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Monday, December 7, 2009
On the Radar: Tour de Clay
Posted by Leilani Polk on Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:00 AM
Welcome to On the Radar, where we preview up-and-coming arts events to mark your calendar for. Last December, I managed to make one of four stops on the Tour de Clay of Tampa Bay, a gallery hop-style tour of local pottery studios. I snagged myself a round, indigo blue ceramic dish created by Rising Sun potter and owner Peter Streit. The top of the dish was embedded with a dragonfly; when you opened it up, the bed was glazed with vivid hues of colored glass that had been melted down and baked to get its artful cracks. Of course, I broke the piece less than two months later. Luckily, the Florida Westcoast Ceramic Society is staging the second edition this weekend and I plan on picking up a new one.
Four active pottery studios are featured and 12 Bay area clay artists take part and will be present to discuss their works, answer questions, and perform live clay demos. In addition, each studio presents Saturday kiln openings that are staggered every two hours so industrious folks can experience all four and check out the newest, still-warm bowls, cups, plates, vases, teapots, and other decorative or functional ware by participating artists like Streit, Glenn Woods, Ira Burhans, Kimberli Cummings and Jack Boyle. (Pictured: "Casserole," but Ira Burhans) Dec. 12-13, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Fri.-Sat., Pottery Boys Studio, 30 Bogie Lane, Palm Harbor, 727-736-4870, Paper and Clay Studio, 110 Peterson Lane, Palm Harbor, 727-772-9570, Rising Sun Pottery Studio, 1112 W. Carmen St., Tampa, 813-253-6055, and San Antonio Pottery Studio, 11903 Curley Road, San Antonio, 352-588-4228, free admission, tampatourdeclay.com. –Leilani Polk
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