Status Report Empty Bowls 2014

I want to report on the status of Empty Bowls 2014.  Thanks to all members that have diligently volunteered and already put in time on the project. Here is information on what has been done and what needs to be done to make the event bigger and better than the last 12 years.

1.  The first bowl-a-thon netted about 400 bowls. They have been put in storage.  A second bowl-a-thon is scheduled for January 3-4 at Southwest School of Art (SSA).  Save the date and plan to join in. More info will follow. Please feel free to make bowls in your studio. The committee has set a goal of 2500 bowls again this year.
2. Dudley Harris’s bowls, donated last year and not used, have been cleaned and repacked by a committee headed by Melba Martinez.
3. The Silent Auction Committee headed by Leslie Newton gathered 46 donations at the Texas Clay Fest in Gruene. A box will be placed in the Ceramics studio of SSA when classes begin in January so you can drop off your donation or contact Leslie.
4. SAMMinistries is in the process of sending out donation letters to potential businesses.  As of November 27 there are 2 donations of soup already on the books.  The EB committee plans on a second meeting with SAMM in January.
5. Melba Martinez is chairperson of the Celebrity Bowls.  Glaze kits are being updated. SAMM is coordinating VIPs in the San Antonio area to glaze a special bowl.  If you know a celebrity that might glaze a bowl contact Melba.
6. Clay World has donated the clay for the bowls.

As in years past, volunteer help will be needed for Silent Auction, set up, and take down, etc.   A list of volunteer areas will be sent out in mid-January.

For your information:

Leslie Newton: leslienewton@att.net

Melba Martinez: melmtz0904@yahoo.com

John Nelson: nelsonpottery@sbcglobal.net

Dale Neese: dneese@satx.rr.com

Thank you SAPG

"Dudley Harris and Katosan working in Shigaraki Japan."

Call for Artists: San Antonio Clay Festival

We are pleased to announce our next Clay Festival will be on the grounds of San Antonio Museum of Art.
November 16th 10 a.m to 5 p.m. 200 West Jones Avenue, San Antonio, Texas 78215.
Registration form can be found at http://sanantoniopottersguild.com/pages/ClayFest.html

SA Clay Fest affords SAPG members and other Clay Artisans an opportunity to showcase and sell their work. Entry fees help to pay for venue costs, advertising, postcards, postage, and labels. Artists are encouraged to present their highest quality artwork, in a professional display.
Rules for Entry:
Clay Fest 2013 is open to SAPG members and other regional Clay Artists..

• If you are not a member of SAPG or a member of SAPG less than one year, you can apply with 2 or 3
  digital images of your work for jury by the Exhibitions Committee (see contact info below.)
  
• Display set up is the responsibility of the artist and must include a 10 x 10 tent that is in good
  repair and suitable for this venue. (with a preference for a white tent)
  
• Booths MUST be weighted down. Information packet to follow with guidelines.
• Items offered for sale must be HANDMADE by the show artist - no exceptions.
  
• In an effort to focus the show on celebrating the ceramic medium, artists no longer
  working in ceramic as their primary medium should either sell or display some of their ceramic
  works.
  
• No commercial items are to be sold.
  
• Space is limited.
  • The application must be postmarked by October 25, 2013 to qualify for a single booth, with a fee of $100 for SAPG members and $135 for non- members and a ½ booth fee of $50 for
    SAPG members and $85 for non-members. (non-member fees include a $35 membership fee)
• After November 1st there will be no refunds of entry fees.
• Please use one entry form per artist. All fees and forms MUST BE MAILED.
  
• Please fill out the form and mail with your check as follows: San Antonio Potters Guild

Mail application to: San Antonio Clay Festival 2013
C/o Virginia Bally, Festival Chairman
357 Ridge Point (mystics Shore)
Spring Branch, Texas 78070

Call for Artists:Handmade & Homegrown Show & sale

Handmade & Homegrown is an outdoor event for local artists and plant enthusiasts to display and sell their handmade and homegrown items.  All artwork must be handmade by the Exhibitor and all plants must be grown at the Exhibitor’s home. Non-profit organizations related to art or plants may also purchase a space to be manned by their members.  

Applications and images must be submitted no later than October 31, 2013. Applications may be hand delivered to: Lions Field, 2809 Broadway, San Antonio, Texas 78209 or sent via email: handmadehomegrownsa@gmail.com.  Notification of acceptance will be emailed to applicants on or before November 7, 2013.  

Application http://www.scribd.com/doc/168728009/Handmade-Homegrown-Exhibitor-Application-Master

Call for Artists: Hecho a Mano Boutique

The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center invites local, regional and national visual artists to join in the launching of our new Hecho a Mano Boutique. We also invite all artists working in all media to create one-of-a-kind, handmade wreaths for auction at ¡Ay Corona!, the annual Holiday Wreath exhibition and party, on Friday, November 22, 2013, 6-9 p.m. at the Guadalupe Theater.

Application deadline is Monday, September 30, 2013 by 5 p.m. CST. Selections will be made by October 15, and all work must be delivered to GCAC by Wednesday, November 4, 2013.

Deadline: September 30th, 5 p.m. CST

Submission Fee: $35

http://www.guadalupeculturalarts.org/category/hecho-a-mano/

Seeking a Table Top Wheel

Linda Manning is look for a table top wheel for demonstrations. Contact her 210-857-7033.

Kiln for Sale

PARAGON HIGH FIRE KILN (MODEL A82B)

EXCELLENT CONDITION/USED ONCE
 

Amps: 30, Volts: 120/240/3 Way, Chamber Depth: 22.25”, Chamber Width: 17.50”.

Sale Price $600. Firm.

Contact Paul Wilson

Paul Wilson Studio

210-471-9183

pwilson@cibolocreek.com

Don Olsen will be teaching Ikebana at SAMA

Tuesday, October 15, 2013
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Hops House
Price: $25 for members, $35 for non-members Register: (210) 978-8121
Read more at http://www.samuseum.org/calendar/event-detail?eid=3881

Ceramic Supplies For Sale

Northstar slab roller with table, 30" roller. top of the line model, excellent condition. $700.  Skutt 1027-240 48 amp electric kiln with kiln sitter. Shelves and kiln furniture included, good condition. $300.  8 ft. canvas covered work table with full lower shelf. very sturdy. $30.  SLAB ROLLER AND KILN AND TABLE TOGETHER---$800.
 email Marciadahlmanpottery@yahoo.com, or call 824-6120.)

September 17th SAPG Meeting Acquisitions

Do you have a recent ceramics acquisition in your collection? Something you purchased at NCECA perhaps? Maybe a piece you acquired years ago? A vintage MacKenzie, McBride or Old MacDonald? Everyone is invited to bring one or two ceramic pieces to show off at the September 17th SAPG meeting.

It’s a ceramics collectors “Show and Tell” (except you don’t have to “Tell”). Forms will be available to fill in the artist name, owners name, date of acquisition, etc.
You can also specify “Do Not Touch” as the SAPG will not be responsible for any damages.

Guild Meeting Sept 17th

Location: 2013 Blanco Rd (Robert & Rose Escamilla Studio)

Time: 6 pm

Ronan Peterson - "Scratching the Surface" Demonstration Workshop

Ronan Peterson - "Scratching the Surface"
Demonstration Workshop
Don't miss this great workshop by our October 2013 exhibition artist!

Saturday - Sunday, October 5th - 6th, 2013
10AM-4PM each day

Workshop Description:

This workshop will focus on enlivening the surface of your ceramic vessels through slipping, sgraffito, champleve, inlay, slip trailing, terra sigillata, resist patterning, glaze layering, and utilizing atmospheric effects in electric kilns. Instruction will focus on working in cone 6 electric kiln firings, but techniques and information can be applied to all temperatures and types of kiln firings. The first part of this workshop will focus on making some simple vessel forms to try out different demonstrated surface embellishments. Functional and sculptural ceramicists alike will benefit from demonstrations and discussions intent on activating the ceramic surface. Participants should bring 5-6 of their own pots to work on - either leatherhard or bone dry (cone 5-6 clay.) Workshop attendees will also receive a packet of slip, terra sigallatta, and glazes recipes for use in their home studios.

Recommended for students who can center 2+ pounds of clay or who can comfortably handbuild ceramic forms. However, this workshop focuses on decorative techniques - students will not be on the wheel during class time.

Location: Lone Star College North Harris
2700 W.Thorne Drive, Room FA110
Houston, Texas 77073
Main #: (281) 618-5400 Ceramics studio & office #: (281) 618-5609

Cost: $225

Cancellation Policy:
Cancel before 9/1/13: $35 processing fee
Cancel after 9/1/13: no refund

Please make your check out to 18 Hands Gallery and mail to 249-B W. 19th Street, Houston, TX 77008. If you would like to pay by credit card, please call the Gallery at 713-869-3099.

Hill Country Arts Foundation Clay Workshop

Hill Country Arts Foundation 120 Point theatre rd. s., Ingram, Tx http://www.hcaf.com/

Co-op Proposal in San Antonio

At our last meeting, we were presented with the idea of creating a ceramics coop in San Antonio. This is a ground breaking idea for potters who wish to work, but do not have a studio of their own. The opportunities for individual artists and the guild is limitless. Here is the link for the proposal. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0_Rr4VNf6HdY1FfWE9WZ0NqbTQ/edit?usp=sharing. Please look it over. If you are interested in the Co-op, contact etsysalvage@gmail.com.

If you are unable to reach the above link, try  http://sanantoniopottersguild.com/forms/Coop%20proposal.pdf.

“Six Degrees of Separation in the Ceramics World” By Kevin Van Winkle

The purpose of “Six Degrees of Separation in the Ceramics World” is to provide an educational activity for all San Antonio Potters Guild members to participate in. You can trace your clay “roots” and see how you connect to others on a large scale map which may peak your interest to research people on the map you are not familiar with.

“Six Degrees of Separation” is the theory that everyone and everything is six or fewer steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person in the world, so that a chain of “a friend of a friend” statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps.

The game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” was invented as a play on the concept. The goal is to link any actor to Kevin Bacon through no more than six connections, where two actors are connected if they have appeared in a movie or commercial together.

Facebook's data team released two papers in November 2011 which document that amongst all Facebook users at the time of research (721 million users with 69 billion friendship links) there is an average distance of 4.74.

Here’s how to play:

Step 1. Create your connection list.

Your first connection must be someone you studied with, as the ceramics class instructor or ceramics workshop leader.

Your subsequent connections (2-6) should be someone the previously named person studied or was affiliated with.

You can send as many lists as you want as long as your first connection is a different person from your previous list. (Example: You took a class from Dennis Smith and a class from Ryan Takaba, so, you can submit two lists.)

Step 2. E-mail your list to van_wink@swbell.net 

(See list example below.)

I will add you to the “Six Degrees of Separation in the Ceramics World Map” and “the map” will be available for viewing at the monthly SAPG meetings.

Here is an example of one of my lists and how a list should look when e-mailed to me:

Kevin Van Winkle, studied with:

1.       Karl Borgeson,

2.       Warren MacKenzie

3.       Bernard Leach

4.       Shoji Hamada

5.       Itaya Hazan

You don’t have to have six on your list but if you only have one or two, you should research further.

Clayworld workshop

We are going to spend two days pulling seemingly random thoughts out and putting them  together in a personal clay narrative. Working with low fire clay, a very forgiving material, I’ll show you how I achieve a layered, watercolor effect on my whimsical ceramics. 

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!

Tuesday, August 6th, from 10 AM until Noon, we will be having a 2-hour workshop with visiting AMACO artist Diana Faris! The cost is only $15.00, supplies and firing included!

This glaze workshop will demonstrate the effect of Amaco’s Velvet Underglazes (V) underneath their LG and Opalescent series of glaze on four textured tiles.

Diana will also demonstrate how she builds a teapot.

The participants’ tiles will be fired and ready two days after the workshop for pick up at their convenience.