Ceramics

 

 Ron & Cynthia Tschudy
3245 Six Mile Lake Road
East Jordan, MI 49727
Phone: 231.544.6167

 

 

 

 

ARTIST INFORMATION
Living and working in rural Antrim County, Michigan, Cynthia and Ron Tschudy have been creating pottery for over thirty years. In 1976 they moved to northern Michigan after Cynthia had completed her MFA in ceramics at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. Both began teaching in public schools, Ron in Bellaire and Cynthia in Elk Rapids. Cynthia continued to teach in Elk Rapids until 2007. She taught art in both Lakeland and Mill Creek Elementary Schools  and in 1998 transferred to Cherry land Middle School and the High School. Working with the Elk Rapids children and watching them mature into young creative artists was a wonderful experience, Cynthia often said she had the best job in the entire school system.

In 1979 Ron left his teaching job and began creating pottery full time. All of the work was slab-built and in the early days of the business Cynthia airbrushed and drew images onto the pieces. The images were mostly based on plants and flowers native to this area. In later years the work was still slab-built and based on nature, but the images were created by pressing clay into hand carved press molds. After Cynthia's retirement in 2007 the work took on another style:  it is still slab built, but the pieces are formed using slabs that are much softer. This creates pieces that have gentle folds and are almost cloth-like in their appearance. Decoration on these pieces is created by using laces, crocheted trim and some leaves and stems of plants. The pieces are glazed and fired to  cone 5-6. All glazes are lead free and food safe.

Both Ron and Cynthia feel incredibly fortunate to work at home in this beautiful countryside setting making decorative and functional stoneware pottery.
 

 
ART FAIRS / 2010
  
  • June 19: Bellaire Art Fair, Bellaire, MI
  • June 26: Art Rapids Art Fair, in Elk Rapids, MI
  • July 10: Cheboygan Art Fair at the Cheboygan, MI, hockey rink
  • July 17: Petoskey Art Fair in the downtown park
  • July 28: Congregational Summer Assembly art fair outside of  Frankfort, MI
  • July  31: Traverse City ArtCenter art fair at NMC campus, Traverse City, MI
  • August 7-8: Portside Art Fair in East Jordan, MI
  • August 14: Charlevoix Waterfront Art Fair, Charlevoix, MI
  • August 21: Downtown Traverse City Art Fair
  • August 28: Alden Depot Summer Art Fair, Alden, MI

 

ARTIST'S WORK

 

Basket
26" h  x 16"w

 

Platter
3" h  x 12" w

 

Teapot
9" h  x 11" w

Pitcher
Approx. 9" h x 6" w

 

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