piggies!

(typical piggy by Gary Rith)
OK, 20 years ago I worked in a large open studio which had classes and potters doing other things and the rest. One potter taught children classes in how to make a piggy bank. She threw the body, then the kids finished the ears and feet etc. They gave me the idea to also make a bottle shape into a piggy bank, and I sell hundreds of them every year, looking like this one, in different colors.
My pal Nancy Boyce at Thou Art Gallery in Groton, NY has asked me to try to teach a class, and I thought of the pig idea. Mine are usually pretty simple, as pictured here, but for students I would show them how to get nutty with their pigs, and so, look below at my first personal piggy innovations in years: googly eyes and eyebrows. (video and picture) Students could also add names, polka dots, wings etc...
July 8 for making and July 15 for glazing, 6:30-7:30 pm, for adults, 35 dollars comprehensive fee for instruction, pig body and materials and glaze, limited to ten people, and filling up fast...