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| Randy, Ken, Cricket, Tomo, Takuro, and a large bowl I made in 2002 |
We had a clay workshop on Saturday morning at
STARworks Ceramics, then came back home, packed clothes, pots and kids into the car, and left for Farmville, VA. We arrived at Randy Edmonson, a professor of Longwood University, Art Dept., also Wood firing potter, and stayed their house for a night. His wife, Cricket cooked pasta and salad for dinner and it was so good especially after long drive (4 hours). Randy, Cricket, John Jessiman (the director of Cub Creek Foundation for the Ceramic Arts), Takuro, Ken, Tomo and me had dinner together and had great time as if we had family reunion.
Randy also joins the coming Cub Creek show at Coe College, Iowa, and we packed our work in cardboard boxes, and John will take works to Iowa by car next week.
Randy and Cricket will have their Anagama firing in November.Their Anagama is so beautiful and well-organized. We hope we can help their firing.
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| Randy and their Anagama |
On Sunday, after leaving Randy and Cricket's house, we stopped by Cub Creek studio in Appomattox and saw new residency artists who just started their program. Cub Creek Foundation for the Ceramic Arts started residency artist program in Fall 2002, and Takuro and I were the first year residency artists after Massachusetts. It's the middle of nowhere (sorry, John), and we didn't have a car, so our 6 months at Cub Creek was like really really concentration for making work work and work. As a result, it led us to now and we are still making pots with wood firing.
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Cub Creek Residency studio
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| residency studio and new residency artists |
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| kiln and kiln shed |
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| Anagama and Two chambers wood kiln |
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| John and Ken, 2008 |
If anyone who wants to experience of wonderful clay life, Cub Creek is the place. They have wood kiln, large size studio space, comfortable residency house (there was no residency house when we were there), nice natural clay behind the studio, interesting workshops, potters, clay artists, and of course John Jessiman who is one of the great clay educator in US.
If you need residency program info, go to:
Farmville and Appomattox are like our home town and always makes us feel warm and a little bit sentimental when we go. Our home town in Japan is too far away and 5 and a half years no see. HAHAHA
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