It has been a whirlwind ninety days since finding my new studio/classroom/shop space. Thanks so very much to all the people who helped make my dream come true.
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Here is the Press Release from the opening:
FROGS COMING TO GRAND OPENING
June 15, 2013 at 9:52am
Press Release: June 13, 2013FROGS COMING TO GRAND OPENING
What is happening in the Village of North Canaan?
First an auction house… Then an antique center… New owners from Brooklyn of the bakery…
Now a pottery is going into a building that is sweetly remembered for all the flowers given at all those region one high school proms!
Could it be that the arts have found the town?
Not so fast. More likely it is about a few very astute property owners who have offered some very reasonable leases to some new and aspiring businesses. But whatever the reason the newest addition to the Village of North Canaan will be Funkware Pottery Studio, Classes & Gifts come July.
Ok, and maybe the arts have discovered the town...
While not giving up her small in-home studio on Trescott Hill Road, Funkware Pottery owner Joey Sage Jablonski has decided that now is the time to expand her pottery studio and class space while adding a large retail gifts space aswell in this former florist shop right next to the North Canaan Volunteer Fire Company.
This old florist shop was perfect with counters and shelves still installed, large areas for drying pots prior to glazing and even a rubber floor for easy cleaning. As Joey puts it, “The stars aligned, the rent was right, pottery orders were growing and I really needed more space to work and give classes. So I jumped in!”
Joey has never had the chance to operate a retail space before and is looking forward to “being out there”. While her claim to fame has been the "frog mug", she has primarily been selling these adorable mugs with a frog for the handle on a wholesale basis to gift shops throughout the country (most recently, Taos Blue in New Mexico).
Her frog mugs are an extremely popular item at the Mark Twain House shop where visitors take home a reminder of"The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". She is hoping the new pottery studio location with the gift shop will be a welcome attraction to local shoppers looking for handmade pottery to give as gifts. She hopes that the location at the junction of two major travel routes should also help bring new pottery lovers to stop at her door.
Joey Sage Jablonski has been designing, formulating glazes and making wheel thrown pottery and sculptural clay works since 1993. Located first in northeastern Connecticut where she started making pots after leaving a corporate career, she is now here in northwestern Connecticut. She started offering pottery classes over 17 years ago and has been sharing her experiences,expertise and her love of this ancient yet modern craft of making pottery with others through her friendly no-stress pottery classes ever since.
To Joey clay is a, “merging of form and spirit. Clay is the earth and imagination. The actual process of working in clay makes me feel as if I am touching the ground and touching the sky at the same time. I try to impart that feeling to others through my pottery and through my classes.”
Funkware Pottery will be having a grand opening celebration on July 6th from 10am until 6pm. With refreshments,snacks and music performed by area favorites Jim Palermo and Tom Hanford from 4-6pm.
Funkware Pottery Studio, Class space and Gift Shop are located in North Canaan,CT just east of the junction of Route 44 and Route 7 just a short drive from Torrington, Winsted, Salisbury, CT, Great Barrington, MA and Millerton, NY. Please call Joey at 860-933-1101 for more information.
More online at http://www.funkwarepottery.com.
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Palermo and Hanford offer an eclectic blend of music ranging from pop of the20s and 30s to traditional American folk and blues to unique covers of such classic artists as Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, The Everly Brothers, Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, James Taylor and John Prine. Tuneful originals are also part of the repertoire. Jim and Tom have been performing together for several years and their tasteful vocal harmonies and inspired instrumental interplay have won them many fans at private parties, community concerts, and such Litchfield County clubs, restaurants and coffeehouses as The Saltwater Grille, The Pantry,The Steam Vent, The Litchfield Inn, The Green House Cafe and The Red Lion in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Jim Palermo (vocals acoustic and electric guitars) has been performing from an early age. In the 1980s he was half of the popular Hartford based duo,Gopher Broke which toured colleges and clubs all over New England. In the 90shis band, The Rhythm, was a fixture of the Hartford club scene. Since then he has been well received as a solo artist at clubs and private parties around Connecticut.
Tom Hanford (vocal, violin, acoustic guitar and harmonicas) has been featured at such legendary Greenwich Village clubs as Folk City and The Village Gate. In recent years he has performed his family programs at festivals, historic site sand other venues throughout the northeast and toured in England and the U.S. with singer/songwriter, Kath Bloom.
For information:
Jim Palermo (860)361-9168 jimpalermomusic@gmail.com
Tom Hanford (860) 491-9223 T.H.Hanford@gmail.com
www.tomhookerhanford.com
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