St Croix

Mother's Day weekend I am thrilled to be a part of the St. Croix Pottery tour.  Minnesotapotters.com  This sale is celebrating its 20th year, and the line up is inspiring.   The St. Croix pottery tour is the gold standard of pottery tours.  This is a chance for me to sell with some of my teachers and heros, and though I am established myself I still find it a thrill.

I will be selling work at Guillermo Cuellar's house in Shafer Minnesota.  18855  263rd Street Shafer, MN 55074, (651) 213-1073

I will be selling work along side Guillermo, Clary Illian, Jim Lorio, Dick Cooter, Delores Fortuna, Mike Norman and Steve Rolf.  

 

Sticks and Stoneware
In January I was asked to do a show with Nancy Mackenzie a fibre artist from Stillwater Minnesota.  Nancy is probably most known in our clay community through her husband Warren's fame.   I have long admired Nancy's work and I am honored to be exhibiting with her in a show at the Raymond Avenue Gallery in St. Paul.   The show is titled "Sticks and Stoneware: Organic Matters"  
 
I am posting some selected pieces for this special show at SimonLevin.com/raymond
The show will run May 11-June 29th and Nancy and I will be there for an Artist Reception May 11th from 6-8
Please come!
 
Address:
761 Raymond Avenue, St. Paul, MN, 55114
(651) 644 - 9200
 
Fulbright

I am honored to have been named as a Fulbright Scholar for 2012.  My family and I will travel to Southern Taiwan where I will be an artist in residence at Tainan National University for three months.  I built a kiln there back in 2009 and wanted to return ever since.  This time I will be able to bring my family.   

My goal is to work with the students to build an additional wood kiln and test, explore and develop use of local clays and materials.   

Ching-Yuan, Chang runs an amazing program there creating a truely multi national environment to enrich Taiwan's ceramic culture.  I am excited to have the opportunity to be a part of it.  Thank you Fulbright.
Mobile App

This winter my friend and web business partner Lloyd Cledwyn and I have been working on a Mobile app for SimonLevin.com. Here is the first generation and we have done some blue sky engineering for the second generation. Currently the App is available only in the Android market.  It is in the process of review for the Apple store, and will be available for iphone and ipad very soon.   

The app connects to my facebook updates, blog updates and calendar.  It also has a google map of all the brick and mortar galleries that carry my work.

The app is available in the Apple Store and the Android Market.

The coolest thing we have on here though is the image gallery of my work categorized by year.  Soon you will be able to use these images as wall paper for your mobile device.

Please send me any feedback you have.

-Simon

 

 

 

 

yunomi show

The most comprehensive cup show ever is coming March 23rd.

Akar is again hosting a huge show of great handleless cups called yunomis, and I am pleased to be on the invitation cover.   

In its fifth year of delighting potters and clay lovers alike, the Yunomi Invitational is one of our most diverse, colorful and entertaining shows to date. This year's show has 182 artists, 910 Yunomi, 1,800 photos, and as with any AKAR show, accompanying artist biographies, statements, and resumes are included. 

 

 

Raffle

 

I have been working with Studio Potter Magazine to develop a fund raising raffle.   If you are attending NCECA this year, and want a chance to win some great pottery and join in the siliness that abounds in my life, stop by the Artstream Trailer Gallery, say hello and purchase a ticket.  Daily drawings will be at 4:00pm

 

You have a rediculous opportunity to win.  There are at least 26 prizes to win.  If 1000 people enter and you buy 1 ticket you have about 1 in 40 chances to win.  Buy 2 tickets and now you have a 1 in 20 chance.   4 tickets..... 1 in 10 chances.   You  get the idea, and all your money goes to support a great magazine.   We all have fun, lots of people win and a Studio Potter keeps raising the bar!

 

 

I started this rumor that Christa Assad would be offering Hula-hoop lessons just to tease her a little.  It has snowballed nicely into the image to the left. Christa will also be offering a pot for the raffle but as you can see the lessons are the real prize.

Raffle Tickets
The drawings will be held at the Artstream Gallery in the ACT Theater at 4:00 p.m. PST on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. You must be present to select your favorite work if you win. But if you want to purchase tickets in advance, just click here. Each ticket is $5.00.

The Grand Raffle will be held during our 40th Celebration at 8:00 p.m PST. The Grand Raffle includes 4 items directly from The Studio Potter. Our editor Mary Barringer is donating one piece of her artwork and her editing service for a piece of your written work. She will work with the winner on a writing project of up to 3000 words, reading your work, providing feedback, making suggestions, and helping you find your voice. Allow at least a 1-month time frame. In addition, 2 winners of a full membership for 1 full year will be drawn, including the winners' choice of back issue. For these Grand Raffle prizes, you may buy your raffle tickets now and need not be present to win! SP will get in touch with you and provide shipping.

 

Featured Artist

I sent some of my newest work to Red Lodge Clay Center to start the year off as their featured artist of February.   Some of these pieces are really large and speak of primitive community.   I am pleased to show this work and I am excited to hear how folks respond.  

Reception February 3, 5-7 @ 123 S Broadway, Red Lodge, MT

Exhibition Posted Online February 6 @ 10 AM Mountain Time

You can call Red Lodge for more information:      406-446-3993

 

Holiday 2011
Our holiday sale starts tomorrow.  11 am - 4 pm here at the pottery.  But if you can't make it you can also see and purchase it all online.  We unloaded the train kiln on Wednesday and you will find the latest work by apprentices Mike Gesiakowski and Hannah Meredith.  This showing is the culmination of Mike's year-and-a-half long apprenticeship, he is now ready to leave the nest, spread his ceramic wings and plummet to the earth.   Each of us are selling through our etsy stores, and we are ready to ship out on Monday morning to reach you in time for Christmas or Hannukkah.  

 

Watershed Auction

Chris Gustin, a world class woodfire potter and sculptor, has done a huge amount of work, inviting great artists to place work in his anagama kiln. This is an inspiring cross section of American ceramics all fired in one kiln. Many of these artists don'ty usually woodfire. These pieces are now up for auction with the proceeds benefiting Watershed Center for the Ceramics Arts. Here is a chance to pick up some great work uniquely connected by the power of woodfiring. Kind of historic.

I have two bowls up for auction. 

Below are the list of participating artists.

You can see and purchase all the work here.

Dan Anderson
Linda Arbuckle
Chris Archer
Christa Assad
Victor Babu
John Balistreri
Charles Barmonde
Ben Bates
Marian Baker
Hayne Bayless
Bennett Bean
Mark Bell
Birdie Boone
George Bowes
Lucy Breslin
Cynthia Bringle
Laryy Bush
Linda Casbon
Doug Casebeer
Andrew Chanania
Linda Christianson
Bruce Dehnert
Harris Deller
Josh DeWeese
Jeremiah Donovan
Paul Dresang
Judith Duff

Lynn Duryea
Randy Edmonson
Adam Field
Susan Filley
Emily Free-Wilson
John Gill
John Glick
Angus Graham
Ryan Greenheck
Brett Grey
Tyler Gulden
Chris Gustin
Jason Hess
Benji Heu
David Hiltner
John Jessiman
Frances Johnson
Mark Johnson
Karen Karnes
Beth Kendall
Kathy King
Lucien Koonce
Jim Lawton
Simon Levin
Matt Long
Andrew Martin
Meira Mathison

Joe McCaffery
Ben Maier
Ron Meyers
Maureen Mills
Tim Mitchell
Bob Mogilnicki
Daniel Molyneux
John Mosler
Susan Reeder Moss
Dan Murphy
Steven Murphy
Ted Neal
Arlynn Nobel
Matt Nolen
Jill Oberman
Shawn O'Conner
David Orser
Jason Pacheco
Denise Pelletier
Pete Pinnell
Joe Pintz
Seth Rainville
Don Reitz
Steve Roberts
Angela Rose
Louise Rosenfield
Tim Rowan

Judith Salomon
JoAnn Schnabel
Brad Schwieger
Martha Sears
Bonnie Seeman
Nancy Selvin
Jeff Shapiro
Jane Shellenbarger
Chris Singewald
Gay Smith
Nancy Train Smith
Tom Spleth
Bryan Steinberg
Madhvi Subrahmanian
Phyllis Kudder Sullivan
Mara Superior
Jack Troy
Kurt Weiser
Matt West
Steve Wicklund
Tara Wilson
Matt Wilt
Lisa Floryshak-Windman
Paula Winokur
Robert Winokur
Adam Zayas
Arnie Zimmerman

 

Movember

Movember is over.  I am now clean shaven.  It was a fun event and some wonderous lip creations were sported by some brave souls.  But the goal was to raise money for Prostate Cancer research and the Livestrong foundation and we did it.   Through the efforts of our maker's movember team we raised over $1,100.   

Thank you, thank you to all who donated.  We appreciate it as do the folks at Movember.com you can check out our team's progress on Mobro.co/maker.

Ryan Strobel raised the most for our team, but through efforts from Michael Kline we easily broke $1,000 on the last day. 

 

 

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