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January CAC meeting celebrated the life of long-time member Fred Chen - and had a Show and Tell session

1/30/2022

Remembering our beloved Fred Chen (who passed away on January 9, 2022).

The Ceramic Club’s General Meeting on January 11, 2022 (held on Zoom) featured an informal session in honor of Fred Chen, who had passed away on January 9, 2022. Fred was such an important and well-loved member of our club! Included in this session were several of our members’ reminiscences and slideshows of Fred in our Ceramic Studio, as well as some photos of his wonderful pottery. A few photos of Fred are below. Also there's a video recording of the online memorial available for our members to view on YouTube. (Note: it’s about 31 minutes long.)
LINK: https://youtu.be/3JdX3Up-CLo

This meeting also featured a wonderful Show & Tell session of all sorts of things made by our members in recent months – and not all of them are ceramic, since our studio is still closed. In addition to pottery and sculpture, there were handmade books, jewelry, and knitted hats & scarves, among other things! See below for some of the pictures. For a more complete version (and to see exactly who created which pieces), check out the video of this session, which is available for our members to view on YouTube – click on the link below. (Note: it’s about 30 minutes long.)
LINK: https://youtu.be/SsbEbEHn8mo

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our Members make more "Shelter in Place" Art - Part 11

7/20/2020

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Gaby Miller has created many beads for jewelry, as well as some very nice ceramic vessels, during these months at home. They're all still waiting for bisque firing.. eventually I expect they will be very colorful! (below, left)
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Theresa Kuo reports "If I had a wheel at home, I would throw something, but since we are bereft of my favorite ceramic tool, I am quilting. See the first of several Christmas quilts for our family's kids. I finally succeeded in getting black outlines - this time in a quilt instead of in a bowl's glazed design. Under SIP one cannot be fussy… Life is definitely good! Be well and be safe!" (below, right)

Lucia Tsang sent photos of her beautiful jewelry. Below are three necklaces that she put together recently. She says that all of the ceramic components were made before the studio was closed. The one on the left side has sagger fired beads; the center pendant was high fired; the necklace on the right combines a high fired (the house-shaped piece) and a sagger fired piece (the blue background pendant).

Linda Stoehr's recent projects include two dishes, both beautifully painted with underglaze and waiting for firing (below, top row). Also "a quilt I've been wanting to make for years. Started the first of April, working on the finishing touches now." (second row down on the left)

Terri Snyder: "Here is my ‘Shelter’ painting, done in acrylic. It’s of the cottages in Capitola." Love the colors! (Above, right.)

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Meanwhile, Janet Welch has just adopted a lovely older dog, which is keeping her busy! Here is a photo of Janet with her new pet, holding one of her animal portrait plates of a pug - how appropriate! (below, left)
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Ana Resnik recently finished this beautiful needlepoint, which she plans to use to cover a pillow. (FYI, Ana commissioned Janet Welch to render her own design onto canvas for this project.) (below, right)

Patty Taylor created her beautiful sculpture "Dreaming of San Francisco SoundBox" before the lockdown. Below are 2 views of it - be sure to look carefully at the back of the head of the sculpture.

Anne Shulenberger made a mixed-media collaged piece with the subject "On the Edge" for one of her Art Tag groups. It was done using the binding of an old book missing its pages. There are two little handmade books glued into it; the title of the blue book is "Black Lives Matter" and that of the black one is "Pandemic." Tiny figures balance precariously on a tightrope between the books. (The inside is shown below, left - the outside of the piece is on the right).

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CAC Members stay creative as we start the 3rd month of shutdown - Part 8

5/10/2020

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Patty Taylor's "collage wall sculpture" (photo on the left below), is finished and now ready for bisque firing. Patty also reports: "Shelter in place has kept me busy designing new jewelry - several necklaces and even a bracelet ." Center Photo: "The orange necklace and the bracelet were made from Air Dry Clay (no need to bisque or fire - it’s very strong), bought online from Michaels. The green & white necklaces were created from my enormous collection of Raku-fired beads." Right photo: "three Summer necklace designs featuring "sand dollar" clay slices in white, with a splash of gray on silver loops.
I am having fun!"

Fred Chen says "Since I cannot throw, I stroll. Idle hands find clay not, but iPhone photo knob."

Left photo: “Hey, slow down! It says 25.” Right photo: “Sharing”

Darryla Green sent us this image of "Eco-prints from local plants in my new outdoor patio dye/clay studio." Left photo, below.
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Josephine Wang has been doing more Chinese calligraphy: "Same poem, two ways. The one on right is in the formal style. The other one is more casual. It’s like the difference between print and script. I’ve enjoyed the lockdown. I wouldn’t have resumed calligraphy otherwise. " Right photo, below

Susan Scott is "a member of the new Orientation class that didn't quite finish so I'm not in the roster yet." She has been "taking photos on walks around home (Entry 12 on Golden Rain). The first one (left) is of a tree I love passionately… I had to adjust the exposure to see the face clearly. I visit it daily on my walks. The eye is really there, highlighted by natural light at certain times of the day. It's a broken off branch. The nose and mouth are from a natural knothole." The next two are also wonderful photos - close-ups of nature that resemble abstract paintings.

Anne Shulenberger created the third piece in her "Storm" series (above right) with an oblong ceramic plaque (black, with a sgrafitto'd design) mounted onto an oval canvas.
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Janet Welch recently put a marvelous ceramic birdbath that she made, complete with 2 small birds on it, out in her garden area. She also has two new needlepoint designs (on the 2nd row below), which she did on commission. She certainly knows how to stay busy!

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January CAC meeting celebrated the life of long-time member Fred Chen - and had a Show and Tell session

our Members make more "Shelter in Place" Art - Part 11

CAC Members stay creative as we start the 3rd month of shutdown - Part 8

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