Clay animals who tell a story

 Some wonderful critters in clay. I wish I could have taken this workshop. I would have Loved It!

 Tina Curry Empowers Students to tell Stories in Clay 

Penland workshops are special just because of the campus, and the staff who support all the activities, and the students, many of whom are work-study students. There are dorms also, but I don't know much about them. It would be a long drive from my house to Penland, and I stopped considering it being possible for these old bones many years ago. That would be to enable me to be a day -student, coming each day and going home again. 

I prefer to drive up with friends and visit the gallery and the pottery studio (when a class isn't going on.) It's always inspiring!

Interestingly enough, I'd just been looking out my window and had a hare very similar to this one sitting on the grass, doing nothing but looking. Then he took off, and again stopped to check out the scene. I haven't seen one here in quite a while. Maybe I need to look out my windows more!

Somehow he seems a bit skinny to me. Hope he found some good grass to munch, since he didn't seem interested in ours.

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Animals in art (and not art)

Saturday Critters usually has photos of animals and beautiful birds. I sometimes see little dogs walking along paths that I frequent, or ducks or geese on the lake. But this week I haven't been out and about as much. So I hope you'll forgive me for sharing some other kinds of animals.

National Geographic photo of a near escape.

Photo: Nermesh Thind 'Thirst'

Olga Esther (Spanish, born 1975) "Once upon a time there was a rabbit who was not a rabbit"

"Just bug me"...exhibition at Black Mountain Center for the Arts...featuring bugs and moths! 

Big Fiber Moth by Teresa Cote'

One of the bugs on display.

Cats in clown car.

A wall pillow with Monarch and milkweed, by myself.

You know I've been making dragons lately, and collecting a few that boggle my imagination!

Susan Seddon Boulet

Annie Montgomerie, British doll artist

Michael Grafton

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Today's quote:

There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite form in a molecule. Attempts to place different disciplines in different camps are revealed as artificial in the face of the unity of knowledge. All literate men are sustained by the philosopher, the historian, the political analyst, the economist, the scientist, the poet, the artisan, and the musician. 

-Glenn T. Seaborg, scientist, Nobel laureate (1912-1999)