Holiday 2012 Vashon Island Art Studio Tour

Holiday 2012 Vashon Island Art Studio Tour

Two weekends, Dec 1-2 and 8-9, 10am-4pm each day

 Liz Lewis Pottery will be studio #7 on this season's Tour!

Earthenware dishes, bakeware and serving pieces of all shapes and colors (lots of the new red!)  Hot new raku pieces!

See the finished sea life mural created by the students here at Liz Lewis Pottery!

Liz's new owl series will be on display as part of the December miniature show at the Vashon Allied Arts Gallery which is #15 on the Art Tour. 

Check out the tour website with an interactive slide show of artists at work and a map of this free, self-guided tour.

www.VashonIslandArtStudioTour.com

www.VashonIslandArtStudioTour.com

The Vashon Island Art Studio Tour

The Vashon Art Tour is held twice a year—always on the first two weekends of December and the first two weekends of May.

For the last 30 years a consistent but fluid group of island artists have shared a commitment to developing the Tour as a cooperative and sustainable way to show and sell their work.  

On the Art Tour visitors will see extraordinary art exhibits put on by the artists themselves in a variety of venues -- studios, workshops, gardens, a yurt, an old auto repair shop, a restaurant, at least one hallway, and several established retail shops and galleries.  

Some studios will have demonstrations going on throughout the weekends.  Visitors can watch a Northwest Native carver at work, observe the art of Ukrainian egg decorating, blow their own glass ornaments, and see pottery wheel throwing demonstrations.  

Invite a friend, cross the water and enjoy a day or weekend of art on beautiful Vashon Island.  It's just a short ferry ride from West Seattle (Fauntleroy), Tacoma (Point Defiance), or Kitsap (Southworth), www.wsdot.wa.gov/ferries.  

2011 Summer Clay Camps

2011 Summer Clay Camps for kids and teens at Liz Lewis Pottery!!

Register for these camps at www.VashonAlliedArts.org.

Clay camps are way cool!

It's fun to come together as a group, share our knowledge, get our hands in the clay, use the tools, express our unique interests and observations through the clay.

This summer's themes:

Flower Power! for ages 4-5

A Dazzle of Zebras for ages 6-10

Tropical Breeze for ages 6-10

Mythical Creatures for ages 6-10

Archways, Alcoves and Facades: Teen Clay Intensive for ages 11-15

Older teens will be on board as teaching interns for the camps.

Adults interested in pottery classes, watch for offerings in the fall and winter/spring sessions.

For dates, prices and to enroll go to www.VashonAlliedArts.org

Winter/Spring 2011 : Highlights of a busy studio

Winter/Spring 2011 : Highlights of a busy studio

This winter/spring session in the studio has been hopping with over 60 pottery enthusiasts sharing the studio over the course of the season!

Penguin sculptures, crab tiles (on display at the Vashon Bookshop) and rock bowls with the preschoolers from the Barbie School…

a lovely afternoon in the studio with friends making sun plaques from multi colored stoneware clay bodies (on display in the Vashon Bookshop hallway)….

a high energy after-school kids class sculpting alligators, constructing dream houses and “sgraffito”-ing fish banks with great style (“sgraffito”: carving through one color to the color, or ground, below)…..

two full classes of adults and a teen class all working with earthenware clay this session and experimenting with various surface design techniques. Everyone has been very productive and enthusiastic, building slab boxes (on display at the Heron’s Nest for the month of April) many unique slump molded plates, and throwing pots on the wheels.….

The studio is full of color!!!

Holiday 2010 Vashon Island Art Studio Tour

Dec 4-5 and 11 12, 10am-4pm

Liz Lewis Pottery will be studio #11 on the Holiday Tour!

Check out our website,

www.VashonIslandArtStudioTour.com

for a map of this free, self-guided tour

As always, Liz will have a large inventory of festive dishes to enliven your table…pitchers and platters, baking dishes, teapots, bright bowls and canisters of all sizes. And, it’s always fun to see the new vases hot out of the raku kiln. And a few turtles too!

Liz's miniatures will be on display at the Blue Heron Gallery Miniature Show for the month of December!

We look forward to seeing you!

Check out our website,

www.VashonIslandArtStudioTour.com

for a map of this free, self-guided tour

The Vashon Art Tour is held twice a year—always on the first two weekends of December and the first two weekends of May.

For many local artists, the Art Tour is an important and consistent vehicle for presenting their latest body of work in a venue that is self determined and personal. The artists depend upon the local community to provide a sounding board and a direct market for their ongoing work.

For the public, the Art Tour provides a unique opportunity to share in the development of artists who we have seen grow over time…and, the chance to meet some artists who are new to the Vashon art scene…

The concept of selling art directly from the studio offers a fascinating and educational experience for visitors, who will be interested to see the artists’ tools and workspaces, and learn about the processes involved.

2010 Summer Clay Camps

2010 Summer Clay Camps for kids and teens at Liz Lewis Pottery!!

Register for these camps at www.VashonAlliedArts.org.

Clay camps are way cool!

It's fun to come together as a group, share our knowledge, get our hands in the clay, use the tools, express our unique interests and observations through the clay.

This summer's themes:

Hands on Clay! for ages 4-5

Large Animals of Africa! for ages 6-10

By the Seaside! for ages 6-10

Sunflower! for ages 6-10

The Wabi Sirit: Teen Clay Intensive for ages 11-15

Older teens will be on board as teaching interns for the camps.

Adults interested in pottery classes, watch for offerings in the fall and winter/spring.

For dates, prices and to enroll go to www.VashonAlliedArts.org.

HANDS ON CLAY!

“Do you still love clay?” asks a friend recently.

“Yes. Yes, I still do.”

This is an irresistible material. My hard working hands, often overworked these days, nonetheless can’t stay out of the stuff. The kids’ fingers are immediately there-- poking, pinching, making something…

We just got done making 91 ducks over at the fourth grade. This was a truly ambitious project requiring determination, cooperation, focus, hard work, humor and humility. We approached the material, sometimes awkwardly. We worked extra hard on the rough spots, smoothing and reinforcing as needed. We applied our knowledge of our subject, sought out new information, observed carefully and created original ways to express what we saw. We stretched slabs, coiled necks, pinchpotted heads, modeled beaks, added mohawks, painted carefully, sgrafitto-ed feathers, crafted unique touches into our sculptures. Dried them slowly. Handled them with care.

I think that we all pretty much fell in love with the ducks. And many of us will get together again to make something out of clay. It’s really good stuff.

Liz Lewis

-Thanks to Vashon Artists In the Schools