I just noticed something

That this is the blog that is listed on my old business cards.

So I think I'll still check in here every once in a while.  Maybe there's someone looking for me.

I can't stand to just let someone miss me.

If they want to talk to me, I'll be here.

Barb Rogers

Goddesses I've made

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OK, since this site is so screwy on blogger, I have to post things backwards. When I created another blog later (maybe 6 months later), it was able post the pictures anywhere I'd like, and I can cut and paste text...basically do some editing. But not on this site...it has to be post the picture, write the test, then the next picture is posted above it, and so on. A real difficult way to make narrative.

So I'll not do narrative at all, just post all the goddesses, without comment. Perhaps number them as I upload them (3-4 at a time, slow slow work), just so I can come through and know which one is which.

Goddesses - Artemis, negative space?

A sangria pitcher which I enjoy a lot...not just in observing the form, but in mixing different tasting beverages!

A cornocopia represents abundance, a filling of a negative space with fruits and vegetables.

Just to give an example of an ancient goddess...here's Artemis, with a modern woman standing by to give a comparison of her size. I think of how men have breast fetishes in our culture...and whow, look at those! Somehow I don't think this would make a centerfold.

Tree goddess lantern

So glad to think that this goddess form is in a friend's home. And I've been thinking a lot about how the negative spaces in a simple form have two ways of being viewed, whether or not being lit by a candle.

I think it's time for me to have fun with the way slab work can be bent, attached, and carved. Again.

Foliage

This was sold last year, and I don't remember if it was to a friend, or just at one of the TailGate markets on Sat. morning.
That's coming up again soon. Our little co-op just met, and delegated who would be at the market which Saturdays during the summer.

Now this is my very own cauldron, which these days holds a huge purple shamrock. It is doing just fine here in the living room, with muted sunlight.

The purple foliage is such a good ground for the colors of the cauldron!

Early stages of my sculpture from a figure class last winter.

Here's the banner from Clay Club's blog.

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If you haven't been to that site, try it sometime. Lots of Western North Carolina pottery news. http://ncclayclub.blogspot.com/


I've sent John Britt the invitation to go out to members (???) of Clay Club for this month's meeting next week at BMCA (Black Mountain Center for the Arts, Clay Studio)



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Clay Club at Clay Studio of BMCA



All potters, clay addicts, and others (artists, students, good cooks etc) are welcome to the Pot Luck meet of the Clay Club, Wed, May 11 at the Clay Studio of The Black Mountain Center for the Arts.

Meet at 6:30 for food & demos by Annie Singletary, John Britt, and ??? (if you've got a technique to share, plese speak up).

Where is it?
The Clay Studio is located downhill and behind the Black Mountain Center for the Arts, in a small separate building.

Off I-40, go north from exit 64 towards downtown Black Mountain. At State Street (3rd traffic light) take a left. Within 2 blocks, the Center for the Arts will be on your left, (just after the Dripolator Coffee Shop and just before the Thai Basil Restaurant.) To park behind the Center for the Arts, take the next left at that traffic light (steep hill down) and the left at the first driveway into a parking area. If it is full, there's another parking area below it, as you continue down the hill.

More information available from Black Mountain Center for the Arts at (828) 669-0930, or Barbara Rogers, here.

I'm really psyched about getting some groups of potters together...what fun we may have!



4 elements vase

A bit of a bald eagle soaring through air...

Some crystals to remind us of earth...

And of course a mountain waterfall for the element of water...

Spring reminds me of my 4 elements pot...showing here the firey side...

I have to hang my humming bird feeder soon. Here's my mask of a hummer...greatly dressed up in irridescent black. Oh you know, in case you want a masked ball of hummingbirds!

The Lyre player...which isn't for sale. The simplicity of her listening ...

Happy Beltaine!

A quick peak at my trio of trees, tres amigas, or our threesome friendship into goddesses.
My friends and I stand amusing ourselves, as ceramic tree goddesses, much as surprised to be here in this form as many of the other occasions we've shared.

Being our authentic selves, we have moved throughout the lives that have extended past our adolescent selves, parenting, partnering, and often exploring whatever was happening around us.

So today I celebrate having such good life long friends. Hail!

vase glazes

A small kind of kinky shape with celadon and Matt bronze green glazes...kind of over-laid together.

Another view of the kinky pot.

I really like the flowing things the celadon made happen...

A small vase with carved fluting.

One sweet goddess stamped into small vase with flutings.

Back view of fluted small vase.

First vase with negative space. I'm about to start a series of different shapes.

These were cherry blossoms which have just started to bloom on the tree outside my studio.

Glaze is amber over matt bronze green...sponged on.

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

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

Tree Goddess Queen detail

Tree Goddess Queen, Red clay with Eggshell and Mayco Stroke n' Coat glazes, rubbed

Tree Goddess Queen