Carol Smeraldo Pottery © 2011 All Rights reserved
Carol Smeraldo Pottery
Nova Scotia
Phone: 902- 434-1336
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By One Off Studio
CATALOGUE:
RAKU
Item numbers ending with “R”
RAKU
Item numbers ending with “R”
CATALOGUE:
“A SYMBOLIC JOURNEY” Item numbers starting with SJ and AG
“A SYMBOLIC JOURNEY” Item numbers starting with SJ and AG
CATALOGUE:
PORCELAIN AND TRANSLUCENT PORCELAIN Item numbers 1001 onward
PORCELAIN AND TRANSLUCENT PORCELAIN Item numbers 1001 onward
CATALOGUE:
PASTEL PAINTINGS
Item numbers starting with “P”
PASTEL PAINTINGS
Item numbers starting with “P”
CAROL’S STORY
Starting out as an elementary school teacher with a low voice, trying to sing with 6-8 year olds was less than ideal so with my art experience I traded my music sessions for other teachers’ art sessions. Having majored in painting at Rhode Island School of Design and education at Boston University, I was soon offered a job teaching art to kindergarten-grade 8 classes. My supervisor piled up my classroom with all kinds of craft supplies (this was the late 60’s after all) because other teachers didn’t know what to do with them! I thought I was in paradise until one day a kiln and bottles of glazes arrived. I decided that my fine art training certainly wasn’t enough to handle THIS situation so I went back to school nights at Massachusetts College of Art.
I took every craft course offered. Up until then I was certainly driven to create art but no one area really stood out until the fateful day when I started taking a pottery class. Ideas tumbled out like a waterfall and have never stopped. Too many ideas can cause a major log jam making it hard to know where to start. I have since learned how to feed and guide this unruly stream, some of the time.
After 2 years as a gallery curator and pottery teacher, my son was born and I moved to Nova Scotia, Canada where I set up One Off Studio in the basement (of course) of my home. I had a bonus, a picture window. My pottery business and classes grew throughout the 70’s and I moved my studio to the basement of my lakeside home. In 1979, I created and managed the Halifax Studio School of Pottery in a heritage building in the downtown heart of Halifax. With a view of Halifax Harbour not far away and room for workshops we hosted many internationally known potters. Paradise for sure!
As the school grew to maximum capacity with 3 other resident potters, my time in my own studio shrank. After 7 fabulous years another turn in the stream of my life appeared. My husband and I adopted 2 children, 4 and 5 years old. At first I looked after the younger children in the daytime and my husband took the evening shift while I worked at the pottery school until midnight or later. You can imagine how long that lasted! It took 8 months to build my new studio (see images on left) as an addition to our woodland, lakeside home.
After 2 years as a gallery curator and pottery teacher, my son was born and I moved to Nova Scotia, Canada where I set up One Off Studio in the basement (of course) of my home. I had a bonus, a picture window. My pottery business and classes grew throughout the 70’s and I moved my studio to the basement of my lakeside home. In 1979, I created and managed the Halifax Studio School of Pottery in a heritage building in the downtown heart of Halifax. With a view of Halifax Harbour not far away and room for workshops we hosted many internationally known potters. Paradise for sure!
As the school grew to maximum capacity with 3 other resident potters, my time in my own studio shrank. After 7 fabulous years another turn in the stream of my life appeared. My husband and I adopted 2 children, 4 and 5 years old. At first I looked after the younger children in the daytime and my husband took the evening shift while I worked at the pottery school until midnight or later. You can imagine how long that lasted! It took 8 months to build my new studio (see images on left) as an addition to our woodland, lakeside home.
Carol Smeraldo
Clay Artist
Potter
Painter
Educator
Clay Artist
Potter
Painter
Educator
One Off Studio, view from the lake
One Off Studio, below the deck
View from the deck on the Studio roof
Many craft markets, exhibitions, trade shows, employees, an international wholesale production business later, I have turned again to my most enduring passions, One Off (one of a kind) clay works for exhibitions and commissions, teaching, wheel throwing, hand building, painting and drawing. The three show series, “A Symbolic Journey in Porcelain” is an exciting long term search for the nature of creativity involving lots of travel, soul searching, connections with other artists and many other new experiences.
A unique project with internationally well known American potter, Steven Hill, exploring personal style has inspired deeper explorations starting with his recommendation to read Robert Piepenburg’s book, “The Creative Treasures of the Spirit”. The synchronicity of this project and book is amazing. It is another major influence in my search for understanding the creative cycle in my self, in those I teach and in all of us.
Our “8 MONTH JOURNEY” project started at Metchosin International Summer School of the Arts, Victoria, B.C. in 2007 and culminated with a group exhibition at Steven Hill Pottery, Center Street Clay, Sandwich, Illinois near Chicago in March 2008 and a 6 page spread in CERAMICS MONTHLY June 2008 issue. For more details follow the links in Classes and Links.
A unique project with internationally well known American potter, Steven Hill, exploring personal style has inspired deeper explorations starting with his recommendation to read Robert Piepenburg’s book, “The Creative Treasures of the Spirit”. The synchronicity of this project and book is amazing. It is another major influence in my search for understanding the creative cycle in my self, in those I teach and in all of us.
Our “8 MONTH JOURNEY” project started at Metchosin International Summer School of the Arts, Victoria, B.C. in 2007 and culminated with a group exhibition at Steven Hill Pottery, Center Street Clay, Sandwich, Illinois near Chicago in March 2008 and a 6 page spread in CERAMICS MONTHLY June 2008 issue. For more details follow the links in Classes and Links.
My story is continued under Pastel Painting
Conscience calls me to be myself.
To be myself begins with self knowledge.
Self knowledge begins with work on myself.
Work on myself is based on the sensation of myself.
Toward Awakening by Jean Vaysse
Be aware of Being in the present moment.
For more information Contact me.
For Resume click here.
Conscience calls me to be myself.
To be myself begins with self knowledge.
Self knowledge begins with work on myself.
Work on myself is based on the sensation of myself.
Toward Awakening by Jean Vaysse
Be aware of Being in the present moment.
For more information Contact me.
For Resume click here.
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