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Clayworks Stack'n Stoneware Donation
In a collaborative effort potters from the Clayworks Pottery Guild donated pieces to build a pottery pole to benefit Nolan LaRue Ikenberry Peterson. This unique sculpture features the talent of many local artists. It will look wonderful displayed inside any home. Each piece carries with it the hope that Nolan will have a long and wonderful life.
The Clayworks Pottery Guild was started over thirty years ago by three women who scheduled get-togethers to discuss issues that were important to them as potters and to support each other while trying to develop careers in clay. Today, our members include nationally known potters, teachers, students, professionals and beginners in functional, non-functional, sculptural and architectural ceramics. We hold monthly meetings and sales events to educate, encourage and inspire members of all skill levels. Participating artists are listed below, starting at the base of the pole.
Sylvia Harrison
Earthen Vessels
I wanted the base to not only be strong, but look strong too! I used black glaze because black is the strongest tint. The leaf pattern makes me think of ever changing growth. We pray Nolan will grow and be strong.
Lois Sharpe
Sharpe Pots
The spacers represent rest. In the business of life, remember to stop and enjoy the quiet times.
- Unglazed custom made clay
Deborah Harris
Deborah Harris Pottery
- Wheel thrown, altered/squared orb with carbon-trap shino and copper decoration, reduction fired
Russell E. Knop
Creative Glass and Clay
Life is like clay in that it is what you make of it. It may have values unlike yours and we need to listen to be one with it.
- Raku fired with stained glass and glaze
Molly Pasca
Pasca Pottery
I love zebras and the clean contrast of black and white. In this case, I used brown clay instead of my usual white porcelain.
- Black stain applied with a hand-made deer-tail brush on Red Rock clay
Kira Dirlik
It was wonderful breaking out of my usual picky/picky/picky majolica earthenware mode, and letting a free, natural sculptural form take over with totally unpredictable results from the kiln.
- Wood and salt fired in the old restored wood kiln in Carbonton, NC
Tina Granville
Stained Glass and Pottery
Since the pieces were referred to as 'beads' and would be used to help with baby Nolan, I was reminded of my daughter's plastic beads that she loved as a little girl. With wooden paddles, I shaped my non-descript form into a hex-shaped large bead.
- Zella stoneware fired to cone 6 glazed with matte purple, detailed with iron oxide
Joyce Newton
bjpotters
The flowers on my bead celebrate spring.
- Hand painted underglaze decoration on porcelain with clear glaze
Carol McDevitt
Leaping Grasshopper Pottery
As a new potter, I find it inspiring to enter into the pottery community with this very special project.
- Laguna B-Mix with Gunmetal Glaze fired to cone 5
Pam Epperson
PowderMill Pottery
I created a male spirit face in honor of Nolan LaRue.
- Cone 6, little loafers underglazes and weathered bronze finish
Bill Newton
bjpotters
My wish is for Nolan to grow strong and tall like our totem.
- White stoneware fired to cone 6 oxidation, glazed in green dragon mat with woodashe and stained glass.
Heather Delisle
Earth Water & Fire Studio
My ceramic sculptures resonate with the repetition and modularity characteristic of the modern world, yet assert the dignity and individuality of nature. My ceramic spheres incorporate my interest in arranging modules to produce sculptures reflecting nature's repeated patterns.
- Sawdust fired earthenware
Ida Walters
I had a sense of this tiny baby traveling from the dark earth (birth) through the many green pastures of life and climbing mountains to reach his ultimate goal.
- Unglazed porcelain stained with red iron oxide and chrome oxide, single fired to cone 6 then waxed for a smooth finish
Cynthia Aldrich
Cynthia Aldrich Pottery
- Wheel thrown stoneware fired to cone 10
Ronni Theeman
The black and white represents the life's yin and yang.
- High fired porcelain
Wendy Panko
Swamp-Side Stoneware
The finial shape formed in my mind while I was thinking of a pottery class I took from Ronan. I enhanced the spiral to express my wish of an upward path for Nolan's progress.
- Red Rock clay, cone 5 oxidation