Goddess in Clay: sculpture and Goddesses

A serpentine dish for candles or silk flowers.

Glazes are Mexico around base, and Mayco Stroke n' Coat colors.

Moon Dancer Number Two, from the back, with Mayco Stroke n' Coat glazes and clear glaze over Desert Buff stoneware

Front view of Moon Dancer Number Two.
The Black Mountain Center for the Arts Clay Studio has been my home almost daily. Thanks to all the studio assistants and A.J. Reisman for mixing glazes and firing my works. You're the greatest!

Moon Dancer Number One. Mayco Stroke n' Coat and clear glaze over stoneware.

Next weekend the BMCA Studio will have a display of students and community members (like me) to help raise funds to provide for our equipment.

Mama Wilendorf plant bowl, with Matt Bronze Green and clear glaze on stoneware.

I'm also part of a new little co-op, Black Mountain Mud Buddies, which Marcia has organized. I like that I only have to work the booth one Saturday a month. The sales will be at the Tailgate Market every Sat, 9-12, and will mainly be small items. We can all have some of our wares each week, and the person who's actually there will have the most.

Red Clay Tree Goddess Number One, with red iron oxide and Eggshell glaze. I have made some new friends with the UU women who have taken part in the Rise Up and Call Her Name class over the last 13 weeks. It was focused upon a "woman honoring journey" with goddesses of non-Western European areas of the world. But we discovered that there are more goddesses that we still want to learn about. So we're going to continue meeting monthly to share leadership of a woman's group.

Red Clay Goddess Number One from the back.

Red Clay Goddess Number One from the side. We have also started meeting in each other's homes for shared meals, which we enjoy while laughing and getting to know each other better.

Side view of Titmouse tree goddess, white earthenware clay. This is a birthday present for a friend of mine who's going through chemo treatment these days for breast cancer. Love to you, dear one! I'll be packing the Tufted Titmouse to send you in a few days.

Front of Titmouse Tree Goddess

Detail of Tufted Titmouse and her nest with face of Tree Goddess

Most of my tree goddesses have breasts of some kind or another. But the Titmouse is sitting with her nest where a goddess might have had breasts removed. I thought a Titmouse was an appropriate Tit replacement!

Back View of Dervish Tree Goddess, white earthenware clay Linda saw that this goddess has a crown and robe like the whirling dervishes. I enjoy that she's pink.

Front view Dervish Tree Goddess

Detail of roots of Dervish Tree Goddess

Banded bottle, Little Loafers clay, Matt Bronze Green, Amber, and Mexico glazes

Ryanne, Pregnant Tree Goddess, Red clay with Eggshell glaze, rubbed.

Detail, Pregnant Tree Goddess

Tree Amigas...Raku clay with pastel Mayco Stroke n' Coat glazes Or maybe this should be The Three Tree Goddesses. My two other internet buddies will recognize that this is a model of our sisterhood. We three were in high school together waaaay back when in St. Louis, MO.

Tree Amigas