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<p class="MsoNormal">Pottery Raffle at the Woods Hole Public Library</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>The Woods
Hole Public Library is happy to announce a raffle of pottery donated by their
favorite Woods Hole potters. This has become an annual event gleefully anticipated
by fans of these generous potters: Anne Halpin, Ron Geering, Tessa Morgan , Ann
Newbury, and Hollis Engley (who, although his studio is in Hatchville, has been
claimed as one of Woods Hole’s own because of his many affiliations with the
community).</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>All of
these potters exhibited at the Woods
Hole Historical
Museum in a stunning
exhibit this past summer, and their fame reaches well beyond the borders of
Precinct 1. Ron, Hollis, and Tessa were included in a Cape-wide exhibit at the
Cape Museum of Art last spring, and Ron and Hollis have also been chosen to be
part of an exhibit marking the 25<sup>th</sup> anniversary at the Cahoon Museum
in Cotuit for the next two months. Ron has won national awards for his red-ware,
which is based on a colonial technique, with a modern quirky twist.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>These Woods
Hole potters are an accomplished lot, each specializing in his/her <span> </span>very different technique. Tessa Morgan’s work
is <span> </span>wheel-thrown white high fired clay,
decorated using sgraffito technique. Sgraffito is the art of carving through a
colored slip to the contrasting clay body beneath. After she forms her pots
on the wheel, she carves the surface away, leaving a raised design, usually
depicting animals. (After all, her business is called Flying Pig Pottery!) However,
her donation this year features a mermaid swimming around a shallow serving
bowl.. Ron Geering’s work is based on historical red-ware, evolved into a
unique contemporary folk-art, which must be seen to truly appreciate his wit. Ann
Newbury’s stoneware pieces are beautifully and solidly functional, blending <span> </span>art and craft into a useful piece. Her
donation<span> </span>is a platter of more than
eleven inches in diameter glazed in her signature blue. <span></span>Anne Halpin is influenced<span class="main"> by
early American and Oriental pottery working in stoneware and porcelain,
producing pieces of utilitarian beauty, often in a green reminiscent of celandon.
<span> </span></span>Hollis usually makes functional
work, also: “Good pots for good food”, as he likes to say. His pots are often
glazed with ash glazes made with wood ash gathered from friends’ woodstoves,
but he also uses glazes influenced by Japanese traditions, including a deep
brown temmoku and a variety of shinos.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span> Besides
being geographically bonded, this group is similar in all being avid borrowers
and members of the Woods Hole Public Library. This is the fifth year that they
have freely donated to this seasonal event.<span>
</span>Each year they all agree to contribute the same type of piece. One year
it was mugs; another it was plates; another it was pitchers. Last year it was
vases, and this year it will be serving pieces, which should be even more
attractive than usual as a raffle item.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>Raffle
tickets are available in the Woods Hole Public Library. Open hours are Monday
12-5:30 p.m., 7-9 p.m., Tuesday 3-5:30 p.m., Wednesdays 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. and
7-9 p.m., Thursdays and Fridays from 3-5 p.m., and Saturdays from noon to 5:30
p.m.. For more information call the Library at 508-548-8961, or visit the
website at www.woodsholepubliclibrary.org.</p>
<br>
<br>
<p>Jennifer S. Gaines<br>
Woods Hole Public Library<br>
Woods Hole, MA 02543<br>
<br>
508-548-8961<br>
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