What's New for the Summer of 2007

Sue has developed a new technique that we call "Naked Raku", if done correctly, Sue achieves a very smoothly polished form, with dark crackle and dots on white.  The piece shown here (upper left) she scratched the image of a cat into the glaze.

The pots above on the right have little dollops of slip attached when the pot is wet as if Sue was decorated a cake.

The large bowl on the left, Sue has incised into the piece to create a wonderful pattern.  The glaze breaks over the pattern with a lot of visual interest.

C.J. and Emily wanted fresh eggs and were willing to take on the task of raising chickens.

Emily and Sue doing the construction of the baby coop

They have five hens and three roosters, the photo shows a two day chick and then at one month.

In the AuSable Valley we now have an Organic Pig Farmer and we get all our pork from them now.  We have a baker who raises his own bees and hens and uses their wonderful ingredients in his baked goods, (I have to remember to place my birthday cake order) we have in the works an organic cheese factory and beef and goats fed with the organic hay that is being grown all locally.

To add to that will be our own eggs.

I've been painting, thinking, biking, hiking, web building and I have plans for more of the same
and hopefully two new books that I am presently writing.
I am also in rehearsal for, "Below the Belt", a play by Richard Dresser
which will be at the Recovery Lounge in Early October 2007.
Sue and I were part of a very big grant that the Lake Placid Center for the Arts wrote.  It was called World Drumming Initiative and gave 10 area schools $2,000 worth of Remo drums each.  We had a wonderful workshop with Portland Taiko (highlighted in the Spring 2007 Eating Art) and then in May we did 20 hours of workshops in five of the area schools and in the fall we will see the other five schools.

With everything else Sue managed to make some new silk pieces,
I photographed this one just before it went out the door.