The Cedar Lakes Craft Center located in Ripley, West Virginia was established in the mid 1970's. The Center offers weekend and week-long workshops in craft, art, music, cooking, gardening, nature studies, photography and writing for the professional artist and the hobbyist.

 

Gloria Gregorich, Crafts Coordinator

 

32nd Potter’s Gathering

Soda-Glazed Pottery Formed on the Wheel

February 10 – 12, 2012

Ruthanne Tudball

During the weekend, regional potters will share information concerned with the development of wheel-thrown pottery and design.

Participants will take part in group discussions and view slide presentations.

Ruthanne Tudball was born up in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in California, a short ride from the sea to the west and the Mojave Desert in the east. The primal connections to such physical elements as the mountains, sea and desert have formed her and been essential to the inspiration for making her pots. She moved to England to marry in 1968, where she discovered the lure of clay when handling handmade bowls in a Cardiff market. Before completing post-graduate study at Goldsmith’s College, London, she was mainly self-taught. She set up her own studio in 1978, combining potting with raising a family and teaching. Since 1989 she has worked as a full-time potter.

All of her work is thrown, manipulated, and assembled while fresh on the wheel to capture the soft organic quality of clay and preserve that softness in the finished piece.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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