What a great night

What a great night! We had 13 young artists and their families&friends for the exhibition, and people were impressed by students' beautiful works. Each students had a short "Gallery talk" time in front of people, and it should make them look more "artists". I proud of all students!

Avery Owen talked about her ladybug of her final project

Gracie talked about her violin

She worked on this really hard

Erin describes concepts of her works

Nice details! Erin

Chase already asked his parents to buy a potters wheel

Jessica really liked clay house project

Lily couldn't make the exhibition

Garner's next challenge would be a glass blowing!

Caley is from potters family and her works had really good details

Macenzi was always serious about all projects

Charlotte talked about the cup for her soccer team

I want to thank all students and families who joined this program. It was really successful and you are wonderful people. Also thank to Montgomery Fund for the financial support for this program. Thank to Jeff Dean from Dean and Martin Pottery for your generous time and effort for students, team STARworks for all your support, Santiago Ramirez for making clay and assisting class, Marla Coulthard for making this program possible from the scratch. Lastly, a big thanks to Takuro Shibata, the Director of STARworks Ceramics who did all unthankful tasks (dump trashes, clean up&set up studio, make glazes&under glazes, watch firing, take photos, paper works, send advertising, and even take&pick up our children to the daycare!). I couldn't have done anything without all your help and support.

Lastly, STARworks want to continue those educational programs as much as possible for area schools and students, and we need your support to make this more possible.

Hitomi Shibata

Clay Camp Exhibition will begin Tonight

I finished up all firings for the show, and also gallery set up & installation have done yesterday.
All works look so good and they are just waiting for artists & people.
This exhibition is open to public and please come to see our young artists' beautiful works at STARworks gallery. It will start at 5:30 pm tonight.

Just a sneak peek

Clay Camp Student Exhibition

STARworks will hold Clay Camp Student Exhibition at STARworks Gallery on July 15th (Fri), 5:30pm to 7:30. Come join us and see our young artists' beautiful work. Admission free, food and drinks will be served.

See more details here:
http://www.starworksnc.org/component/content/article/48-news/123-clay-camp-student-exhibition.html

Clay Camp was successful

STARworks Ceramics had Clay Camp with 14 students from June 20 to June 24, and there are lots of great works in the studio. They learned many techniques and worked really hard.

Here is the class details.
6/20 (Mon) Orientation, clay factory tour, gallery tour, pinch pot (vase), coil building (jar)
6/21 (Tue) Wheel Throwing introduction (Guest Artist: Jeff Dean, Seagrove) and  hand building (plate)
6/22 (Wed) Slab building (clay house), discussion of final project, homework
6/23 (Thur) Final project : Sculpture (combination of all technique learned)
6/24 (Fri) Painting for works, wrap-up, discussion for the clay camp show

Thank you for your participation and STARworks Ceramics are pleased everything went well. Pots are dried now, then will be fired in several weeks.

We also want to thank to:
Jeff Dean, Guest Artist
Wayne Shiver, Studio assistant
Team STARworks for all support
Montgomery Fund for financial support

Montgomery Herald

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Clay Camp at STARworks Ceramics

STARworks launches Summer Clay Camp

Kids can get their summer off to a creative start at the Summer Clay Camp at STARworks Center for Creative Enterprise in Star. The pottery camp for youth, 8 to 11 years old, will take place June 20-24, from 1 to 4p.m. each day.

“We have had a lot of requests to conduct a camp like this because pottery is such a popular traditional art of this region,” said instructor Hitomi Shibata. “We have designed the camp to give kids a real hands-on potter’s experience.”

Shibata is a seasoned instructor of youth. She has a Masters Degree in Education, Fine Arts and Crafts and has recently completed the residency program at the North Carolina Pottery Center in Seagrove.

During the one-week session, she will instruct students on basic pottery making and everyone will create a variety of functional ceramic pots.

“We will also have two guest artists from the Seagrove come in to conduct demonstrations and talk about how they developed their individual styles,” Shibata explained.

Each day’s instruction will build their skills, culminating on Friday with the creation of their final project. Over the three weeks following the camp, the students' work will be fired and their work will be put on display at STARworks Ceramics, along with a photo display that will highlight activities at the camp.

Then on July 15, STARworks Ceramics will host an artist exhibition so the young potters can show off their work to family and friends.

The fee for the full week, including materials and snacks, is $75, payable at time of registration. Deadline for registration is June and spaces are limited. Children are asked to bring an apron, if they have one, and a hand towel. Snacks will be served during the afternoon break.

To register for the camp, visit STARworks at 100 Russell Drive in Star or download a registration form from the website: www.starworksnc.org. To learn more, call (910)428-9001. Space is limited and the deadline for registering is June 8.

STARworks received support from the Montgomery County Community Foundation for this program.

Open House was successful

We had an Open House for Japan Earthquake/Tsunami Relief last Friday and many people came and  purchase pottery. Thank you very much for your kindness and efforts. 

We still open online and hope you can check it out.

http://web.mac.com/takurostar

Potters for Japan Earthquake/Tsunami Relief

Dear Friends,

As you know, the recent huge earthquake and tsunami in Japan created massive devastation, and many people have expressed a desire to help. STARworks Ceramics is hosting a special sale of donated ceramic and other artwork to help raise funds for relief efforts beginning with a special Open House on Friday, April 29 ( Fri.), 2011. The sale will continue online until May 20th (Fri.).

Here is how it will work:
Artwork will be photographed and exhibited at STARworks Ceramics supply shop and also online at http://web.mac.com/takurostar

On Friday, April 29 from 5:00pm to 7:00pm STARworks will have a special Open House with refreshments for viewing and purchasing the artwork. Guests will be able to go online to select relief organization websites, including the Red Cross, to make donations for the purchase price of the artwork. Purchases may also be made to relief organizations by check made out directly to the relief organization. All proceeds go directly to the relief organization.

You may purchase pieces online by donating the purchase amount via credit card or check to the Red Cross or other organizations providing relief services to Japan. When you provide a copy of the receipt for your donation, you may pick up your piece at STARworks, or for an additional shipping charge, we will ship directly to you.

All the artwork has been donated. No commissions are being paid, and all the hard costs for the event are being provided by STARworks Ceramics.

You can help us in this effort by contributing artwork and helping to promote this event through Twitter, Facebook, your website or just telling your friends.

If you wish to help, please send or drop off your artwork to STARworks Ceramics by April 21st ( Thu. ) with info about your work (title, medium, value etc) and comment/statement to Japan.

Thank you,
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Takuro and Hitomi Shibata
STARworks Ceramics
P.O. Box 159
Star, NC 27356
Direct Phone: (910) 428-9007
fax: (910) 428-1001
takuro@starworksnc.org
http://www.starworksnc.org
http://starworksceramics.blogspot.com/
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Holiday Info

Here is STARworks Ceramics holiday information in the end of this year.

12/21(Tue) Open 10-4:30
12/22(Wed) Open 10-4:30 (the last day of service in 2010)　
12/23(Thur) - 1/3(Mon) Closed


We will be opened on 1/4(Tue) 10am as usual.

Thank you very very much for your business
and wish you have Happy Holidays!


STARworks Ceramics

Ornaments are ready!

STARworks Ceramics had a hands-on Xmas ornament workshop on Dec 3rd and participants made cute&beautiful ornaments. Thank you for joining and we hope those can make your Christmas tree look special than last year.