Opening April 12, 2019 at The Vanderelli Room in Columbus, OH 7-10 P.M. This show is the creation of my friend Kate Menke @katemenke a ceramic artist that wanted to combine artistic efforts & styles with friends and artists. The show features over 20 artists “crossing over” onto vessels that Menke has made either by hand or slip cast. All artists were able to select as many pieces to decorate as they wanted, and could use either ceramic glaze, or their own medium. Menke also used artists line drawings to transfer to cups for those of us that just wanted to explore the ceramic world further.

I decided to try something new & play with only the glazes and a ceramic pencil. Some came out better than I had hoped, others….well, they didn’t explode in the kiln! This was truly an awesome experience & I hope people can come and see so many tremendous artists in one room that have been brought together by friendship & respect. A humbling show indeed.

All work pictured below is available for purchase from The Vanderelli Room through April 30, 2019.

Facebook event is here for more info on location & hours.

One of a kind cups with glaze & pencil or sgraffito & glaze. Some have 24kt gold glaze.

Image transfer cups from line drawings. Some have 24kt gold glaze details.

Vase in progress - ceramic glaze doesn’t really allow you to see the finished product until it’s fired, so no one knows until the end!

The lines that look like pencil are actually a very special pencil that can withstand the heat of the kiln. A regular pencil lead line would simply burn off & disappear.

My working “pile”. The two terra cotta colored cups when fired will be a deep red. When a pencil wasn’t enough, I used something like a dental tool to carve the lines into the clay; this is called sgraffito.

In addition to colors changing, the size changes about 10% too. Ceramics are magic!!!

Hope you enjoyed seeing the process & results. This was a super fun project & I hope to continue it further in the future! Please contact The Vanderelli Room for purchase inquiry. If any are leftover after the show I will put them in my etsy shop. Until then, back to making!!