Richard Aerni on wed 3 may 06
You know, guys, too much griping and we're going to give potters a bad name!
Reading your posts, and Ellen Curran's, is reassuring in a way, in that
potters whose work I respect and love feel the same way I do at times.
I'm in the midst of a big push right now, but a fragmented push. Spent all
of the past weekdays teaching in my studio to out-of-town workshop students
(more about this new plan later, when I get a few moments), while still
making my own work and glazing and firing a kiln, then off to Worcester
Massachusetts for a pottery invitational show, where I sold, schmoozed,
demo-ed and critiqued students work (very busy, very invigorating, and very
tiring), back home to Rochester, where today I leave for Syracuse for a
three day artist-in-residence program, basically teaching students who will
cycle past me in 40 minute segments (wow! how do you teachers do it?), and
then back to the studio where I've got three shows per month lined up for
the summer, and wholesale orders to fill.
It makes me tired to think of it, but I'll do it, and the good news is that
enough work is selling to keep me going through yet another year. I think
I've heard you say it before Tony, "If it were easy, there'd be more people
doing it."
Take care all, and I'll post more when I've got a bit more time and sleep.
Richard Aerni
Rochester, NY
On Tue, 2 May 2006 20:41:45 -0400, clennell wrote:
>Sour Cherry Pottery
>
>>
>> I'm in the same situation, Tony. Making videos, designing ads to
>> sell them, playin' music with The Extrudinaires, and doing
>> stuff like NCECA and Potters Council has seriously cut into my
>> studio time.
>> I will finally have a load to fire at the end of the week.
>> It's back to basics time.
>>
>> Getting my condiments ready for a Sink-o de Mayo celebratory
>> firing on Friday.
>> David Hendley
>> Maydelle, Texas
>> david@farmpots.com
>> www.farmpots.com
>
>David: i don't know when I last sat down for a week's worth of no nonsense
>pottery work. It's been weeks since i threw anything, but I've been as busy
>as a ten peckered billgoat. I dunno man, if ya don't learn to throw fast you
>could be in some serious do-do in this business. So much to do, so little
>time.
>Bon feu, mon ami!
>Tony
>Tony and Sheila Clennell
>
catjarosz on wed 3 may 06
Ahhh she says with arthritis patches wrapped around her thumb/palms..
The boys are not the only ones burning candles on both ends.
3 back to back gas kiln loads, wholesale and the first showof the yr to
do this weekend in SANFORD NC.... I believe the web site is
www.sanfordpottery.com and directions to it are there...
I also had my first paying gig workshop last month with my best bud
Sarah Rolland and a potential one for Midland Crafters lined up.
Yep I agree No whimps should apply for this job.... Yet there is
something that keeps US going and going and going that has nothing to do
with being a work aholic. RIght now I am too tired to express what it is
have to go waste time at hair do palace and get my hair fixed from
the mess that she made of it last week... so much to do so little time...
good news... we will be going 1st shift in a few weeks so getting up at
the crack of 11 am will change... Instead of going to bed at 330am -430
am it will be getting up at 4 am and going to bed ???? I forget when most
folks hit the sack.. Will be out of the vampire crew and rejoining a
more normal shift.... we are excited.. think it wont be as isolating as
the shift we work now when you miss half the day sleeping.
Well I am inviting anyone that lives close enough to attend the Sanford
Pottery Festival to visit me in the civic center building .. My booth number
is CC 28. I had no time to take pictures of any new work :o( even with
the cube... just not enough time to do it all.. But I will take pictures at
the show right after set up.. I have got some of the best work I have
ever done to date.. God willing and with my updated booth and
new(used) trailer and new transmission ( it blew up on the way to sanford
last yr ) I will have a outstanding booth... and maybe I will look
presentable too.. new hair doo and clean underwear will even
have some cherry chocolate hershey kisses to nibble on.
Gotta sign off clay art for the duration. I dont post much these days but
I am here.
Hang in there all you busy full timers... Its soo worth the labor
intensive-ness. Only draw back is the lonelies at times.. Clay is a hard
mistress to tame...
Cat Jarosz and her side kick Airedale Curly from the Mnts of North Carolina
USA still enjoying the bloom of spring though the PEEK has passed a bit
ago... Its incredibly beautiful here.. Maybe the nicest place in the world
is NC Mnts in the SPRING..
www.catjarosz.com
www.guildcrafts.com/cat/
V)''(V woof & >^..^< mew
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