Once upon a time there was a little pottery shop that wanted to make it big, so the smart arty potters played with clay and created things itty bitty and insane, tiny and tremendous and monstrous and minute for all the people of the world to enjoy.
The Scope Gallery wise ones pushed and pulled the Great Clay with all-knowing hands and baked pieces in their magical ovens, offering them at the arty universe of the Torpedo Factory Art Center.
Out of the Ovens of Perfection (OOP-es) sprang giant glassy vases, lovely lilliputian sculpted animals, brightly painted platters. Irridescent raku pots came out without a crack. Mug handles were straight, teapots did not drip. Plates were as flat as flat could be.
All the potters and people sang a song of ceramic joy, "Come one, come all, come big, come small!" as they celebrated Children and the Arts (as part of the Virginia Commision for the Arts Minds Wide Open campaign) with a new show: "Large and Little." The Torpedo Factory Art Center overflowed with happy folks and was the center of creativity far and wide.
And the lil' gallery with its arty potters made it big and lived happily ever after.
The Ceramic Guild is an organization of over 40 juried Washington D.C. area artists working in the clay medium. Organization members exhibit themed shows every other month at the artist-run cooperative Scope Gallery in Alexandria's Torpedo Factory Art Center.
