The Museum of Early Trades and Crafts -METC, for short- is located in Madison, NJ, 25 minutes from my studio in Hillside.
The museums's current exhibition is about New Jersey's history of clay mining (there are tons of clay under our feet here) and small private pottery industries, which existed during the previous couple of centuries. Architectural ceramics was produced for the new, tall NYC buildings in the early 1900s.
Nowadays, clay in NJ is mostly about studio potters instead. So METC invited me and Jane Biron, members of the NJ Potters Guild, to represent some contemporary ceramics in this exhibition.
Mimi Stadler (right) and Kristin Lapos, Curator at METC (Photo Mimi Stadler 2016)
In the case at METC (photo, Mimi Stadler 2016) My work starts from the raspberry colored jar and to its right; Jane Biron's the 4 pieces to the left.
At METC, a sampling of my pottery. (Photo, Mimi Stadler 2016)
Involvement in this project has been fun, and will go on being fun till December 31st, 2016, when the exhibit comes down.
NOTE: I'll be doing a hands-on class at METC on Sunday, October 9, from 1:30-2:30 p.m.. It will be a fun intro to my style of teaching. Go to http://www.metc.org/ for more! The calendar currently lists activities through September 9, but I'll watch it for you. You can check my FB page (Mimi Stadler Pottery) for updated information. Good times!