Textiles! in Grand Junction

Textiles from Peru 
at the Holy Family School in Grand Junction

November 2 ~ 8:00 to 3:00

786 26 1/2 Rd  Grand Junction, CO 81506

a mandala of chuspas, useful purses or medicine bags

Free Admission, 90 artists with quality handmade items.  Homemade soups and goodies in the cafeteria, cookie harvest.  We will be located between the two buildings, outside, with a large selection of the textiles from Taquile Island, Lake Titicaca, where we are godparents and in deep relationship with extended family since our first visit 27 years ago. For more of the story see our Amigos de Taquile blog at http://taquilefriends.blogspot.com We have been trading solar gear and efficient lights in exchange for beautiful weavings and knitted goods. We will bring a large selection of knitted hats and scarves, gloves and vests, as well as weavings in the complex patterned technique for which Taquile women are famous. We will also bring a sampling of our pottery. table runners--also used as scarves a mandala of hats a mandala of gloves

2013 Art Fair Schedule

Note: A Table of Contents (next blog post below) will help you find specific items of our work.


August 31 - September 1-2 Santa Fe Fiesta
Our booth is located right in the center of the Exciting Plaza up against the obelisk. Easy to find!
Show hours are 9-5 Saturday, Sunday and Monday
Lots of new fruit basket forms, beautiful functional bowls and Chip 'n Dips with their feet in the curved open pedestal form.

Our booth will look something like this.

November 29-30 and December 1 Arvada Center Holiday Art Fair 
Located in the Beautiful Arvada Center on Wordsworth.

Stay tuned for more holiday shows.
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July 3-4-5 Cherry Days in Paonia
Hours are Wednesday 5:00 to dusk; Thursday the 4th 9:00am to 7:00pm or so  and Friday 10:00am to 7:00pm
Our first show will be our hometown show in Paonia. We show our top-of -the line work, but also use this opportunity to sell our odds and ends and slightly flawed pieces at a discount for our friends and neighbors.
We will also show textiles from our "Trade Textiles for Solar Gear" project on Taquile Island, Lake Titicaca, Peru. These fair-traded woven and knitted goods have exquisite fine detail.

A mandala of coca purses called chuspas

July 28-29-30 Carbondale Mountain Fair Wait List
 We are still on the wait list for this fun show, so may not participate. Don't count on finding us there. I will update this page if they find a space for us.

August 10 - 11 Ridgway Rendezvous
Show hours are 9am to 5pm 
Lots of artists in a beautiful location in Ridgway, Colorado.

Table of Contents

Because this is a Blog and not a regular website, The following Links will help you maneuver around the site and find pictures and descriptions of various types of pottery. Be sure to scroll down the page to see the various posts.

BOWLS Link

MUGS Links

SCULPTURE Link

SERVING PIECES Link

BASKETS Link

GALLERIES:

We often travel to a community in Peru which we have been visiting for nearly 30 years. You can follow our travel blog at www.taquilefriends.blogspot.com

To find our work in the meantime, our pottery is sold at the following COLORADO GALLERIES:

Sundance and Friends 1111 River Park Road --Buena Vista -- (719) 966-5361

http://www.sundanceleather.com/Retail-Store_ep_46.html

Pfister's Handworks -- 302 Elk Avenue -- Crested Butte -(970) 349-6731
https://www.facebook.com/Pfisters-Handworks-1072934496065933/

Working Artists' Gallery -- 520 Main Street -- Grand Junction -(970) 256-9952

https://www.facebook.com/workingartistsgallery/?rf=134534513264915

Earthen Vessel Gallery-- 115 W 9th St -- Durango -(970) 247-1281

Limited selections can also be found in Paonia, Colorado, at
The Blue Sage Center for the Arts 226-228 Grand Ave --Paonia --(970) 527-7243
The Old River Road Trading Post -- 15495 Black Bridge Road -- 970-527-4740

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY Read about who we are.

Holiday Art Fair Schedule

Please join us at our two holiday art shows.   
  
Start your holiday shopping with a civilized alternative to Thanksgiving weekend shopping and the frenzy of Black Friday in the ARVADA CENTER on Wadsworth in Arvada, near Denver. 
  
You'll find our booth and a good selection of our pottery easily if you bear LEFT after the entrance. You'll also find quality and unique artwork from over 150 artisans in all media throughout this beautiful venue. The show has been extended to three days for the first time.     

     

DETAILS: 

The Arvada Center 33rd Annual Holiday Craft Fair
6901 Wadsworth Blvd.    just north of I-70

http://arvadacenter.org/galleries/33rd-annual-holiday-craft-fair-now-three-days-2

Thanksgiving weekend November 23-25, all three days.

Show hours: 

 9:00am to 5:00pm Friday and Saturday 

11:00am to 4:00pm on Sunday 

Free parking - $5 entry per day (free to "Friends of the Center") 

The following weekend is 

the Paonia Holiday Art Fair

We'll be showing our pottery 

And TEXTILES from 

Taquile Island, Lake Titicaca, Peru

Most of the textiles were fair traded for solar gear.

Seventeen artists, live music, 

festive hometown atmosphere

Friday, Nov. 30, 3-8pm

Saturday, Dec. 1, 9am -5pm

Blue Sage Center for the Arts

228 Grand Avenue - Paonia, Colorado

Wowza! Photos of the Creamery Show

Snapshots of my sculpture show at 
The Creamery Arts Center 

165 West Bridge Street in Hotchkiss, Colorado.
Gallery hours are 11-6 M-Sat.

The show remained on display until August 6, 2012.

Crone, Mother, Maiden - plus

Grounded

Orchid Women

Juniper

Fun to see them hanging all together!

Passionate Iris

Iris Reflection

Iris Reverie

Sweet Iris Faces

Pink Lady Iris

Blue Iris

Purple Iris

a rift in the sky . . . and even the egg is lost

Bruised and Battered

Two pieces: Pillow Peace
Sometimes   the Top of the Pillow    just isn't enough

Sometimes    the Top of the Pillow    just isn't enough
(sold)

Pillow Peace

Yes, but.... (sold)

Wowza! Sculpture show at the Hotchkiss Creamery

"Wowza! your pieces at the creamery are fantastic.  they are so original.  i love the little faces in the flowers,  the glazes are really well done."-comment from artist Erin Williams

Iris Reverie

It's almost a retrospective, the first time many of these sculptures have been seen all in one place. I'm really proud of this collection of my Ceramic Sculptures and hope to see lots of friends and patrons at the opening for refreshments (I'm bringing an awesome pesto dip) and maybe even a poetry performance (The Potter's Claim with the white gloves).
Opening in the Peach Gallery at the Creamery in Hotchkiss 
on Friday July 13 6:00-8:30pm.
Show continues through August 6.
If you know my work as only strong functional stoneware pottery: mugs and serving ware, you're in for a treat with this show of expressive botanical themes executed in Stoneware and Porcelain. Most items are for sale.

Mugs mug shots

These figured mugs are wheel thrown and decorated with colored clay slips, sometimes called engobes.
I cut a detailed stencil in order to replicate the images. Usually the back of the mug has a mountain from a stencil and around the figure are free-hand mountain "paintings."
Each mug holds a generous 11 oz. at approximately 4" x 3" x 3" and is made of high fired stoneware: dishwasher and microwave safe.

Dancing Cranes

Flying Cranes

Elk

Moose

Hawk and Eagle

Aspen Forest, extra complex

Brown Aspen Leaves

Bicycle (road bike)

Mountain Bike

Climber

Fisher

Hikers

Kayak

Dressage

Jumping Horse

Western Rider

Alpine Skier

Telemark Skier

Snowboarders "Shredder"

Golfer Man

Golfer Woman

Some available images are not pictured. 
You can see a verbal list at: 

MUGS--THE LIST