Here are a couple of hard working women at Jugtown. Pam Owen makes some great critter knobs with confident lively sgraffito on the jar itself. Here are a couple of her salt glazed jars in the vast collection of pots at her sister Jennie's house.
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| Pam Owen |
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| Pam Owen salt glazed bird jar |
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| Pam Owen Rabbit jar |
Bayle Owen is hard at work on the wheel making lids for a large number of pumpkin jars Jugtown will need for it's annual Pumpkin's at Jugtown October 5th.
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| Bayle Owen - turning or as in the Queen's English- Throwing |
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| Drying pumpkins |
The similarities between Jugtown and Pinecroft are uncanny except they have 30 years on us. Jugtown's starts in 1917 where as Pinecroft started in 1947 after my aunt and uncle came home from serving in WW2. Pots for people to use- whadda a concept.
What will happen to the potteries of Seagrove was a question posed to me last night? Seems a lot of potters are retiring around Seagrove. Jugtown's legacy will continue with Bayle and Travis still turning and burning. Not sure about Pinecroft when Brenda and I no longer make work there. With the costs of higher education doesn't it make sense to cut your teeth working at a real pottery? University education here in the US from what I am hearing could be $50,000 a year. Hey mum and dad, I want to be a potter and I'll start out $200,000 in debt. Mum and dad silently stare at their child with their jaws on floor and wonder where they went wrong.
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What will become of art fairs? I see a few younger people stepping into the scene, but not in the numbers that built the art fair.
What will become of St Croix Valley Pottery Tour? Look at the collective ages of the venues and you have to guess that the grandaddy of all tours is just a few years from its expiration date.
There are more makers than ever, but pottery is moving in a different direction -- just as we moved it in my generation.
http://www.adoptapotter.org.uk/
8 months of study jammed into a 15 week course. Intensive is the word!
https://flemingcollege.ca/programs/ceramics
http://selkirk.ca/program/ceramics
https://www.nic.bc.ca/programs-courses/fine-art/fine-art-programs/professional-potter-advanced-diploma/
https://nbccd.ca/programs/ceramics/