Found some photos

I should add these and some others to my webpage. http://www.whirledmud.com, however I am not feeling that ambitious....
These are some things I have been working on the last few months...

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It was great to be a part of the MUFON  Symposium this past weekend.  Meet some interesting folks and saw a lot of great art!!

SUPER GREATFUL

I received a letter last week from the Nevada Arts Council.  They have provided me with a Professional Development Grant - it is to help cover the costs of going to NCECA 2013.

Here are some images of NCECA - I will be doing a full slide show Mid May at Clay Arts Vegas:

Kristen Keifer

YUMMY Cups

Walter McConnell

Walter McConnell and Gerit Grimm

This work will be presented in August 2014 at Clay Arts Vegas

Non-functional it makes me happy-

 and the craft!

I was loving the form and the lift

 

 

These Cloud sculptures by Ryan Takaba are amazing

I am in Columbia Missouri today working on Cosi Fan Tutte with my dear friend Christine Seitz.  Hoping to hook up with Bede Clarke later this week.... Watching his demo at NCECA was really great - what a cool happenstance.

Gareth Mason At Amoca ---- FUN!!!

i It was great going to AMOCA and seeing the Gareth Mason workshop.  His energy is amazing, technique fascinating, and his finished work is inspiring. 

Gareth Mason is a Fellow of the Craft Potters Association and Brother of the Art Workers Guild, London. His work is exhibited regularly in solo and group exhibitions both in England and Europe. In February 2011 his first solo exhibition in America, entitled Other Forces was held in the Jason Jacques Gallery in Manhattan. A short film about his practice entitled White was awarded Grand Prix at the Projections D’Argile film festival, Montpellier, France in 2002. In 2006 he participated in the European Keramik Symposium, Gmunden and accompanying European touring exhibition.

A major solo exhibition entitled An Unfolding Narrative was held in 2007 at Blackwell, the Arts and Crafts House. He is a member of the International Association for Ceramic Art Education and Exchange and contributed to their conferences in Farnham (England), Nairobi (Kenya) and Icheon (Korea). His vessel, 'Open', received an 'Honourable Mention' award at the World Ceramic Biennale Exhibition, Yeoju, Korea 2009. Recent talks and demonstrations include invited speaker at the 2008 CAAI International Ceramics Conference, Tel Hai, Israel and Invited speaker at 2009 Ege University International Art Days symposium, Izmir, Turkey. He presented an address, 'Fire, Ceramics Mystery and Creativity' in the Speakers Programme at the 2011 SOFA Chicago Expo and was Visiting Artist at California State University, Long Beach in October the same year.
His most recent show was Fire and Wax, a two person exhibition with the New York painter Martin Kline, part of the Piacenti Gallery's exhibition 'Masters Old and New', in association with Jason Jacques. 'Friendship Forged in Fire' at AMOCA will be his first exhibition in California.
He lives and works in Hampshire, England. His website is GarethMason.net.

Now if  I can get the NCECA app to download

JANUARY 1, 2013

What a year!  I have spent the last 40 hours thinking about what has transpired.  Last winter sitting in front of the fireplace in a joking way I said to 10 friends lets open our own studio.  A year later, there are five of us who are still working like mad to make Clay Arts Vegas a reality.  We have an amazing gallery, a store that features Laguna Clay, we have our own online store clayartsvegas-store, and we teach classes seven days a week. 

We have been featured artists in local papers, magazines, and radio interviews, and our work has been held up by Laguna Clay Co. as artists of the week.  Together with other arts organizations, we are working to make Downtown Las Vegas a hub of art and a place to make clay.  I have to say I am very proud of what has been accomplished.  I will also say it is never easy, lots of growing pains, lots of scary moments, lots of fun, and whole collection of new and old friend supporting the project, to all of them I say THANK YOU, from all of it, I grow.  To say the least I am honored, lucky and looking forward to the New Year.

Almost two months have passed

So in June I was throwing pots at the Venetian having a really good time.  Since that week I can barely remember what has all happened, but here are some highlights:

Michele Gomez Houk, also of CLAY ARTS VEGAS, went to the Utah State Fair where we were the judges for Pottery and Ceramics.  What a display of talent!

I did demonstrations for the Zappos vendor party at the World Market Center.  I wish I had a photo or two; we were set up about 500 feet from a GIANT praying mantis that shot fire out of his antennas.

With CLAY ARTS VEGAS we have had two First Fridays, this month (August)  we have a goblet show with artists from 7 states, students from CAV, and work from Mission Hills Pottery.  The guest juror was Bill Loken of Pahrump Winery.

I was commissioned to create a 3 inch tall figure, in porcelain for a local collector.  The piece was then air brushed b another artist.

My mom was helping at CLAY ARTS VEGAS for two months.

Friday I was commissioned to create 9 mugs and a vase with faces for someones birthday

Yesterday I lost my phone......

And I almost forgot; KNPR featured me as one of the local Las Vegas artists,  Check out the issue

http://issuu.com/nvpr/docs/desert_companion_2012sept

If I keep on top of this perhaps it wont seem like a laundry list,  having  CLAY ARTS VEGAS is a huge under taking.  However, it is so rewarding and a ton of fun.

CARNAVALE @ The Venetian

Who would have ever thought I would be the entertainment at a luxury resort in Vegas.  This is defiantly one for the "WOW" category of things I have done.  That being said, I am having a blast.  There is a lots of great interest in what I am doing, I have had a number of friends and fellow potters stop by to say HELLO.  If by any chance you are in Vegas this week, stop in at the Venetian, and say hello, I am across from the waterfall.