REMINDER: BPG MEETING 4/28/2013

 Brooklyn Potters Meeting 4/28/2013

1. I'll be happy to bring my carrot ginger dressing recipe to the meeting for the folks who asked for it.

2. Looking forward to seeing you at the next meeting Sunday the 28th. We will have the pot luck from 6-7 pm and Nami Sakai will present
from 7-9 pm.

3. I am doing an Empty Bowls fundraiser with a friend in Bay Ridge Brooklyn in conjunction with neighborhood potters and the Bay Ridge Arts Festival to
raise funds for a local food bank and a lunch program. Both are run by church's with little funding besides some donations. We are doing this
on May 4th at one of the churches. If anyone would like to donate a bowl or two or more, bring them to the meeting or email me to pick them up from you.
Location of the fundraiser is the Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church in Bay Ridge.

Donations of bowls accepted at April 28th meeting

All proceeds to benefit the food pantry at the Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church and the Ecumenical Lunch Program at Mt Zion Church, serving the Bay Ridge and Sunset Park communities.

Multiple bowl pick up available by arrangement.

Please email emptybowlsbr@gmail.com or contact Ed Huml for additional information.

Many thanks in advance!!

Warm regards,
Ed Huml & Danielle Bullock
organizers

Tony Moore - Wood Fire

Hello Wood-fire Enthusiasts,

 

You are invited to participate in the next wood-firing of  my Anagama-Noborigama kiln in Cold Spring, NY loading on Sat. June 22, firing Thur June 27 thru Sun June 30 and unloading on Sat. July 13. Please sign up and let me know if you can be available for stoking shifts.

 

Please  see the attached firing announcement for details, firing fee forms, recommended clays for wood and directions to the kiln.

 

Please let me know if you intend to participate.

 

If there are any questions, please get in touch, but first please look at the attachments.

 

Looking forward to seeing you again in June.

Happy potting.

Best,

Tony

 

Email TonyMoore@optonline.net

Telephone (845) 265 3097

www.TonyMooreArt.com

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Photographer

Shout out: Doug Brooks is a local art photographer for the ceramic community. If you need professional shots made for competition link to him at: dougbrooksceramics.com

Sabina

Brooklyn Potters Meeting 4/28/2013

Brooklyn Potters Meeting 4/28/2013


1. I'll be happy to bring my carrot ginger dressing recipe to the meeting for the folks who asked for it.

2. Looking forward to seeing you at the next meeting Sunday the 28th. We will have the pot luck from 6-7 pm and Nami Sakai will present
from 7-9 pm.

3. I am doing an Empty Bowls fundraiser with a friend in Bay Ridge Brooklyn in conjunction with neighborhood potters and the Bay Ridge Arts Festival to
raise funds for a local food bank and a lunch program. Both are run by church's with little funding besides some donations. We are doing this
on May 4th at one of the churches. If anyone would like to donate a bowl or two or more, bring them to the meeting or email me to pick them up from you.
Location of the fundraiser is the Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church in Bay Ridge.

Donations of bowls accepted at April 28th meeting

All proceeds to benefit the food pantry at the Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church and the Ecumenical Lunch Program at Mt Zion Church, serving the Bay Ridge and Sunset Park communities.

Multiple bowl pick up available by arrangement.

Please email emptybowlsbr@gmail.com or contact Ed Huml for additional information.

Many thanks in advance!!

Warm regards,
Ed Huml & Danielle Bullock
organizers

Bowls!

Check out this link from the New York Times: http:  
//www.nytimes.com/interactive/garden/Reader-Bowls.html?ref=style#index

The museum in Portland is having a bowl show and this is a terrific interactive display of that.

Sabina

Screwball Spaces has a space!

From: Screwball Spaces <screwballspaces@gmail.com>

Date: March 13, 2013 10:54:53 AM EDT

To: undisclosed-recipients:;

Subject: small space available

I am writing to inform you of an opening in the ceramics arena here at Screwball Spaces. We have a communal space with 17 spaces and 15 working ceramicists. our kiln room has 4 kilns one 11 cu ft front loading, one 9 cu ft Skutt, one 7 cu ft Skutt and a 1 cu ft test kiln. We have a slab roller, 2 wedging tables, extruder, slop sink, and slip cast draining table. The space available is $185 per month and we require 2 months security deposit, one will be used as your last months payment and the rest returned to you provided everything is left in good order. Screwball Spaces provides trash, heat, electric (not kiln firings), high speed wireless internet, bathrooms, one with a shower, kitchenette area with micro wave, fridge, two vending machines, and a computer with printer and fax. The space also includes a gallery and a roof deck.
 Please contact me via email or by phone (718) 938-5505 to come see the space. I will not be able to show he space until Thursday around 10am.

Clay Forum lll at NYU

 Submitted by Lynn Goodman as she received it:

 

Dear Colleagues,

 

Back by popular demand and in its third edition, you are invited to attend: 

                Clay Forum III  

Saturday April 13 at 1 - 6 pm

NYU Department of Art and Art Professions

                The Barney Building, Einstein Auditorium

 34 Stuyvesant Street (between E. 9th and 10th Streets and 2^nd and 3^rd Ave)

 

This exciting event brings the ceramic community together for education and information and is intended for ceramic artists, collectors, museum professionals, and clay art lovers . This year’s forum will feature Sabrina Gschwandtner, David East and Peter Barnell who are leaders in the field of contemporary ceramics with all proceeds benefiting  the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts.

 

One prominent feature of the afternoon is the opportunity to share your latest work, travel, program, research or other ceramic related activity for a 5 minute  presentation.To Register go to:   http://watershedceramics.org/clay-forum-3/.

Cordially,

Judy

 

Judith S. Schwartz, Ph.D.

Director Sculpture in Craft Media: Clay, Glass, Metals, Fiber

New York University

Department of Art and Art Professions

34 Stuyvesant Street

New York,NY 10003-7599

Tel: 212 998-5733

Fax:212 985-4320

http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/art/

www.judyschwartz.com

(Located between 9th and 10th Streets and Second and Third Aves.)

Google Map: Go to this site to see on Google map.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&rlz=&q=34+stuyvesant+street+nyc&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=34+Stuyvesant+St,+New+York,+NY+10003&gl=us&ei=VLWrTNOIM4GB8gbj_bjaBw&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CBQQ8gEwAA