Alice Siegfried
Pottery
Now that I'm 80, I can say that I've spent over half my life working with, and challenged by, clay and my kiln. My first ceramics class was at the State University Old Main in a basement classroom converted from a bowling alley. Then the class moved to the newly constructed Fine Arts Building. In 1977 my husband built me a natural gas-fired catenary arch kiln in our garage. I was on my own to throw stoneware pots on my Randall wheel and fire them to 2381 degrees F. or Cone 10.
I sell my functional pots here and at the Butternut Gallery in Montrose, PA; my Annual Home Sale in May; the Altamont Old Songs Festival the end of June; the Cookies and Crafts Sale at the Oneonta Unitarian Universalist Church in December; and from my home.
I love throwing pots and the awe I still experience at the transformation of the fragile greenware clay: first by 1800 degrees F. heat to bisque ware, then by the 2381 degree F. firing to a finished product usable at the table and in dishwasher, microwave, oven. My intent is to make beautiful forms satisfying to the eye and hand. I love knowing that others' hands will now use pots I have created with my hands.
Alice Siegfried, Stoneware Potter, 67 Church Street, Oneonta,NY 13820
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