Student pottery - and a peek out the window

Things are moving along with the expansion and the gallery is close to being ready for us.  We now have a view of the water from our expanded area!  I took the picture below from the new area.

We're at the end of another 6-week session of pottery classes and I wanted to share some interesting pieces that Mark unloaded from the kiln today:

These two vases were hand built, using two slabs of clay.  The student added some fun texture, gave them a bit of a bend and then attached them together with slip and more clay. 

Cute house that could be a bird house or a candle holder.  I love the glaze in that small bowl.

A nice size colander - the two glaze colors work really nicely together.

LOVE the black and white decorations on these pieces - all 3 made by different students.

Nice decorations and glaze colors on these mugs and vases.

Old Town Blues Festival

In celebration of the Old Town Blues Festival tomorrow, the window display is filled with blue pottery, glass and jewelry

A bit of history...

Throwing Mud Gallery is located in the Old Town Business District of Tacoma.

Old Town owes its name to the fact that it was the location of the earliest settlement by persons of European descent. Job Carr came from Iowa to Puget Sound in 1864. On Christmas Day 1864, he was fishing on Commencement Bay with some friends, when he saw the place he knew would be his home – low-bank waterfront property in what is now called Old Town, the birthplace of Tacoma (called "Tacobet" by the Puyallup Indians at that time). Job staked his claim and began to build Tacoma's first house, which he completed in 1865. A replica of his cabin is built a few hundred yards south of its original site. (The Job Carr Cabin Museum)

Carr staked a claim on land he hoped would be the terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad, and became mayor of what then was called Tacoma City. But Carr missed the mark slightly, and the rail line ended two miles east in what became "New Tacoma." Old Town was originally a community separate from what is now downtown Tacoma, sustained in the early days by fishing and lumber mills. "Old Tacoma" and "New Tacoma" merged into the City of Tacoma.