Terry Parker: Pottery Shards

Last weekend was the Tucson Museum of Art’s Artisans’ Market.  My friend, Gayle Bair styled my table for me . This is the second time she has done this for me – looks better every time she does it ! If you are not familiar with Gayle’s Sgraffito decorated pottery, check it out on her website -  claybair.com .

My next event is Tucson Artists’ Open Studio, Saturday and Sunday, April 13-14, 2013 – 11 am – 5 pm.

Saturday night while relaxing after the market, I caught this picture of a slim crescent of moon setting just after sunset.

The studio is complete!  It has actually been complete for a few weeks now but I’ve been busy getting moved in and am just now getting around to posting a few pictures. Last weekend I held a little open studio celebration so that the neighbors could see what we’ve been up to and a number of my pottery friends came by as well to see what I’d been talking about for so many months!  It was a good excuse to meet  some of our neighbors as we just celebrated our first full year in the house.  And I enjoyed showing the studio to and visiting with the friends I met while taking pottery classes (Northwest Clay Center, Tuscon Museum of Art ) and going to local shows. And now to share the studio with you!

Drum roll please! Presenting the finished studio from the outside:

From the inside:

Thanks to Eric Lara ( Lara Custom Home Builders ) for the quality of the construction.  And thanks to Tom Kirschener of Envision Corporation for the very workable design. Between the two of them the studio fits right in with the existing house and exceeds all of my expectations. Next step, the gas kiln but in the meantime, I’m ready to start throwing pots!

I leave you with a view from the Sweetwater trail of the Catalina Mts.

Last we left the studio project, we were waiting for the rain and snow to pass so that the pad could be poured. So after a one day delay to Tuesday of last week, the pad got poured and was left to cure so that framing for the new studio could begin as planned this week on Monday.

It was exciting to see the first wall go up and even more exciting to see the progress made in just one day.

And by Monday afternoon it was beginning to look like a building!

By late Tuesday, the framing was done.

And I could get a feeling for what it will be like from the inside looking out!

Today the sheathing is going up  – just ran outside to snap this picture!

We had a bit of rain over the weekend, but this morning the sun appeared right on schedule. And with the sun, came the tractor and the beginnings of my new studio.  I’m looking forward to being able to walk across the courtyard and out the gate to throw pots soon.