Tablefuls of artisan pottery and gifts are among the offerings at the Kiln Club Holiday Sale, with clay art to dress Thanksgiving spreads and address upcoming seasonal shopping.
Harried holidays around the corner, tables and trees await handmade ceramic surprises for smart earlybird shoppers, no gullible turkeys are they.
Meet local potters and shop quality one-of-a-kind wares from over a dozen artists. Functional stoneware and porcelain pottery is handmade with vivid glassy glazes, stunning forms and functionality from kitchen to table.
Personal touches including handpainting and glazing make pottery an artful gift. Bowls scattered with Virginia dogwood, horses prance across a platter and birds flit and preen. Ceramic forms are contemplative, with lumbering forms of raku buffalo, two tones of clay swirled together in a vase and pieces with contemporary geometric silhouettes resulting in a bold statement.
Seasonal gift items of holiday ornaments and ceramic jewelry will be offered as well.
High-fire stoneware and porcelain tableware are durable, fired at an excess of 2000° F resulting in dishwasher, microwave and oven-safe versatility.
Many of the potters are juried members of the Torpedo Factory Art Center's Scope Gallery located at 105 North Union Street, Studio 19, Alexandria, Va. 22314. For further artist information call the Scope Gallery at 703-548-6288, visit www.torpedofactory.org/galleries/scope or visit www.kilnclubwdc.com
Sale is November 5-6, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., rain or shine, at Colvin Run Mill located at 10017 Colvin Run Rd. in Great Falls, Va. at the intersection of Colvin Run Rd. and Leesburg Pike (Rt. 7). Credit cards, checks, cash accepted.
Kiln Club is an organization of more than 90 Washington D.C. area artists working in the clay medium. Juried members exhibit themed shows every other month at the co-op run Scope Gallery in Alexandria's Torpedo Factory Art Center and members participate in sales in Bethesda, Md. in August and Great Falls, Va. in November.
