the Holiday open...

Party time at fourth & clay

Dec 5, 2009 7:21am

I had a great time last night at the first ever CAB+ (ceramic arts of Berkeley) event. People came, I sold some work but the best part for me was getting to work with the incredible John Toki, Derik Van Beers and the EB ceramic artists and friends who...

48 Ceramic Artists

Dec 1, 2009 7:27am

On this Friday, from 5 -10 pm, 48 of the Bay Area's finest ceramic artists will gather to show their work. Pleases join us for the first ever CAB+ (Ceramic Arts of Berkeley) Holiday Event. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Martin Luther King Jr ceramics...

A Small Whine at Holiday Time

Nov 25, 2009 6:39am

Yesterday our new Berkeley High Intern, Jackson, stripped all the old work out of fourth & clay, mopped and waxed the floor, moved the furniture, changed the burnt out light bulbs (he's 6'7" and that really helps with the light bulb changing)and polished the pedestals. Our studio is is...

Black & White

Nov 21, 2009 8:01am

Lately my work has been all about black and white.... the user supplies the color.My friend Lynn who owns several of my new inlaid clay pieces told me that a bright orange tangerine or several acid green olives look fabulous in the black and white bowls.This gives me a whole...

Friday at the "Flea"

Nov 6, 2009 9:11am

Technically what we attended today is called Brocante de Antiquites. ItIs the massive 10 day antique faire held in Paris every November. I feel so happy we were here for it. It flanks both sides of the canal near the Bastille. You can find...

Patterns

Oct 29, 2009 10:18pm

Yesterday we wandered in Paris with my daughter Susannah and her husband Yadir. It was the perfect Paris day. If I had one complaint it would be that for some reason there are tons of tourists around.... Isn't this supposed to be "off season"?...

Cemetary Ceramics

Oct 26, 2009 11:10pm

OK I'm a bit eccentric but I really love visiting cemetaries. On Sunday we walked to the little one in Lourmarin.to pay our respects to Albert Camus, who is burried there. On many of the graves were bouguets of wonderful ceramic flowers like the violets pictured...

Friday- Lourmarin Market Day

Oct 23, 2009 5:29am

Today is Friday and that means market day in Lourmarin. We've been visiting many of the local markets of Provence-some have been a bust. Chateau Neuf for example had only one vegetable stand, a rotessiere chicken truck and a dude selling mattresses. Viason la Romaine...

Clean Feet

Oct 20, 2009 9:24pm

These beautiful Roman jugswere at the city museum across from the HUGE ancient threater in Orange. They were so perfectly preserved.What impressed me most was the trimming on the feet - so perfect, precise and dainty with the tiniest little turn up at the edge.Being in the...

Travelog from Caianne FR

Oct 11, 2009 10:58pm

We arrived after a few unexpected transfers and many hours in the air. John bravely commandeered our rented hybrid Citroen down tiny country lanes with two lane traffic, around many traffic circles. People are very serious about getting to their destinations fast around here....

One more test

Oct 6, 2009 8:11am

Just to make sure.OH, This is SOOOOO cool.Next post will be from France, I promise....

Works Like A Charm

Oct 6, 2009 8:04am

This is a test to see if I can blog on my iPhone.IT WORKED.....iPhone and Andre I LOVE you....

A Question

Oct 3, 2009 7:31am

Next Thursday John and I leave for a five week adventure in France. I am so excited. We've been planning this trip forever and I just can't wait. Photos attached are from a trip we look 3 years ago. I am wondering if any of you out...

Mastering Mishima

Sep 28, 2009 8:12am

I finally got some of the pieces I made at Christa's workshop I took this summer finished. I took the hammer to a couple as the glazes were just plain awful but this one came out pretty well...I think. I was inspired by many, many things in this workshop...

There are 100 pottery blogs out there

Sep 24, 2009 7:24am

Yesterday I received notification that Josie Goes To Pot is one of the top 100 pottery blogs. This honor is given by the Daily Reviewer. I have never heard of the Daily Reviewer but they didn't want any money so I am accepting this award and would like...

Old School

Sep 11, 2009 6:30am

Several years ago (and I am talking SEVERAL) I got hopelessly addicted to my kid's Game Boy game Tetris. I eventually got my very own little gray box and would keep it by my bed - switching on the eerie, vaguely Russian music and trying to lock in the...

On a Clear Day...

Aug 30, 2009 8:40am

Back to work in the Berkeley studio. Waxing, glazing, waxing, glazing, UN GLAZING. Duncan discontinued my favorite clear glaze, Diamond Clear, I think because it had a teeny, tiny hint of lead...the nerve. I got my summer's work glazed and THEN decided I better TEST the new ...

Leaf and Twig

Aug 5, 2009 6:44am

Last week Sharon Virtue and I took Christa's workshop at Sierra Nevada College. Man, what a great teacher she is. The challenge for me was how to learn her wonderful industrial forms, based on antique irons and machine parts and somehow translate them into my wonky, organic style. ...