We had a terrific opening night on Friday, July 17. I was having so much fun visiting with our many friends who stopped by to celebrate with us, that I forgot to take any pictures of the party. Our studio partner, Henry A.J. Ramos and his beautiful wife, Claudia were there co-hosting the event . We were all very pleased with the response from the wonderful people in attendance. Our new hours at the Studios on the Park beginning July 24 will be, Thurs. & Sun. 12:00-6:00, Fri. & Sat. 4:00-10:00
Our latest adventure is to open a working studio/gallery with Studios on the Park at 1130 Pine St. in Paso Robles. Peggy and I share a studio with Contemporary Painter Henry Ramos. I’ve been busy building the displays and a small studio area where we will demonstrate throwing on the wheel, and painting wax resist and glaze inlay. Studios on the Park is a selection of appx. 20 top notch artists who juried into the group. All of us are working in our studio spaces -painting, sculpting, silversmithing, and potting during our business hours – Thurs. 12:00 – 6:00, Fri. & Sat. 12:00 – 10:00, Sun. 12:00 – 6:00. The many working artists are a very unique situation. Some of the artists give classes or workshops which we will also doing as time goes on. Yesterday was our first day with pieces in the gallery and it was exciting and sucessful. We’re really looking forward to working with this group of talented artists. Opening party on Friday, July 17 from 7-10pm.
I’m busy finishing new pieces for this weekends Art in the Park in Morro Bay – July 3, 4, 5. I loaded a glaze firing yesterday and fired the kiln until 4am this morning. The kiln will be cool enough to unload by tomorrow night – appx. 30 hrs. cooling time. Unloading a glaze firing is always the most exciting part of the process, the culmination of several weeks work. This show is Michael’s new work exclusively and will include the results of this firing.
This afternoon, we set up a display of beautiful, new pieces at The Gallery at The Network at 778 Higuera St. in San Luis Obispo. We will now have an ongoing, ever changing body of work available in SLO. The Gallery is celebrating its 10th year and we are pleased to be joining them. This cooperative Gallery represents clay, glass, wood, jewelry, photographic and painting artists.
We just returned from 3 days of camping, selling our artwork and listening to lots of great music at the KCBX Live Oak Music Festival in the Santa Ynez mountains. We had a terrific response to our new pieces, met many interesting people and reconnected with old friends. One of the highlights of the weekend was Trombone Shorty and his band Orleans Avenue. Incredible! This young trombone and trumpet player blew us all away. Thank you New Orleans.
