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updated thu 5 jan 12

 

Ann Testa on wed 7 mar 07


I starting reading Clayart before I moved back to California at the end of
1994. My studio partner in Maryland got me interested in it & ironically she
hasn't read it for years. In the course of the move I stopped Clayart only
to have it mysteriously reappear on Halloween 1995. I've been here ever since
. . . . I sometimes wonder why certain people whose emails I have enjoyed
disappear. I don't post often, but I do enjoy the dialogue.

Ann Testa
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Ric Swenson on wed 7 mar 07


first posted in 1995....I think...when at Bennington College...all MAC syst=
ems....very different from Dos systems I was used to at Bennington Potters.=
Internet was a new thing then.........
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> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 17:51:22 -0800> From: revivalsteph@YAHOO.COM> Subje=
ct: Re: CLayart history> To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG> > i think i first po=
sted in 1997 , who knows what my> email was at that time..posted from monta=
na.> i had just bought my first computer and remember the> text printout fr=
om compuserve, then found Lycos and> alta vista and of course AOL seemed li=
ke a cadillac...> and making one little line drawing on my computer> filled=
up a whole floppy disc....and i had a nice> friendly local little ISP that=
came to my house to> set me up and plug me in.> > I went to the Fort Worth=
NCECA. flew standbye and> shared a room with Marcia and Louana Lackey and =
i> can't remember the name of the 4th person....> i remember marcia told me=
all about the clayart room.> so i went there and there were 2 people in th=
e room.> One was an outgoing broad faced man with whitish hair> and wearing=
a suit. i didn't know him and he didn't> know me . he was talking to the o=
ther person , who I> think was Feriz Delkic.> he did however take time to g=
ive me a big hello and> say welcome to the clayart room and he gave me a bl=
ack> and green ITC pen.> > by the way. if you can believe it i still have t=
hat> pen and i still use it and it has NEVER gone dry...it> is so weird, es=
pecially as i lose pens all the time.> but i still have and use the ITC pen=
.> > well, hmmm, mel doesn't remember me from then but i do> remember him!>=
> anyway i was shy, if you can believe it, so i said> thanks for the pen a=
nd> bye . i didn't really know anyone else at all, except> Marcia, and Noel=
Osheroff from UO who gave a> presentation that year and probably i saw Geo=
rge Kokis> too, one of my teachers and Rudy Autio, who i sold art> supplies=
to at the UM bookstore where i worked at the> time> > .i think i went to e=
very session . went to see all of> the exhibits,went on the bus tour to the=
cotton mill> studios which was fun...> then left early AM to catch a stand=
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stephani stephenson on wed 7 mar 07


i think i first posted in 1997 , who knows what my
email was at that time..posted from montana.
i had just bought my first computer and remember the
text printout from compuserve, then found Lycos and
alta vista and of course AOL seemed like a cadillac...
and making one little line drawing on my computer
filled up a whole floppy disc....and i had a nice
friendly local little ISP that came to my house to
set me up and plug me in.

I went to the Fort Worth NCECA. flew standbye and
shared a room with Marcia and Louana Lackey and i
can't remember the name of the 4th person....
i remember marcia told me all about the clayart room.
so i went there and there were 2 people in the room.
One was an outgoing broad faced man with whitish hair
and wearing a suit. i didn't know him and he didn't
know me . he was talking to the other person , who I
think was Feriz Delkic.
he did however take time to give me a big hello and
say welcome to the clayart room and he gave me a black
and green ITC pen.

by the way. if you can believe it i still have that
pen and i still use it and it has NEVER gone dry...it
is so weird, especially as i lose pens all the time.
but i still have and use the ITC pen.

well, hmmm, mel doesn't remember me from then but i do
remember him!

anyway i was shy, if you can believe it, so i said
thanks for the pen and
bye . i didn't really know anyone else at all, except
Marcia, and Noel Osheroff from UO who gave a
presentation that year and probably i saw George Kokis
too, one of my teachers and Rudy Autio, who i sold art
supplies to at the UM bookstore where i worked at the
time

.i think i went to every session . went to see all of
the exhibits,went on the bus tour to the cotton mill
studios which was fun...
then left early AM to catch a standby flight back to
Montana.

Stephani Stephenson





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June Perry on thu 8 mar 07


I checked the link Lee posted and the earliest clayart message from me was
February 1996.
It was fun to see some of the early posters.

Regards,
June
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Paul Lewing on fri 9 mar 07


On Mar 9, 2007, at 3:00 PM, Sherry Wells wrote:
I can relate to what Mel said about walking around NCECA and not
knowing anyone, yet knowing there are a lot of folks from clayart there.

I can too. I've been on Clayart since before we could all meet in
one room for breakfast. I had been going to NCECA for years before
that and, like Mel, was frustrated knowing there were other studio
artists like me wandering around, but having no way to connect with
them, except when NCECA would happen to have a discussion group for
us (which wasn't often).
My wife got me a modem one year for Christmas, specifically so I
could join Clayart, and wouldn't have to have friends post questions
for me any more. After about a week, I was telling her how much I
loved Clayart, and she said, "Of course you do- it's NCECA every
day". That was such a perfect description of it that for years after
that, Joe Molinaro used that to describe Clayart. It's true- all the
joy, excitement, frustration, and nonsense that is concentrated into
a few days at NCECA happen all year long here.
I must say that Clayart and NCECA have been very good for each
other. Clayart has probably done more to increase buzz and
attendance for NCECA than anything else in the last 10 years. And
that contact with the academic point of view has broadened the
horizons of a lot of people on Clayart. And nothing has made NCECA
more fun and more rewarding, and contributed more to the feeling that
potters are one big family, than the Clayart room at NCECA. We, and
NCECA, owe Mel a huge thanks for making than happen in the first
place. And we owe a huge thanks to ACerS and ITC (am I forgetting
anybody? if so, please jump in) for picking up the tab now.
See y'all soon in Louisville.
Paul Lewing
www.paullewingtile.com

Billie Mitchell on fri 9 mar 07


even though i am not a frequent poster i have been reading
clayart since aournd 1997 or 1998. i was one of those lurkers
who read but didnt dare to post in the beginnning. i have
found that the people on clayart step up and beyond to help
their fellow potters. they have alway rallied behind someone
who has trouble or is ill.. thats what has made clayart so wonderful
place to be. i have seen potters come and go on clayart but somehow
they always find a way to come back.. i have seen it in several of
the posts lately.
i remember after reading clayart for some time i was so excited
when someone asked for a glaze recipe.. i didnt have the
knowledge to contribute much and there was finally something
that i could add to the wonderful group.
when i first found it online i went all the way back to the beginning
and read every post that had been posted. that challenge took me
several weeks to do as that was back when they charged you for
how much time you spent online so my time was limited. i also
printed off alot of great knowledge from alot of great potters.
i still have that notebook stuck in a book shelf. i guess i need to
go back and read who all was writing into clayart at the time..
who gave the wonderful glaze recipes and how to's and help.

see you all at nceca!
billie mitchell



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Sherry Wells on fri 9 mar 07


When I first joined Clayart when I when back to college in 1997 and had
computer access thru them. I when to school on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I
joined up on Thursday and when I went to school on Tuesday I could not
access my email due to the amount of posts I had, it clogged up the college
system and they had to delete my account so I could access it again. I
don't post much to the list, but do send comments off-list and read on a
regular basis. I have learned much over the last 10 years! Talk to me at
NCECA, I can relate to what Mel said about walking around NCECA and not
knowing anyone, yet knowing there are a lot of folks from clayart there.
Trying to be more brave and approach folks.
Sherry Wells
Free Flight Pottery
NW Montana

Bacia Edelman on sun 11 mar 07


Hi, all: Which year was the Rochester NCECA? Short of writing a post to
Richard
Burkett for the date it started, the yr. before Rochester, we assembled for
breakfast.
Suzanne Wolfe and I talked about getting to know some of the others on the
new list.
I got the hotel restaurant to give us some long tables at the back and
there were about
20 of us. I have snapshots somewhere of the group around the tables.
At that same NCECA, I believe, Joe Molinaro and Richard had a room for us
to learn
"etiquette" for the list. They gave us handouts. I only remember: Using
capital letters
was like SHOUTING and not advisable.
The next yr. Paula Sibrack Marion arranged a room for a Clayart breakfast;
that is where I met Russel to
whom I had written once or twice. Who is Russel Fouts, I asked, looking
around the table. He rushed over and
hugged me and we have been strong friends ever since.

Getting a Clayart room and then a suite from our benefactors is thanks to
mel who took over
the list when Joe and his wife, Mary, became overwhelmed and Joe was going
to South
America again for the summer. And thanks to Joyce and all the others who
sub for mel.

I read the list when I can and ignore it when pressures are great. It has
been my community to
a great extent. It has helped me through deaths, that of my husband and
then Ababi's,
about whom several of us corresponded trying to get a website of his work
and writings
in his memory. Oddly, I had visited him in Israel the April before he died
and
noticed that his hands were shaking badly and wondered how he could have worked
in clay. He didn't any more, I realized later.
Clayart helped me when I busted my kneecap
and I learned how to use the hospital computer and found posts even from
Alisa in
Denmark. A best memory of that: Russel phoned the hospital long distance
just as
my surgeon was walking in for a checkup. I said: Sorry, I have an
international call
and could you please return later? He didn't, but I think he was impressed.
I could list so many other memorable stories but had better look in on my
chores and
packing for the trip to Louisville and looking forward to seeing roommate
marta (!!!) and
so many other good friends and meeting some of you newbies!

Bacia


Bacia Edelman
Madison, Wisconsin
http://users.skynet.be/russel.fouts/bacia.htm
http://www.silverhawk.com/artisan/clay/edelman/index.html

Darlene Yarnetsky-Mudcat Pottery on mon 12 mar 07


The memory wheels are churning, but slowly. I remember Abibi's
posts, an endless discussion on terra sig (and being disappointed to
learn it was only used on low fired pots - I was such a newbie :) )
indecipherable glaze discussions, lee in a pig's eye - (didn't
realize that was the same you - lee love!) and Richard Burkett who I
finally got the hyperglaze program from - and who has always
patiently answered my questions. There were always recipes with
tantalizing names as well, more than I ever had time to test. Clayart
amazed me from day one.

When my husband first got on the internet he used a free service that
was dial-up and text only. I was amazed at the hours he would spend
just reading all that text! Could not imagine the fascination. No
one we knew had email then, and it was before ebay was a household
word. Our computer was small, black and white, immobile and SLOW!

But then Jerry talked about finding a clay group and signed me up. I
was clueless what he was talking about, but was soon fascinated by
the endless discussions, though too shy to comment or ask a question
for eons. I think we finally jumped in to ask about whether or not
to have a studio cat despite our allergies. Anyone remember that?
Some great stories followed on studio companions!

Over the years, I have learned much from fellow clayarters, and have
participated on and off as time (and access to the computer (husband
just finished grad school) permits. I try to tell as many potters I
meet as I can, as clayart is a wonderful community.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane everyone! Wish I could recall
more....

mel jacobson on fri 21 jan 11


when i took over clayart, i called myself the `mayor` of a small town.
you know...a town where there are many nice folks that get along,
a few folks that cause trouble, and some very silly, sit on the fence
goofy folks that need jail time from time to time. we also have some
abusive folks, a few alcoholics and drug dealers. they tend to show
up like a bride dressed in black and pink with the back of her dress
tucked in her panyhose.

the mayor oversees this sort of a town...sometimes we need a sheriff.
sometimes we need the boys in the `white coats`.
but, most of the time, life goes on without much fuss.

it is sort of like going `downtown` to have coffee in the morning.
we say the same things, talk about the same things day after day...
but, that is the way it works. we like consistency. like small town
conversations, we like to know what is going on even if we have
heard it before.

on any given day we estimate that about 10,000 people may
read posts on clayart.
selected things to read.
we have about 2500 each day that get the posts, but many go
to colleges, art centers and get spread around. in fact, they spread
very widely.

yahoo mirrors clayart, and that spreads it even farther.
if you `google` most any subject in ceramics you will find a clayart post.

i went to the website of a famous gas burner company, and there
was the information i was trying to validate, with a post from me.
yes, they used my post about gas burners to explain what they make.
made me shake my head. i don't know if that was good or bad.
i guess it was totally correct. so, i validated myself. with myself.

also, clayart life is like a parade. we have floats, cars, people waving,
and some famous people of the day. but, the guts of clayart are the folks
sitting on the curb watching. a parade is not valid without the audience.

how we educate the audience is what makes clayart great. we may get
four or five answers, but the average is almost always correct.
and, when a stupid answer, that is totally wrong gets posted...we
find the correct answer fast...corrections are golden.
(remember, `where did you get your degree in engineering? you stupid
git.`) it does happen from time to time.
best to all that have hung in...for many years...
mel








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website: http://www.visi.com/~melpots/
clayart link: http://www.visi.com/~melpots/clayart.html
new book: http://www.21stcenturykilns.com
alternate: melpots7575@gmail.com

Lee on sun 1 jan 12


On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Steve Mills
wrote:

> About 1990 (give or take a year or two) we purchased our first computer
> with a modem. It was loaded with Windows 3.1 and boasted a 40 MEGABYTE Ha=
=3D
rd
> drive.....WOW! Cost the business =3DA31000 !!!! Then!!
> We joined The List shortly after that.
>
> My have times changed. Like Mel said; this IPod Touch has way more muscle
> than that first beast, and cost pennies in comparison.


I bought my first modem in 1984. Used it on a Commodore 64, 64K at
300baud. ( My iPod is 33,554,432kb or 524,288 times larger! ) No HD, only
a very meger floppy drive that save a whole whopping 170K!

1Mb =3D3D 1,024kb 1 gb =3D3D 1,048,576kb


My iPod touch has me away from the desktop. I use it for
email, Facebook, the web and as a HDR camera about 95% of the time. I
listen to the radio or music on it only about 5% of the time.

I'll eventually get an iPad. All computers will go touch
screen, eventually.

> --

Lee Love in Minneapolis
http://mingeisota.blogspot.com/

"Ta tIr na n-=3DF3g ar chul an tI=3D97tIr dlainn trina ch=3DE9ile"=3D97tha=
t is, "T=3D
he land
of eternal youth is behind the house, a beautiful land fluent within
itself." -- John O'Donohue

mel jacobson on sun 1 jan 12


i had just gotten windows 95 when i started clayart.
dial up/under a hundred mps. 256 seemed like a race horse.
it was a new ibm aptiva, but it did not have the
new 95 on it. win95 was really amazing at the time.
i can remember the first picture that i received.
floppies ruled.
and the first search engine i had was `altavista`.
when i learned to high lite, copy and paste i thought i was
in computer heaven.

now my new hand held iphone is 100 times as powerful
and does a thousand more tricks.
mel
i helped an old gal (91) with her old hp
computer with dial up the other week. she just does
email. slow email. but, the damn thing still runs.
she turns it on once a week for about half an hour.
i had to call her isp and have some big files dumped.
spam.
from: minnetonka, mn
website: http://www.visi.com/~melpots/
clayart link: http://www.visi.com/~melpots/clayart.html

Steve Mills on sun 1 jan 12


About 1990 (give or take a year or two) we purchased our first computer wit=
h=3D
a modem. It was loaded with Windows 3.1 and boasted a 40 MEGABYTE Hard dri=
v=3D
e.....WOW! Cost the business =3DC2=3DA31000 !!!! Then!!
We joined The List shortly after that.=3D20

My have times changed. Like Mel said; this IPod Touch has way more muscle t=
h=3D
an that first beast, and cost pennies in comparison.=3D20

Hey Ho!

Steve M


Steve Mills
Bath
UK
Sent from my iPod

On 1 Jan 2012, at 16:56, mel jacobson wrote:

> i had just gotten windows 95 when i started clayart.
> dial up/under a hundred mps. 256 seemed like a race horse.
> it was a new ibm aptiva, but it did not have the
> new 95 on it. win95 was really amazing at the time.
> i can remember the first picture that i received.
> floppies ruled.
> and the first search engine i had was `altavista`.
> when i learned to high lite, copy and paste i thought i was
> in computer heaven.
>=3D20
> now my new hand held iphone is 100 times as powerful
> and does a thousand more tricks.
> mel
> i helped an old gal (91) with her old hp
> computer with dial up the other week. she just does
> email. slow email. but, the damn thing still runs.
> she turns it on once a week for about half an hour.
> i had to call her isp and have some big files dumped.
> spam.
> from: minnetonka, mn
> website: http://www.visi.com/~melpots/
> clayart link: http://www.visi.com/~melpots/clayart.html

Paul Lewing on sun 1 jan 12


I don't remember when I joined Clayart, but I do remember that being
able to get Clayart was one of the main reasons I first got Internet
access. After I'd been on Clayart for a month or so, I was telling my
wife how much I liked it. She said, "Of course you love it- it's
NCECA every day!". I've never heard a better description and it
continues to be one of the things I love about it. It's been a huge
benefit to me and it's hard to remember the clay community without
it. Thanks forever to Joe, Richard, Mel, Joyce and everyone else
who's made it what it is.

Paul Lewing
www.paullewingtile.com
www.paullewingart.com

VeenaRaghavan@CS.COM on mon 2 jan 12


I think it was 16 or seventeen years ago that I went on to the internet,
because my daughter and son-in-law were off to Indonesia for a few years, a=
nd
my son-in-law put me on email, so I could keep in touch with them. I
discovered Clayart at about the same time, that was when Joe and Richard we=
re in
charge of Clayart. It opened a whole new world for me, and for that I will
always be grateful.

It seems like a lifetime, now, and it has been wonderful. People have come
and gone, but some have stayed. It is wonderful that they have.

I won't even try to name all the wonderful people I have "met" through this
list.

Once again, Happy New Year to all, and I look forward to another year with
all of you.

Veena

In a message dated 1/1/2012 10:33:04 PM Eastern Standard Time,
pjlewing@COMCAST.NET writes:
>
>
> I don't remember when I joined Clayart, but I do remember that being
> able to get Clayart was one of the main reasons I first got Internet
> access. After I'd been on Clayart for a month or so, I was telling my
> wife how much I liked it. She said, "Of course you love it- it's
> NCECA every day!". I've never heard a better description and it
> continues to be one of the things I love about it. It's been a huge
> benefit to me and it's hard to remember the clay community without
> it. Thanks forever to Joe, Richard, Mel, Joyce and everyone else
> who's made it what it is.

VeenaRaghavan@cs.com

Vince Pitelka on mon 2 jan 12


I was hired at TTU in 1994 and moved to Tennessee. I didn't know anyone,
and that didn't really matter since I was so involved in my job, but a
friend told me about Clayart and I joined late in fall semester of 1994 and
was immediately in the midst of a group of people who have remained dear to
me for the intervening 17 years.

If I were to name the major events that have changed my life very
significantly and positively it would be:
Seeing Doc Watson at the Berkeley Folk Festival in 1963.
Meeting my wife in 1968 (we've been married for 41 years).
Being driven from sculpture/foundry by a bad teacher in 1970 and deciding t=
o
focus on clay.
Setting up Railroad Stoneware in Blue Lake, CA in 1974.
Moving across the country for grad school in 1985.
Getting hired at TTU's Appalachian Center for Craft in 1994.
Joining Clayart in 1994.

I could not even begin to summarize all this discussion list has meant to
me, other than to say thank-you for all the ways it has enriched my life an=
d
taught me so much about clay, people, and life.
- Vince

Vince Pitelka
Appalachian Center for Craft
Tennessee Tech University
vpitelka@dtccom.net
http://iweb.tntech.edu/wpitelka/

Eleanora Eden on mon 2 jan 12


I know I have printouts of all of clayart in big binders somewhere from the
early '90s. There were about 500 people on the list. Jonathan Kaplan and
Richard Aerni were very encouraging to me when I first went on and it was
a real new world. We had a Vic 20, I think it was, and Fred had figured ou=
t
how to connect to world.com in Boston without phone fees.

I had no intention of ever touching a computer, that was my husband's baliw=
ick.
He was big on finding ways to get people interested in the internet. He fo=
und
clayart for me and started printing out the day's discussion and placing it
squarely on my dinner plate. It wasn't long before I was insisting on lear=
ning
how to do it myself.

I remember in grad school actually talking about how wonderful it would be
if potters everywhere could really be a community. That was 1980. If I ha=
d
only known it would be only a few more years!

How it has compressed the time it takes to learn. What a miracle. I am no=
t on
all that much these days but I always feel like I am really a part of
the clayart
community.

Best to all for an exciting new year, full of progress and
fascinating discoveries.

Eleanora





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Bellows Falls Vermont
www.eleanoraeden.com

Vince Pitelka on mon 2 jan 12


This topic made me think of some of our dear Clayart friends who were here
from the early years but have passed on. I thought of Rick Sherman, Bacia
Edelman, Kurt Wild, and Tom Buck. Who am I forgetting?
- Vince

Vince Pitelka
Appalachian Center for Craft
Tennessee Tech University
vpitelka@dtccom.net
http://iweb.tntech.edu/wpitelka/

May Luk on mon 2 jan 12


I would like to add David Hewitt, who gave sensible and thoughtful
glaze information

http://www.studiopottery.co.uk/profile/David/Hewitt_%281925_-_2006%29

May

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Vince Pitelka wrote:
> This topic made me think of some of our dear Clayart friends who were her=
=3D
e
> from the early years but have passed on. I thought of Rick Sherman, Bacia
> Edelman, Kurt Wild, and Tom Buck. =3DA0Who am I forgetting?
> - Vince
>



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logan johnson on mon 2 jan 12



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William & Susan Schran User on mon 2 jan 12


On 1/2/12 6:52 PM, "Vince Pitelka" wrote:

> This topic made me think of some of our dear Clayart friends who were her=
e
> from the early years but have passed on. I thought of Rick Sherman, Bacia
> Edelman, Kurt Wild, and Tom Buck. Who am I forgetting?
> - Vince

Artie! How the heck could you forget him?
Drove us all nuts, but what the hell....

Bill

--
William "Bill" Schran
wschran@cox.net
wschran@nvcc.edu
http://www.creativecreekartisans.com

Edouard Bastarache on mon 2 jan 12


Artie and the snakes !!!

Gis,

Edouard Bastarache
Spertesperantisto

Sorel-Tracy
Quebec

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----- Original Message -----
From: "William & Susan Schran User"
To:
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 10:28 PM
Subject: Re: clayart history


> On 1/2/12 6:52 PM, "Vince Pitelka" wrote:
>
>> This topic made me think of some of our dear Clayart friends who were
>> here
>> from the early years but have passed on. I thought of Rick Sherman, Baci=
a
>> Edelman, Kurt Wild, and Tom Buck. Who am I forgetting?
>> - Vince
>
> Artie! How the heck could you forget him?
> Drove us all nuts, but what the hell....
>
> Bill
>
> --
> William "Bill" Schran
> wschran@cox.net
> wschran@nvcc.edu
> http://www.creativecreekartisans.com
>

VeenaRaghavan@CS.COM on mon 2 jan 12


Peggy Heer

VeenaRaghavan@cs.com

Patti Petit on tue 3 jan 12


Abibi the glaze addict in Isreal. His gentle presence still comforts me and=
I am anything but a glaze addict. Bacia offered me comfort when my husban=
d died. Clayart is the teepee- longhouse where I meet my tribe. Peace to al=
l.
Patti
http://www.runningrabbitpottery.com

Sharon Wetherby on tue 3 jan 12


These departed Clayart friends, as well as all who are still with us on the
sunny side of the grass, have been an inspiration to me. Best regards for
2012 to all; may sunshine and happiness follow you all the days of your
lives.

Sharon Wetherby
Fort Worth, TX

Steve Mills on tue 3 jan 12


On 2 Jan 2012, at 23:52, Vince Pitelka wrote:

> This topic made me think of some of our dear Clayart friends who were her=
e
> from the early years but have passed on. I thought of Rick Sherman, Bacia
> Edelman, Kurt Wild, and Tom Buck. Who am I forgetting?
> - Vince
>
>
At times like this I always think of Peggy Heer.
We corresponded irregularly off list, but I always enjoyed our discussions.

My first NCECA was San Diego in 03, and as always my Kate came with me.
That was when she in particular realised what a real "Family" The List is

Steve M


Steve Mills
Bath
UK
Sent from my iPod

Snail Scott on wed 4 jan 12


I miss the Artimator's posts. He'd stir up a tempest in
teapot every time, and not just to watch the storm.
When he really cared about the topic, it showed.
We need our gadflies. They keep us from getting
too settled.

-Snail