Earthsea Pottery

Opening Night -Studios on the Park

Michael Miller — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:28:54 +0000

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

Studios on the Park – Paso Robles

Michael Miller — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:51:42 +0000

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.

Morro Bay Art in the Park

Michael Miller — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:04:33 +0000

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.

The Gallery at The Network

Michael Miller — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:16:05 +0000

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.

Live Oak Music Festival

Michael Miller — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:00:16 +0000

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.

Kiln Room at Earthsea Pottery

Peggy Vrana — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:54:17 +0000

I’m learning to blog as we speak and I just wanted to share a picture of the kiln full of pots ready for a firing. The door is about to close and the firing begins. (This is actually an older photo) and I’m looking forward to sharing new works with you in coming blog posts.

Learning to blog

Michael Miller — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:30:26 +0000

Peggy and I with the help of our son Sol are bringing ourselves into the 21st century by joining in the virtual world, figuring out how to use wordpress and finally moving forward with our blog. Sol and his wife Galina are out here on the west coast visiting from their home in Pennsylvania.

We’ve had a beautiful day hiking and enjoying the coast. If you find yourself in Cambria and visit us at our home/studio, this is my studio in the pines.

Dragonfly Platter and Zuni

Sol — Mon, 18 May 2009 01:01:36 +0000

This is a test post with pictures and may be deleted in the near future. Testing appearance on front page and RSS feeds.

Dragonfly Platter (top) and Zuni (above) are examples of Peggy and Michael’s work and have either sold or are in our private collection and not for sale.