The photo doesn't do this piece justice. It's a gorgeous, small, wood-fired tumbler by Richard Bresnahan, the director of the pottery program at St. John's University.
We found this bowl by Tara Wilson in the Northern Clay Center gallery and brought it home along with this pair of earrings by Tricia Schmidt.
At Dock 6 Pottery, we picked up these four pieces. The mug and octopus plate had the mark "MAIA" on them and the plates are from an unnamed artist. (The plates are my favorite pieces that we picked up on this trip.)
That last plate in particular, I had to have. I knew that if I walked out of there without it, I would still be thinking about it ten years later, so I just went ahead and bought it.
That bowl came from Evla gallery and we bought it because of the glaze. It's orange gold and goes a very deep gray in some places. The photo definitely doesn't capture it's appeal.
That mug we picked up from a youngish potter at the arts and crafts fair in Eagan. I can't recall his name, but he had a small selection of wood-fired things, very nice some of it, and this was the piece we brought home.
We also picked up one other piece, a small pendant that used a mocha diffusion techniques that is not very common these days. (Mocha diffusion uses a highly concentrated solution of tobacco juice (or another acidic liquid) that diffuses in very interesting ways when applied to wet clay slip.) The potter we bought the pendant from had pieces other than pendants, but they weren't particularly skillfully crafted, so I didn't want to invest in a larger piece.
So that was it. It seemed like we should have brought back more, but we were worried about having to carry it home on the plane. As it was, we ended up having to buy another carry-on bag to pack it into. Next time, we'll pick up a few more pieces, I'm sure.
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