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League of NH Craftsmen’s Fair – Shop at the Fair and Art, Craft & Design exhibit

By naomilin on August 5, 2019 in

When:

August 3, 2019 @ 10:00 am – August 11, 2019 @ 5:00 pm

2019-08-03T10:00:00-04:00

2019-08-11T17:00:00-04:00

Where:

Mount Sunapee Reesort
MOUNT SUNAPEE RESORT 1398 ROUTE 103 NEWBURY
NH
03255

Cost:

$13-15, UNDER 12 FREE

Contact:

Sarah Nyhan

(603) 224-3375

The “Shop at the Fair”, a consignment tent right in the middle of the League of NH Craftsmen’s Fair has a display of my work that is available for sale until Sunday August 11th. You will find a wide selection of my colored clay pottery such as lamps, vases, trays, platters, butter dishes, cups and much more.

At the “Art, Craft & Design” exhibit, also in the middle of the League of NH Craftsmen’s Fair but up the hill, you will see two of my pieces that I pushed a bit beyond what I have done before. The teapot with the grapevine handle and two matching cups pictured below is one of them. The handle is attached to the teapot with finely twined brass wire and I think it is complimentary to the spirit of the teapot. The other is a berry bowl that is made by pinching, carving and shaping.

Of course in addition to my work there are 300 booths with high quality, mind-blowing crafts, demonstrations, workshops, food and music!

Vermont Crafts Council Open Studio Tour

Snow Farm Seconds Sale

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EVENTS

Artist Statement

I grew up with my mother's loom in our family's living room. Not many years later I ended up with clay carving tools and a rolling pin in my own ceramics studio. The pairings of work in this show exemplify the influences of my mother's work on me and have served as an opportunity to both grow creatively and to honor my mother and her life's work.

Lore Kadden Lindenfeld (1921 - 2010) emigrated from Germany to the U.S. in the late 1930s. She attended Black Mountain College in North Carolina in the 1940s and was a student of both Josef and Anni Albers. Inspired by the Alberses and the Bauhaus school tradition, she worked as a textile designer for the New York fashion industry followed by a career as a weaver, fiber collage artist and as a weaving and art history teacher on the college level.

I grew up hearing riveting stories of Black Mountain College, its avant-garde, experimental environment and brilliant, unique personalities. As well, I was exposed to many artists and craftspeople during my childhood and took my first pottery class with a friend of my mother's. I responded to the immediacy of clay more than what appeared to be the tedium of threading warps on a loom.

While working on a degree in ceramics from Boston University's Program in Artisanry, I discovered the Japanese technique, Nerikomi, of layering colored clays to create patterns. I have been captivated by exploring many ways of working with colored clay ever since. I have also come to realize that my method of working with clay - the sense of movement, abstract graphic quality, nature-themed imagery and vivid color - echoes my mother's textiles. In designing work for this show, I was first more drawn to my mother's fiber collage work than her weavings, as a closer match for my own techniques and sensibilities. I later saw that the way I carve into the layers in two directions appear as woven fabric.

It was both fascinating and challenging to interpret a two-dimensional medium within a three-dimensional realm; to not just reproduce my mother's ideas and imagery but to draw inspiration and design the pieces as my own. My hope is that my ceramics, while paying homage to my mother, stand on their own just as her fiber works do.