Stacy Snyder in her studio. "I would like to make pots to enter into a person’s life and to heighten an awareness of time and elevate an experience of place."
Arlington — Stacy Snyder, In Her Words
I am inspired by the landscapes and structures that have surrounded me during my life. I grew up in the mountains of southwest Virginia and have lived in the middle of a city. The silos, corncribs, wooden barns and rural structures that time has weathered and pulled influence my forms, spaces and the relationships of the pots to one another. I am fascinated by the water towers perched atop tall city buildings and the limited space that has forced the buildings to be more vertical. The glazing and patterns are derived from old tools, the bold lines of a plowed field or a weathering wall. Color brings each piece to life, beginning with the color of grass in the winter or the earth I remember playing with as a child and adding to it a cardinal or a redbud in bloom.
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*"Pottery on the Hill" Brings 15 of America's Most Accomplished Potters to
DC*
Unique Showcase a First for DC Area
October 26-28
D.C. Pottery Showcase Features Arlington Artist
Bright, patterned ceramic table platters, fanciful mugs and one-of-a-kind cups, unusually shaped cooking pots, and astonishing vases and whimsies will crowd Hill Center’s three-day Pottery on the Hill show, Oct. 26-28.
This year’s show will feature work from 15 of the finest, nationally-recognized ceramic artists, who hail from Massachusetts, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Virginia, and Maryland.
Potter Bob Briscoe of Harris, Minn., uses ash glaze to create beautiful, simple pots.
Arlington’s Stacy Snyder creates character and individuality in her fanciful salt and pepper sets in the shape of buildings.
Sam Taylor of Westhampton, Mass., uses a wood-fired kiln and salt-glazed finishes to create evocative images of nature on his pots.
Hill Center’s Pottery on the Hill is free and open to the public Saturday, Oct. 27 (10 a.m.-5 p.m.) and Sunday, Oct. 28 (noon-4 p.m.).
Louise Allison Cort, the Curator for Ceramics at the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, will deliver a free talk: “Pots and People” at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Saturday.
A special sneak peek of the show on Friday evening, Oct. 26, will give ticketholders the first chance to purchase pieces and speak with the artists. Tickets for the 6:30 to 9 p.m. cocktail party are $25. Reservations can be made at www.potteryonthehilldc.com or by calling Hill Center at 202-549-4172. Hill Center, a non-profit arts and cultural center, is located at 921 Pennsylvania Ave, SE in Washington, D.C., one block from the Eastern Market Metro Station.
Biographies of the 15 participating potters can be found at www.potteryonthehilldc.com along with photographs of their work and their thoughts on art and ceramics.