Earthsea Pottery » Galleries http://earthseapottery.com Peggy Vrana and Michael Miller Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:37:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Amphorae (plural of Amphora) http://earthseapottery.com/2010/07/26/amphorae-plural-of-amphora/ http://earthseapottery.com/2010/07/26/amphorae-plural-of-amphora/#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:07:01 +0000 Michael Miller http://earthseapottery.com/?p=599
Amphora (Wikipedia) I'm preparing for the Pompeii Amphorae weekend at Greg Worthington's Worthington Gallery in Utah, September 11th and 12th. Labor Day weekend right beforehand, I have the Kings Mountain Art Fair in Woodside. We're working really hard right now, and loving it! More amphora coverage soon... And if you're anywhere near Utah, mark your calendar and [...]
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Amphora (Wikipedia)

I’m preparing for the Pompeii Amphorae weekend at Greg Worthington’s Worthington Gallery in Utah, September 11th and 12th. Labor Day weekend right beforehand, I have the Kings Mountain Art Fair in Woodside. We’re working really hard right now, and loving it!

More amphora coverage soon… And if you’re anywhere near Utah, mark your calendar and join us.

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Above is an interior shot of my my little cabin/studio with some of my collection of artwork and work in progress. Limitations of space do not in any way limit or inhibit one's creativity. So many people have asked about visiting our studios... The San Luis Obispo Arts Council puts on the Open Studios Tour, for [...]
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Above is an interior shot of my my little cabin/studio with some of my collection of artwork and work in progress. Limitations of space do not in any way limit or inhibit one’s creativity.

So many people have asked about visiting our studios… The San Luis Obispo Arts Council puts on the Open Studios Tour, for our section of the county on Oct. 9th and 10th. An encore weekend happens on the weekend of the 23rd and 24th. While we’re on break the weekend between (16th/17th), the southern part of the county has its art tour.

The final weekend is everyone who wants to participate in a second weekend of tour. That would be us of course – we’re relentless. There’s a pic somewhere on our computer from a previous year’s tour, with our show booth set up in front of Peggy’s studio displaying finished work, but I just can’t seem to find it. When I do, I’ll put it up.

The Open Studios Tours are a great way for people to come and see so many of the talented artists around San Luis Obispo county. We always have a great time showing our space and work to people. We usually have drinks and snacks to share, and it makes for a great art and social weekend.

It’s still a while until October, but mark your calendars early… This is a treat for anyone wanting the behind the scenes tour of their favorite artists.

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On Saturday, May 22nd, Peggy will be demonstrating at the Wushu Tai Chi Center annual open house. She will be doing 2 sword forms, a fan form, a spear form and several open hand forms. Peggy's teacher Liu Yu will be demonstrating her incredible, inspiring techniques. It's always an exciting event and open to anyone [...]
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On Saturday, May 22nd, Peggy will be demonstrating at the Wushu Tai Chi Center annual open house. She will be doing 2 sword forms, a fan form, a spear form and several open hand forms. Peggy’s teacher Liu Yu will be demonstrating her incredible, inspiring techniques. It’s always an exciting event and open to anyone who’s interested.
Location: San Luis Obispo Veterans Hall 10:00am-12:00pm, with feast to follow.


Also on May 22 is the Paso Robles Wine Festival in the park, directly across from our gallery in Studios on the Park. This is a huge tasting event for fantastic local wineries. Michael will be watching the gallery, so will miss Tai Chi open house for the first time in 13 years (we’re sad about this – but we’re very happy about both events). Family from San Francisco are coming down to see Peggy at open house for the first time, so that will be fun for her.


On Saturday, May 29th, of Memorial Day weekend is the Paso Robles Festival of Art in the down town park. This event is put on by Studios on the Park in conjunction with the City of Paso Robles. It will feature top notch artists from the area, in many different mediums. The city closes off Pine St. between us and the park and Studios on the Park becomes an integral part of the show.


On Father’s day weekend in June (the 18th, 19th, and 20th) Michael will be going to the KCBX Live Oak Music Festival. It’s near Lake Cachuma on the way to Santa Barbara (see their site for maps and details) and Michael will be selling our work while soaking up great music, fun and sun. Peggy will be in the gallery in anticipation of family arriving for our annual Miller/Vrana big family reunion (a huge hug and hello to our family!)

As always, join us at Studios in the Park, where we have our gorgeous gallery space amongst a plethora of great artists.

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It was really a day in the sun - about 80 degrees with a light wind - absolutely perfect weather. It was a great crowd and we had very good sales. Again this week, as at Saratoga, patrons bought some very nice pieces of both our collaborative work and my individual work. There was a [...]
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It was really a day in the sun – about 80 degrees with a light wind – absolutely perfect weather. It was a great crowd and we had very good sales. Again this week, as at Saratoga, patrons bought some very nice pieces of both our collaborative work and my individual work. There was a great funk/R&B band playing, wine tasting, BBQ, and art. What more could you ask for?

Our daughter Emily, with her daughter Zoë, and our son Josh, with his daughter Heidi and son Carter all stopped by for visits. It was a wonderfully fun day in Templeton.

We had our first weekend of expansion at our gallery at Studios on the Park, too. We are both thrilled with the new displays and more cohesive space. We’ve been working so hard in preparation that the space is already full! We’re very excited and looking forward to showing off the space… Here are our first photos.

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Pair filet mignon with a dry red. Pair flounder with a Valpolicella... How about an artist with a winery? On April 16th the winemakers of the Paso Robles Downtown Wineries and the artists of Studios on the Park joined for the "Art of Wine" event, a fusion of local wineries and artists. Peggy and Michael each paired [...]
]]> Pair filet mignon with a dry red. Pair flounder with a Valpolicella… How about an artist with a winery? On April 16th the winemakers of the Paso Robles Downtown Wineries and the artists of Studios on the Park joined for the “Art of Wine” event, a fusion of local wineries and artists.

Peggy and Michael each paired with local Paso Robles area wineries to collaborate on inspired pieces, mixing the feel of their respective winery in art. Later, offerings from the wineries and the pieces were sold at silent auction.

Clayhouse Wines and Michael Miller paired to create “Clay House” – with David Frick, winemaker, getting his hands nice and covered in clay in the process.

D’Ambino Vineyards and Cellars and Peggy Vrana paired to create “D’Ambino Family At Play”, a piece highlighting five musical members of the D’Ambino family run business, each wearing tuxedos and playing in a ceramic jazz concert.

Both of these wineries have absolutely amazing wines, created by truly wonderful people. It was a lot of fun and good times working on these pieces. We’re looking forward to getting out to the tasting rooms again!

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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 [...]
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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 

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     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 [...]
]]>      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.IMG_6133studios on the park

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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 [...]
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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.

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