If you need a sweet gift for your sweetie today, there are lots of local shops that are carrying Art Hearts!
Swing into The Homeless Garden Project Downtown Store, The Santa Cruz Art League, Norrie’s Gifts at the UCSC Arboretum, The Bonny Doon Garden Company in the westside New Leaf, The Garden Company on Mission St or Ace’s Flowers in Aptos! Support your local businesses and pick out a handmade ceramic heart for the loves in your life!
Happy & Healthy Heart Day!
They are available at the Homeless Garden Project downtown store AND they will be available this weekend at the studio for the Valentine’s PopUp Saturday 12 – 6.
Pick one up for your sweetheart!
Join Us:
Earth Art Studio
2523 C Mission St Santa Cruz CA
Saturday February 10th from 12 – 6
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Artists:
Nora Dougherty with work.shop.- a mobile gallery | metaphoric jewelry. quality stick and stones.
Kachina Schoos of Field Notes Farm & Studio | artisanal handmade soaps. all natural- all the time.
Jenni Ward of Earth Art Studio | ceramic sculpture for the home & heart.
make a valentine, toast marshmallows by the fire, join us!
Mission Industrial Art Studios
2523 C Mission St
westside of Santa Cruz, just off Swift St.
Hey Guess What?!?
It’s FREE SHIPPING FEBRUARY!!!
Use offer code lovefreeshipping at check out all month long for free shipping on all artwork in the online shop. This only happens once a year, so pick out something for your sweetie or yourself and the shipping’s on me!
Offer is only good online, US only from Feb 1 – 28th 2018
If you missed the opening of Take Aways, here’s a teaser walk through of the exhibit. You’ll feel like your almost really there! Lots of artwork in this video has already been sold, so get down to the gallery and pick out some for yourself before their all gone!
I’ve been working on an installation of my Rock Candy Series for my upcoming solo show at the Grants Pass Museum of Art and thought I’d share a little video of the process. I made 100+ of these rocks, glazed them in a variety of bright colors and they will be installed in a ribbon of them wrapping around a wall in a section of the gallery interspersed with photos of them as they were installed ‘in the field’ at Joshua Tree National Park. I love how they start out as these lumpy potato shapes and end up angular and sharp – they’re just begging to be touched!
I wanted to share with you an article by Casey Lesser of Artsy called ‘Why Ceramic Artists Are So Good at Dealing with Failure’, this article rang so true with me and I’m sure with so many other clay artists.
A long time ago, I wrote a blog post about a studio shelf filled with finished work falling down spontaneously and taking out all the work I’d placed on it along with everything on the table below that it fell on- that happened about 2 weeks before an Open Studio event. I’ve also had instances where I pulled a beautiful piece out of the kiln, placed it carefully on the table and then promptly caught my jacket on the edge of the table, making the piece wobble and fall right off onto the floor. Not to mention all the explosions, cracks, glaze failures and everything else that can go wrong with ceramics.
I think it’s important to share the failures as well as the successes in the process of making art. And the potential for everything to go wrong in the process of working with clay makes for a love/hate relationship for sure but I think that’s exactly what keeps me coming back to it.