The KDD Fused Glass studio delights the eye with samples of items visitors could make.
When Kathi Dougherty opens the garage door of her Fort Collins home, guests are in for a treat.
Brightly colored glass sits on shelves and hangs from pegboards all around the walls. The designs, the shapes, the mix of colors give new meaning to the expression eye candy. This is the KDD Fused Glass studio, where Kathi works and shares her passion with others.
Chris Wolff of Fort Collins has made countless one-of-a-kind pieces of pottery over the years.
Have you ever wandered through an art fair or exhibit and marveled that there could be so many variations of a mug . . . or a pot . . . or a pitcher?
Besides their boundless imagination, artisans have an amazing number of down-to-earth choices for letting their creativity take form in clay.
My education in ceramics began unexpectedly on the Fort Collins Studio Tour late in June. If you read my post on August 6, you know about my visit with Susan Sternlieb, who showed me how a well-flattened slab of clay can slump to become a bowl.
Later on the tour I met three artisans who continued my education: Chris Wolff, Cindy O’Neill, and Heather Bartmann. Through them I began to grasp how many choices go into each one-of-a-kind ceramic piece. Continue reading
