POTTERY Kathy Clarke
Pottery
I love playing with water and fire. Clay fits in nicely, going from malleable mud to rock hard form. I love participating in the potter’s act of recording a bit of history, crossing cultures and time, connecting the experience of being human in 2000 BC to 2007 AD -- all in a simple cup. Ha! Good trick!
Kathy was introduced to
clay 25 years ago; most of her pottery education came through Frog Hollow’s
master-level workshops and resident potters.
Currently
Kathy Clarke is down under the gallery
in the Middlebury Frog Hollow Pottery Studio where she teaches and makes
things. She believes that handmade objects can have a positive impact on
people's lives...that the "love of making" can be mysteriously injected
into the piece and stays there for centuries. She, in fact, knows of a 6,000
year old pot from Cyprus that sits in a museum humming away with the unknown
maker's utter delight intact, fresh and vibrant. Craft produced in drudgery with
too much concern for commerce or politics, thuds and is said to be a sign
of a culture's imminent collapse. So, in a way, being happy is a
responsibility to the betterment of the whole world and everyone in it, no? If
you buy her pottery and do not get happy within 10 years, she will personally
give you your money back.
Kathy uses stoneware clay
and fires it to 2300 degrees Fahrenheit in a gas reduction kiln. She
continually experiments with forms and glazes and celebrates their limitless
challenges and possibilities.
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