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Everyone is welcome, bring friends!
Do you want to host or demo for a clay club in 2024? Reply to this email and let’s get you on the calendar!
For new fellow clay lovers, there is no registration or fee to be a part of Clay Club or attend a monthly meeting. You can just show up! |
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Hello Clay Clubbers,
Here are the details for this month’s Clay Club:
When: Saturday, May 11th, 11 AM - 1 PM
Who: Double Island Studio with Liz Summerfield & Susan Feagin
Where: 2459 Double Island Rd Green Mountain, NC 28740
Topic: Tour the studio, Potluck at the picnic tables and a demo with Susan Feagin
Food: Potluck, bring food or drink to share.
Parking: Easily accessible and located off of a paved road with ample parking in private lot. |
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Meet Double Island Studio
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Double Island Studio is owned and operated by artists Liz Zlot Summerfield and Scott Summerfield. They reside in Bakersville, North Carolina with their talented daughter, Roby Summerfield. Each share a passion for their craft which consists of ceramics, glass, and printmaking.
They started with a small grassroots dream of having a teaching space for themselves and quickly realized that they wanted to share the space with other talented instructors and students to provide high quality workshops.
Double Island Studio is conveniently located 15 minutes from Penland School of Craft and 50 minutes from Asheville. It encompasses a three acre property that was once home to a vermiculture composting business that they converted for their needs. It includes a spacious teaching studio which accommodates 10 hands-on participants, 2 artist in residence studios, an outdoor covered area for eating and relaxing, and a newly constructed tiny home (aka The Casita) available for rent to instructors and students or anyone visiting the area. |
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Last years May Clay Club at Double Island Studio |
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Susan Feagin earned a BFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She was a Core Fellow at the Penland School of Craft. She completed an MFA in ceramics at the University of Florida. She has been the Clay Studio Coordinator at Penland School since 2007.
“Ceramics, like a handwritten note or a worn book page, evokes memories and timelessness. The vessels I create are scrap paper collages created from suspended fragments of time represented by pieces of letters, hand-pulled prints, newspaper photos, and journal pages. These ceramic vessels reflect the intimacy and the comfort of my handmade journal and my sketchbook. Stoneware or porcelain slabs are draped and collaged together over molds. I try to work quickly. The forms are simple so as to contrast the busy surface and also to suggest immediate use. It appears as if the paper scraps have come to life and lifted themselves into an inviting shape, calling us to pause for a closer look.”
Susan will be teaching Printed Imagery on Clay September 14th, 2024 at Double Island Studio. |
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June: Swap Meet at Reems Creek Pottery : Saturday, 6/8 11 AM - 1 PM
* Note that May and June Clay Clubs will not be our usual 2nd Wednesday of the month evening time. * |
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