October
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Sgrafitto workshops on October 18th and November 1st are still accepting students.
Oct. 11 - Harvest Fair - Historic Trappe - Free parking is available at St. Luke’s Fellowship Church, 200 W. Main Street (directly across from the Muhlenberg House). website
Oct. 25 & 26 - Holiday Fine Art & Craft Festival hosted by the Reading-Berks Guild of Craftsmen
held at Kutztown University's Micheal O'Pake Field House at the corner of Trexler Avenue and Baldy Street, Kutztown, PA 19530 website
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Welcome to my vision of Pennsylvania Redware.
I hand make this pottery using the tools and techniques of the Pennsylvania German potters.
Pottery is meant to be touched and you can feel the design scratched into the surface of my sgraffito pieces. My tulips, birds and hearts are inspired by Pennsylvania German folk art of all kinds. I use a rolling pin, molds for shaping the clay into plates and bowls, a coggle wheel to decorate the edges and handcrafted tin cookie cutters for the ornaments. The pieces are fired in an electric kiln rather than the traditional wood-fired kiln.
I am a Master Artisan with the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen and listed in the Directory of Traditional American Crafts presented by Early American Life magazine.
I teach the art of Redware in my Sgraffito workshops held at various locations. My students always amaze me - many are first-timers designing and then using the sgraffito technique to create their own work of art.
My favorite Pennsylvania German saying is "Lieben und Geliebt zu werden Ist die Gröst Freud auf Erden” Translation is "To love and be loved is the greatest joy on earth"
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*** The following locations have a selection of ornaments, plates and bowls for offer: ***
Ephrata Cloisters - 632 West Main Street, Ephrata Pa 17522
Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen - 335 N. Queen Street, Lancaster, PA 17603
Historic Bethlehem - 66 W. Church Street and the Grist Miller's House
* Pottery Classes / Workshops *
Learn about and make your own Pennsylvania German Redware
Learn the art of scratching on clay to create your special plate - a centuries-old technique the Pennsylvania German potters' used to decorate their fancy pieces of pottery.
I teach workshops at various locations in eastern Pennsylvania.
Some sites only offer 1 size ready-to-sgraffito plate at sign up - contact me if you wish to change/add plates - the additional cost is payable at the workshop.
October 18 - 7" or 10" Sgraffito Plate Workshop at the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsman, Lancaster, Pa Sign up!
November 1 - Sgraffito 7" Plate Workshop at the Grist Miller's House located in the Colonial Industrial Quarter, Bethlehem, Pa. Sign up
* Early American Life Magazine *
The site name has changed!! earlyamericanlifemagazine.com
The 2025 Directory of Traditional American Crafts
is now available in the September issue!
* The Studio *
The studio is located on the outskirts of Macungie, Pennsylvania
The original portion of this barely two-story house was built in the mid-1700's; before the American Revolution began and the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights were written.
