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Pottery and
enhanced photos on display at Bear’s Mill
“Art At the Mill” will feature teapots and other vessels created by The
Millrace Potters along with the mixed media photographic overlays
created by Celina resident Virginia Burroughs at their upcoming art
exhibit opening with an artists' reception at historic Bear's Mill on
Friday, October 7. Entitled “Autumn Brews,” the display in the Mill's
Clark Gallery will include leafy nature photography and clay vessels
for holding and serving tea and coffee. Sweet and savory finger food
plus drinks will be offered from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m.; the artists will
speak about their work, methods, and inspiration at 7 p.m. This event
is free and open to the public. The exhibit, on display during Mill
store hours, closes on Sunday, November 6.
According to Marti Goetz, Executive Director of Friends of Bear's Mill,
much excitement surrounds the unveiling of new work by the Millrace
Potters. “These artists have been creating beautiful functional and
decorative pieces for many years, and Mill customers are eagerly
awaiting the unveiling of their latest creations,” Ms. Goetz stated.
“Virginia Burroughs' fantastic art photography will wonderfully
complement the graceful shapes and interesting glazes of our ceramic
artists,” she concluded.
Teacher, writer, and artist Virginia Burroughs has overlaid her
photographs with photo segments and mixed media to help explore the
reality of the scenes and enhance impressions of natural phenomena.
“Various definitions of overlay include 'cover the surface with a
coating, lie on top of, become more prominent than' or 'something laid
as a covering over something else,'” Ms. Burroughs explained. “I like
to think that this series of Nature Overlays revisits precedents from
the past, but greatly revises them in my effort to share my impressions
of and responses to our natural surroundings with others,” the artist
concluded.
The Millrace Potters Collective, Julie Clark, Dionne Mayhew, Rita
Wiley, and Loretta Wray, are good friends who share technical
information, research, labor, and at times studios; this exhibition
created unique challengers to the artists, as teapots and coffee
serving vessels have many pieces and parts that require assembling.
However, by adhering to the ultimate goals of balance, function, art,
and design, each potter has created a series of unique and useful
pieces.
Julie Clark along with her husband Terry is the previous owner of
Bear's Mill; she continues to maintain a working studio in her barn
home adjacent to the Mill. Versailles resident Dionne Mayhew was once
the Mill's store manager, and creates her pottery in Julie's studio.
Current Indianapolis resident Rita Wiley has collaborated with Julie
for over 35 years, and will soon move to her new home just down the
road from the Mill. Troy, Ohio native Loretta Wray, who also once
managed the Mill store, lives and maintains a studio on a farm near New
Castle, Indiana, and often shares her studio and soda kiln with other
members of the Collective.
The figurative and functional porcelain vessels of award-winning
ceramic artist Kim Anderson and the colorful mixed media pieces of
Lynette Waters-Whitesell will remain on display at the Mill through
Sunday, October 2. Bear's Mill is open 11 a.m. till 5 p.m. Tuesdays
through Saturdays and 1 p.m. till 5 p.m. Sundays. Historic Bear's Mill
is owned and operated by Friends of Bear's Mill, a non-profit
organization, and is located at 6450 Arcanum-Bear's Mill Road about 5
miles east of Greenville. For more information, contact Bear's Mill at
937-548-5112 orwww.bearsmill.com.
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