Girl Scouts made Face Jugs

A Girl Scouts group came to STARworks Ceramics on Jan 7 (Sat) and they made very cute face jugs in our Clay Studio. Jugs were dried, bisqued, glazed and fired and they look very good.

Thank you for coming to STARworks Ceramics!

Clay Houses went their own home

40 clay houses were delivered to Westmoore Elementary School on Tuesday, Jan 10, and they were lined up in multiple purpose room and waited for the artists. When students showed up in the room, they were surprised and smiled! All houses were taken home safely and made the artists happy, I hope!

Star Elementary 5th graders

The teacher, Ms. Linda Thompson brought her 5th grade students of Star Elementary School this morning, and they made "Clay house" in our clay studio. This clay house project was related to their year long research about their family roots and culture, and STARworks Ceramics prepared lots of clay slabs for this project.

Firstly, Santiago took them to STARworks clay factory and told where materials of our local clay mix come from, and also how we process clay. Then students watched demonstration how to make clay house by Okeeweemee clay and started building their house on a banding wheel. It was only one hour class but they did great job.

Those houses will be dried, bisqued and glaze fired in three weeks and return to them. Thank you for coming to clay studio and hope students had great time.

Thanks to:
Star Elementary School
Santiago Ramirez
Anne Partna

Montgomery Herald Article

Ms. Linda Beaulieu from Montgomery Herald (Troy, NC) came to STARworks and interviewed us and kids last summer, and she made a nice article about STARworks Ceramics on January 13 issue. Thanks Linda for supporting our educational program!

We would like to continue these kind of program for local kids. Your any support, donation, helpful information and suggestion are needed.

A letter from parents

A Happy New Year!

Thank you for supporting STARworks Ceramics and hope it's going to be a great year for everyone.

We received a nice letter from a person whose child took pottery making class at STARworks Ceramics last year, and we want to reference it because it's very good news.

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My oldest son and I made a visit to STARworks this summer with Communities in School. While there he made this great Pirate Jug that he was very proud of. He then entered it in the NC State Fair under the 4-H Division and won 2nd place with it. Donny said that he saw our picture on one of the boards that were set for display when he was doing the tour during the Annual Meeting. I thought you could let them know how well he enjoyed it and also how successful he was. I wish I had thought to take him back and do Christmas presents for people. Tell them that can be an angle for next year for them.

Thanks,

Lynn

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Congratulations! and we are so glad to hear it.

STARworks Ceramics want to continue these kind of hands-on pottery programs for local children for future. Your any support, donation, suggestion and helpful opinion are needed.

Students Pots unloaded

STARworks Ceramics had a school group on Nov 18th and they made small dish with our NC local clay. It's dried, bisqued, glazed and fired. Today we open the kiln and everything looks good.

STARworks Ceramics wants to continue these kind of hands-on pottery programs for local children for future. Your any support, donation, suggestion and helpful opinion are needed.

School Group Visit

STARworks welcomed a school group from Badin, NC this morning, and students had tour in Clay Factory, then made pots in the clay studio. Because it was very short time, they made small plates for candle holder by STARworks NC Local Clays. We will do firing their pots and return pots in mid December. They also had STARworks Garden tour and demonstration in STARworks Glass Lab after pottery class. We hope students enjoyed STARworks today. STARworks Ceramics wants to continue these kind of hands-on pottery programs for local children for future. Your any support, donation, suggestion and helpful opinion are needed.

Family Clay Class 8/14

We had "Summer Holidays Family Clay Class" this morning. We had small group than we thought, but they are very exited about making pots and they did great job. They made bowls, cups, face jugs, and tried wheel throwing a little bit. Thank you for taking part in this special summer class for local families.

We also had Ms. Linda Beaulieu from Montgomery Herald Newspaper and she interviewed participants about pottery making. She will write about art program at STARworks on Montgomery Herald Newspaper sometime soon.

STARworks Ceramics want to continue these kind of educational programs for local children for future. Your any support, donation, and helpful opinions are needed.

Many Face Jugs

We had Montgomery Summer School group in July and kids made nice Face Jugs in our clay studio. It's been dried out, bisqued, glazed, fired, and unloaded this morning. It came out pretty nice and now they are ready for pick up.

See Also:
Summer School Group Visit 1
Summer School Group Visit 2

STARworks Ceramics wants to continue these kind of programs for local children for future. Your any support, donation, suggestion and helpful opinions are needed.

Summer School Group Visit 2

STARworks Ceramisc had another group visit today and they also made a lot of nice face jugs in our clay studio. We also invited Ms. Linda Beaulieu from Montgomery Herald Newspaper and she interviewed kids about pottery making. We hope they had great time and experience.

Thank you, Linda!

STARworks Ceramics wants to continue these kind of programs for local children for future. Your any support, donation, and helpful opinions are needed.

Summer School Group Visit 1

STARworks host Montgomery County Summer School group visit today and tomorrow. They see Glass Blowing Demonstration, have Trail and Garden Tour, Biofuel plant tour, and pottery making class in our clay studio.

It's just short workshop, so we prepared small jug for everyone and they made "Face jug" which is this area tradition. Some kids had experiences of pottery making but mostly don't. They worked hard and enjoyed making small face jugs with STARworks Ceramics staff. Pots will be fired and returned in three weeks. We will have another group tomorrow. It's fun!

Lots of nice face jugs, and lots of smiles:)

Kids Art Class

We had a kids art class conjunction with Star Library in our studio today, and Mary Alice McDermott who lives in Moore County gave kids paper craft workshop. They did many different projects and enjoyed a lot.

Visit to Penland 3

We visited to Bandana Pottery (Michael Hunt and Naomi Dalglish). They are our friends and it's been a while since we met them last time. They are making lot of pots and try to be ready for Kiln Opening on July 18-19, 2009.

We talked about latest news to catch up, and showed photos of STArworks Ceramics. As you know they make their own clay from local materials by themselves, but they will try to use STARworks clay. Also they will give some clay samples to his friends in Bakersville area. Thanks Michael and Naomi.

Visit to Penland 2

The second day, we visited to Michael Kline's studio. He has a studio and kiln on top of the hill and it has very nice view. We should be very much familiar with mountains and hills in Japan, but somehow we forgot about it, so we were very surprised how high Penland area is located.
Michael was very exited about STARworks clay, and we hope he will have good results. He is going to give our clay samples to local potters around him. Very kind of you, Michael.

And this guy was really happy to get on Michael Kline's mower in front of his studio. He doesn't like long driving (by car), though.