What's New
for Winter 2004-05

Sue has developed new designs and new glazes.  Together she has come up with a unique feeling of organic life in an inanimate object.

Of course their not totally inanimate because you can bake in the oven, microwave and of course dish washer safe.

Room is left on one side of the roll so that a converted metal hanger can pierce the bundle and serve as another type of hanger in the home made steamer.

Steamers are expensive and can run up to a thousand dollars, so Sue has developed this very effective technique of steaming her silks, using objects and materials that she has around the house.

Using a large canning pot she combines a piece of stove pipe and seals the connection with foil.
The roll of silks is lowered down the pipe and the hanger unit keeps the silks from entering
the boiling water.
The top of the pipe is sealed as tightly as possible and allowed to steam for over an hour.

Below are examples of Sue's Silks

Hurricane Mountain Pottery fires their wood kiln.
Paul and Barbara invited Sue and Terry to make pots to be fired in their wood kiln.

In a beautifully constructed post and beam shed is a two chamber wood fired kiln.  

On the left is the upper chamber used for salt firing and the photo above is the base of the chimney leaving the kiln.

Paul feeds the fire

Pit Fired Object Pierced by a Book

Terrance has won two juror awards for his pit fired series of clay vessels that also combine with book arts to make very unusual and highly original works of art.

Starting with a ¼" thick slab of clay, Terrance uses a template to cut out the pieces of, "Pit Fired Piece, Pierced by a Book".

When the piece is constructed but still in the 'leather hard' stage,
Terrance burnishes the clay till it's smooth and shiny.
After a bisque firing the piece will then be pitfired.

The Jay Entertainment and Music Society
is preparing to purchase as old firehouse right off the village green in Jay.  Click on the photo for a link to JemsGroup.Com
Terrance was a founder and the treasurer for 17 years, so he's right in the thick of this process.

Right now they are in the 'fundraising' stage, trying to raise enough to buy the building but also to create a 150 seat theater addition to the building.

The project is being called "JEMS Space", and the building will be used by the community for much the same way the village green is presently used, except for it being indoors.  JEMS will have the opportunity now to hold events throughout the year.

At the present time a general fundraising campaign is under way.  A mailer has been sent to over 600 local residents, a flyer insert has been mailed to 6,000 homes, corporations have been contacted and all politicians from local State Congress people to our Federal Senators.  Two grant writing companies are working for us trying to secure needed funding as well.

Fundraisers are being planned as well.  We are working on using the LPCA theater in Lake Placid for a production from the Brooklyn Family Theater, which has offered their services for free.  We are also working on settling on a date for a fundraiser at the High School Auditorium, and this will feature two very well known local bands.

There is an architect who's come on board and will serve us at half his usual fee.

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