What: We are so excited to welcome you to our home and catch up on the last year. Join us at our home in beautiful rural Minnesota and discover a wide array of pottery for purchase. We’ll have thousands of great pots by Host Potter Matt Krousey and Guest Potters Adam Gruetzmacher, Hironobu Nishitateno, Kip O’Krongly, Karin Kraemer, Catie Miller, and Chris Singewald. Fill your new mug with beer or coffee and your new plate with sweet and savory snacks. Then have a seat by the fire for lively conversation. If you would like a tour of the studio and new kiln Matt is always available. We hope your Fall is going well and can't wait to see you in October!
The sale takes place outdoors in a large yard.
Location: Our home and studio located at 2785 Stark Road, Harris, MN 55032
When: October 6, 7, 8
Friday Noon-6, Saturday 10-5, Sunday 10-4
Questions: Call or email Matt
320-232-9135 or mkrouseyceramics@gmail.com
DIRECTIONS TO FALL SALE from twin cities
2785 Stark Road Harris, MN 55032
Take Interstate 35 North to exit 152, (Harris Exit, Co. Rd. 10).
Go west (left) 3.25 miles(about 1/4 mile past Fish Lake) and look for sale signs.
The driveway is on the left (south side). If you get to the town of Stark you went 1/4 mile too far.
Participating Potters Information
Matthew Krousey
Matt sees himself as a modern day Regionalist working with clay. He makes pottery decorated with the landscapes, flora, and fauna of the native Midwest landscape. His hope is that the daily use and viewing of the work will be a gentle reminder to the public of the vanishing natural world around us.
Adam Gruetzmacher
Adam makes functional tableware using traditional wheel throwing and hand building techniques. Working this way allows for subtle variations to occur naturally over the arc of a making cycle; enabling him to consider each piece individually. With great respect for craftsmanship, Adam is interested in exploring the intersection of historical hand-making traditions and the aesthetic of mass production. He takes pride in making every-day objects that work well and are crafted with care and consideration.
Hironobu “Nishi” Nishitateno
His style is based on the simplicity and functionality of Japanese pottery, using natural materials and colors typical in nature. It is his belief that pottery should not be the center of attention on the dinner table. It should be simple and attractive, while discreetly adding to the delicious appearance of the food. Nishi strives to create pottery that resonates with him and brings out his inner peace. It is his hope that the natural simplicity of my pottery can bring the same peace to others.
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Kip O’Krongly
Through her ceramic work Kip enjoys the process of visually wrestling with contemporary issues on beautiful daily-use objects – creating functional art that by its very nature compels repeated scrutiny. She works with earthenware clay, slips, underglazes and sgraffito to create colorful pieces that offer a space for joyful daily reflection. Kip hopes with regular rotation of these pots through everyday moments, users will peel back the layers of her pots, open dialog with those who share their tables and explore how the present can influence our collective future.
Karin Kraemer
The Duluth Pottery is my studio and gallery in the Lincoln Park Crafts District of Duluth, Minnesota. I started as a biologist and glass-blower in college and blew glass for a few years. I wandered into clay around 30 years ago. Now, I make Maiolica functional and decorative pottery and tile.
I draw inspiration from nature, my garden, and scenes around me. I love color, and painting with a loose, expressive brush. I try to capture the energy in that painting to bring beauty to the day and the table. The pots are red earthenware, thrown and built, and fired once. They are dipped in my maiolica base glaze. Stains are brushed on the raw glaze, and fired in an oxidation firing.
Catie Miller
Catie Miller is a potter, illustrator, muralist, workshop instructor, and one-woman business while continuously cleaning a kitchen heavily used by two little growing boys. After earning her degrees {BS in Art Edu + BFA in Ceramics} from Minnesota State University Moorhead, she has become recognized for creating colorfully illustrated ceramics around the world.
She has a passion for drawing and printmaking processes that inform the surfaces of her clay works.
She was the cover artist of Pottery Making Illustrated for the Sept/Oct 2018 issue and has been featured in Ceramics Monthly along with several regional publications. Her artwork has been exhibited and collected around the world, and she continues to grow her art practice from ceramics to mural projects and public art collaborations.
Chris Singewald
Chris is a potter and teaching artist living in Minneapolis, MN. His stoneware pottery is fired to 2350 degrees Fahrenheat in soda kilns and wood kilns. The atmosphere from these firing processes interacts with the pieces form and volume, resulting in unique surface variation for each piece. Singewald wants his pieces to invite contemplation and curiosity while using his pots.
ALSO: On the same weekend Will Swanson and Janel Jacobson welcome guest potters Jeff Oestreich, Ernest Miller, Liz Pechacek, Nick DeVries, and Carolina Niebres to their Annual Fall Show.
VISIT: www.sunnrisemnpottery.com for more details.