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Serving It Up: Just Desserts!"
exhibit opens


Whether it's your signature recipe or a simple scoop or two of ice cream, make your dessert a special occasion with delightful ceramic serving ware. "Serving It Up: Just Desserts!", a juried exhibit of dessert ware by Michigan potters, runs from March 2 to April 8, 2012, at Yourist Studio Gallery.

The exhibit officially opens with an artist reception and dessert tasting on Friday, March 9, 2012, from 6 to
9 pm.

 

The show features a variety of inspired ceramic dessert ware from ice cream bowls to tea and coffee cups by artists Nancy Bulkley, Renee Baxter, Darcy Bowden, Joanne Daniels, Trish Early, Marilyn Edington, Sarah Gelsanliter, Oksana Linda, Brigitte Lang, Inge Merlin, Anny Unbehaun, Julie Walther, and Kay Yourist. A selection of fun and funky handmade aprons by Darcy Bowden will also be on display.

 

Come and learn the art of serving your desserts with the same flair and attention you put into creating them. And for some yummy dessert ideas, check out allrecipes.com, myrecipes.com, and foodnetwork.com.

Images from the exhibition
    Kay Yourist's cookie jarSusan Gelsanliter cup
Work on display (from left to right) by Renee Baxter,
Kay Yourist, and Sarah Gelsanliter.
The images on the right are also from the show.
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Ready, set, spiiiiiiiiiin

We've set the date: the Great Top Spin-Off will take place at the Yourist Studio Gallery on Saturday, June 2, 2012, at high noon. The Spin-Off is open to everyone regardless of age or experience with ceramics, making it an ideal activity for the whole family. All you need to participate is a ceramic top of your own design and making.* The contestant who can keep a top spinning the longest wins the championship.

Tops by Kay Yourist
Tops by Kay Yourist
Jumpstart your top construction by signing up for Yourist Studio Gallery's special top-making workshop on Sunday, April 22, 2012, from 1 to 3 pm. Cost is $20.00 per participant and includes instruction, materials, glazing, and firing. For details or to register for the workshop, call Yourist Studio Gallery
at 734-662-4914.

*The fine print: your top must be glazed and fired (no tops made of raw clay allowed).
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Sarah Gelsanliter teaches
advanced class

 

As a person who absolutely loves to throw, Sarah Gelsanliter says, "I like having the chance to share all the techniques I've learned over the years and then seeing people adapt those techniques to their
own work."

 

Sarah Gelsanliter at the wheel
Sarah Gelsanliter
at work
 

Happily for us, she instructs the Advanced Pottery Class (Wednesday, 6:30 to 9 pm). Sarah's curiosity and excitement with glazing, firing and throwing enrich class, making it a favorite destination for students.

 

The last 20 years developed her love and expertise in clay-from visiting pottery studios in Japan while teaching English there for a year, to apprenticing for a wood-firing potter, to being teaching assistant for a ceramics professor. She spent 10 years as a production potter at Greenfield Village. Now besides teaching, she has started a pottery and tile business with her husband Thomas, blending her thrown work with his background as a tilemaker and-importantly-giving her a chance to stay home with her two little girls. We're grateful she's chosen to add Yourist Studio Gallery to her list!

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 Oldest pottery in the world?

How long ago do you think people began making pottery? 5,000 years ago? 10,000? Well, if you guessed 15,000 to 18,000 years ago, you're right on the nose.

According to ScienceNOW, researchers in China have found "ceramic remains in a cave in China's Hunan province that are from 15,400 to 18,300 years old. That's at least 1000 years earlier than other pottery fragments from the same region, which were previously thought to be the oldest in the world." Dessert
ware, maybe?

To learn more, read this article in Science Magazine.
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Nancy Bulkley's dessert plate
Dessert plate by Nancy Bulkley

Joanne Daniel's chip bowl
Chip bowl by
Joanne Daniels

Marilyn Edington's bowl
Dessert bowl by
Marilyn Edington 

Anny Unbehaun's tray
Dessert tray by
Anny Unbehaun 
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Studio calendar 


Spring workshops

March 25
Glaze Application Technique:
Deb Oliva.  

April 20-21

Exploring the Human Figure in Clay:

Norma Penchansky Glasser
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Upcoming classes
 

 
March 5
Beginning/Continuing Wheel Throwing with Kay Yourist. Mondays, 7:30 to 9:30 pm. 
 
Kids Clay Class with Nancy Bulkley. Mondays, 4:30 to 5:30 pm.

March 8
Beginning/Continuing Wheel Throwing with Inge Merlin. Thursdays, 12:30 to
2:30 pm. 

Beginning/Continuing Wheel Throwing with Nancy Bulkley. Thursdays, 7:00 to 9:00 pm. 

  

March 10 
Coffee & Clay  Saturdays, 9:30 to 11:30 am.

Kids and Adults Clay Class. Fridays, 10 to 10:50 am.

See our class schedule
for details.


New classes start in April. We'll have more information about them in the upcoming issue of this newsletter.     
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A potter's hands at work

Yourist Studio Gallery 

Inspiring classes and workshops for new and experienced students
 
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studio workspace
 
 
Comprehensive selection of pottery tools for sale 
 
Gallery exhibiting
the works of
celebrated artists
 

1133 Broadway
Ann Arbor, MI
734.662.4914
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