Small celadon vases

 Bright morning sun shows the translucent qualities of a celadon glaze.

 The darker blue that flows down from the rim is a different glaze.

 My mountain view is about to disappear for the next 5 months.

Looking downstairs, there are still some azaleas in bloom

Touring new Art Building at Eckerd College

My son, Tai Rogers, graduated from Eckerd College in 2001.  He has stayed in touch with Brian Ransom, who heads the ceramics department there...so we visited Brian.  First we met him at his home.

This is a harp...and no, it has nothing to do with his mouth, though the top is positioned so that it looks like it!

Brian is a talented musician as well as makes these beautiful instruments! The tub/base (sound board) is made of clay, with a skin strung across it.

Then Brian toured us around the new art building...

What a building...smoke stacks from kilns

The kiln room

Brian describes moving the kiln to this new studio...

Clay studio - glazing area

Clay Studio

The clay studio

Brian describes the sculpture studio

A campus on the water, lots of trees.

The chapel...

The printmaking room

A small exhibit in one of the galleries.

A wall listing of those who helped pay for this building.

Great shading of south facing windows...you stil have light, and the view, without the glare.

Looking out the art room windows

Tai and Arthur Skinner.

Drawing classroom

The "prop room" with great things for doing still life drawings/paintings.

Two art professors ironing out some details of plans...

On the road

From St. Augustine, FL

To Spartanburg SC...where I finally saw mountains of home again!

The wedding vase

To be used for the CELEBRATION.  My son helped design it,since the theme is black and white. He also liked the "mobius strips" or infinity symbols.

 Another requirement was that it be heavy enough to not be easily knocked over by a cat. No problem!

I think they liked it. The plan (for tonight) is to put the bridal bouquet into it for the reception.

Mary Caroline Richards, potter, writer

 Paulus Berensohn was interviewed on the video about M. C. Richards' life.

 We had a discussion group (a take-off from a reading group) which watched in 3 parts over 3 months, this wonderful video about MC.

Her "acting painting" for the camera when the video was being made.

Wikipedia says this about her life:
Mary Caroline Richards (July 13, 1916, Weiser, Idaho – September 10, 1999, Kimberton, Pennsylvania) was an American poet, potter, and writer best known for her book Centering: in Pottery, Poetry and the Person.^[1] Educated at Reed College, in Portland, Oregon, and at the University of California at Berkeley, she taught English at the Central Washington College of Education and the University of Chicago, but in 1945 became a faculty member of the experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina where she continued to teach until the end of the summer session in 1951.^[2] It was her teaching experience and growth as an artist while at Black Mountain College that prepared the foundation for most of her work in life, both as an educator and creator. Later in life, she discovered the work of Rudolf Steiner and lived the last part of her life at a Camphill Village in Kimberton, PA. In 1985, while living at the Kimberton Camphill Village she began teaching workshops with Matthew Fox at the University of Creation Spirituality in Oakland, CA during the winter months. Mary Caroline Richards died in 1999 in Kimberton, PA^;

I honored her in a blog Here.

I missed the last of the three reading/discussion groups, as well as the final part of the video.  It's alright, I'd already seen it several times.  Here's the link for "The Fire Within" film.