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Waterford Fair

81st American Crafts & Historic Homes Tour

Locations

Shaffer, Gary

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Gary Shaffer

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Clay

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Fine craft must begin with a solid command of the use of materials and processes, then combine with the artist’s creativity. The very first time I sat down at a potter’s wheel I felt this desire to achieve craftsmanship combined with vision. It is the magnet that draws me back again and again to clay, making vessels that express my sense of form, color, and style. I strive to communicate the sense of excitement and satisfaction I feel from all the processes of creating each piece. My work is functional cups, plates, bowls, ovenware, pitchers, jars, canisters, garden vessels, vases, and more. My traditional salt fired ware is made from high-fired stoneware clay and decorated with cobalt slip-trailed designs. It is fired to approximately 2400 degrees F. and is suitable for all food use.

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Waterford Landmark Artisan

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Mills, Maureen & Zoldak, Steven

Mills & Zoldak: Potters

ARTISAN-SEAL
Landmark Artisan

Clay

Continuing in the slip trailing traditions, Steve has developed a line of stoneware work that bridges Old World traditions with a contemporary sensibility. His functional and decorative forms have an elegant calligraphic style that is uniquely his own. From stately urns to serving platters, his inspirations come from a melding of cultures and a personal design aesthetic to create work that is beautiful to use and to look at.

SlipTrail.com

Eugene, Winton and Rosa

ARTISAN-SEAL
Landmark Artisan

Pottery By Eugene

Clay

Winton Eugene throws pottery on a wheel and decorates it, and Rosa Eugene glazes it. As two self-taught artists, pottery-making was a second career for both: Rosa Eugene was a nurse, and Winton Eugene had been a carpet installer and an army paratrooper during the Vietnam War—though he had always seen himself as an artist. In 1985 they retired to Cowpens, SC, where they continue to work and sell from their home studio today.

Working together as a single unit can be an artist’s nightmare, but for the Eugene’s it has proven to be the ultimate release of creativity. The collaborative effort of a husband and wife team has expanded their ability to see beyond their presence. To see the essence of shape, to capture its form at the moment of conception. To go beyond a simple idea and create a new and exciting possibility; to bend the rules and write new ones. Winton and Rosa can co-exist in a single idea and weave a web with varying potential—they refer to it as a meeting of minds in the same space, in the same place in time. They rely on their passions in the creative process. Winton loves design and function, Rosa is captured by shape and colors. These passions combine into a creative dance ending in a final product with balance and harmony. It starts with clay and ends with glaze, the design and shape are then tested by fire. The endless love of clay, the imagination and passions of creating will always make “Fire.”

Kid Friendly! Clay will be available to children to try making pinch bowls, frogs, mugs, turtles and worms, which will be demonstrated along with carving, etching and relief.

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Wychock, Karen

Times Gone By

Fiber/Textiles

Working over wooden molds, in the method of the Shakers, Wychock’s baskets are traditional in shape and materials. She weaves both Shaker reproductions in ash and traditional, utilitarian baskets of reed. Native hardwoods such as ash and oak are used to make the rims and handles, and all of the baskets are lashed using ash. Each basket takes on its own character as it is woven in a quadrifoil, twill or fancy lace pattern to appeal to both eye and touch.

KarenWychock.com