Packin' it up!
This is the first Labour Day in 15 years when I wasn’t
planning on getting up early to head into Sheridan College to meet a new group
of eager faces. I will miss the students and the friendship of the many staff I
grew to love at the college. Two of my ceramic heroes Grass Hopper and Ronnie
the Rat Meyers both left teaching to make the best work of their careers and to
teach more students than possible in a school setting. A life on the road and
the studio is the road they followed. They paved much of that road for me.
I spent the day
avoiding the 40 degree heat in my basement packing pots for Rochester. I never
feel I have my best. It is always in the next firing.
I head out to BC to teach a workshop and fire a train kiln in
a couple of weeks. Trying to hook up with two of my favourite Canadian potters
Cathi Jefferson and Jan Phelan. As well I
plan to visit Grass and Judi so the crazy pace continues. Home from BC and then
off to Rochester to stay with Dick Aerni and Carolyn Dilcher- Stutz to do
the Flower City Invitational Potters
Show https://www.rochesterarts.org/events/flower-city-pottery-invitational-2015/.
Going to be in the presence of so many of the best in the country. I hope I
don’t spend all my money on pots. It is a slight addiction of mine. I get home
for a few days and then off to La Meridiana in beautiful Tuscany. We have a
small group so it will be intimate and I’ll get a chance to work along side of
everyone. There is
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