Fragments of Unfortunate Pottery
One of the age old questions at Clayworks is what to do with leftover pottery. There will always be those projects where too many tiles were produced, pieces will always crack in the kiln or come out the wrong color, some pottery will inevitably meet concrete and break into bits. One of the best uses of pottery chards and seconds is funky garden art, and the Clayworks garden is full of it.
Scavenge in the Clayworks Garden!
The week before EAST is our biggest studio clean-up of the year. We unearth all kinds of things which we find too irregular for the gallery but too dear for the dumpster. This year, we’re leaving a lot of the misfit pottery pieces in place. We have numbered many of the suns, sconces, tiles, critters, masks, etc in the Clayworks garden so that visitors can hunt them down and bid on them.
At the end of EAST, the highest bidders for each piece can claim their finds. Keep your
eyes peeled as you wind around the mulch paths through fig trees, past baby onions, around the copper bison and down the tiled stairs, because some of the pottery hasn’t been moved in years and the plants, vines and soil have taken over!
Here’s your chance to rescue lost art. A broken garden sun half buried in the dirt under the shade of a tomato plant can bring charm and character to a Southwest garden. A bright green frog sitting forever poised to hop out of a pot of strawberries gives a garden a dynamic, lively feel. We hope you find something fun and affordable to cheer up your garden.
