Loose Leaf Notes

The show must go on!  Even though I’m  here in Massachusetts helping to care for my mother, the Sixteen Hands Fall Studio Tour is going on this weekend in Floyd, Virginia.  Because my Asheville Potter Son Josh is a member, one of the studio stops is at my house.  This is Josh’s guest artist Joey Sheehan, also from Asheville.

Hundreds of art lovers and collectors have poured in and out of my house, Josh’s childhood home, admiring the pots on display.  That is  master potters and 16 Hands founding members Rick Hensley and Silvie Granatelli chatting behind others who are standing in my living room where my couch used to be and drinking beer from the Asheville microbrewy where Josh works.

I asked my husband Joe to take some pictures for me, thinking it would be good to see what I’m missing, but after he posted these shots and others on Facebook, I only felt more sad that I wasn’t there to be a part of the event. 

Window shopping in what used to be my kitchen for some of Josh’s new wild clay tableware via the screen on my laptop, it feels surreal to know that by the time I get home and sit back on my couch again, the pottery will have vanished and every remnant of the fall tour will be a memory. 

Read the story I wrote for Clay Times Magazine about 16 Hands Mentoring a New Generation of Potters HERE.  Read about May’s Studio Tour HERE.