2015 Holiday Sales

Heartfelt thanks to everyone who came to Open Studios and helped me raise funds for Nepal earthquake rebuilding.
Happy Thanksgiving!


Double Happiness Pottery will have 
two holiday events this year:


First, November 28, 2015,  the Saturday after Thanksgiving,
at the Moss Landing Arts & Crafts Holiday Gift Sale
with 20 other local artists & craftspeople
in the wonder-full and historic setting of 
Nancy Russell's Studio & Garden

10942 Pieri Court, Moss Landing
10am - 4pm

www.mlartscrafts.com


Second, 
the 6th Annual Double Happiness Pottery
Holiday Sale

the first weekend in December 5 - 6, 2015
 at

143 Mason Street, Santa Cruz
11am - 4pm

Small sculpture and functional ware


Fertility goddess, after Venus of Willendorf


Lotus plate

Please come visit during Open Studios 2015, and help Nepal rebuild!

Double Happiness Pottery
Wendy King, Artist # 56
143 Mason Street, Santa Cruz CA 95060

October 3-4, 2015
11am - 5pm

Open Studios Art Tour
Click for more info, or
Get the art tour guide free in Sept 30 Good Times Weekly
Nepali Mani Rimdu Dancing Lamas (Monks) 

All sale proceeds will be donated for rebuilding in Nepal.

I went to Nepal as a Peace Corps volunteer fresh out of college, and ended up living there for over two decades.  
Nepal is my heart country.

Please come see my new sculpture work, the "new faux" antiquity series, and my functional pottery for home & garden.

Preparing for Open Studios 2015 -- October 3-4 : SAVE THE DATES!

I will have my functional pottery : cups & bowls & vases, etc.  Additionally, I have started to Explore Sculpture -

- learning by copying the masters, the ancients:

After Venus of Willendorf



and Han Dynasty Masked Dancers.


And then I started to reach into my visual memories, from Nepal.  These are works in progress now -

Mother and Child.




Mani Rimdu Dancers and Lama Musicians

Come see us at the Japanese Cultural Fair - Saturday 6 June 2015



Double Happiness Pottery will have a booth at the Japanese Cultural Fair for the second year.  This is such a fun fair - I am looking forward to the day.  Come visit!

11am - 6pm in the Mission Plaza Park, 103 Emmett Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060.

Nepal is my heart country, I will donate 50% of my pottery sales to assist in Nepal earthquake relief and rebuilding, through the Chandra Gurung Conservation Trust.  Lots of pots!  I will have old favorites: berry colanders, sake sets, tea cups, tea bowls, and tea pots.  And I have some new small sculpture I've been working on - come see, come hold them.

I am pleased to say that this year's poster and tee-shirt design is my sumi-e painting!  I was extra motivated because I am a Wood Goat...  I made cards of the design that will be be for sale, with proceeds 100% going to the Japanese Cultural Fair.

The Japanese Cultural Fair is kindly supporting fundraising for Nepal relief and rebuilding, so we will have a table of Nepal handicrafts and other gift items. 100% of the sale proceeds will be donated to Nepal earthquake relief and rebuilding.

I am co-founder of the Chandra Gurung Conservation Trust (CGCT), an all volunteer 501(c)3 organization supporting Nepali student mentoring.  We are now fundraising for Nepal, and have been able to support early relief teams going out to villages near the first earthquake's epicenter in Gorkha District, and then expanding to other affected districts.  Monsoon is coming, there's a big push to get more people sheltered for the rainy season.  Namaste!
Double Happiness Pottery will be paired with Santa Cruz Mountain Vineyard 
for the 'black' Friday 28 November 
ART, WINE & GIFTS BAZAAR!!!  

Come enjoy the dozen local micro-boutique wineries and local artists at the 
Swift & Ingalls Streets hub in Santa Cruz's Westside
from noon to dusk.


Holiday Sale - Today!  Sunday 23 Nov 11am - 4pm
143 Mason Street, Santa Cruz CA 95060
831-421-1263

Thanks to everyone who came out in the glorious rains yesterday.  The sun is shining this morning, and we're looking forward to seeing you.
Here are a couple of my newest pots:  Orchid Pots!  
and there are plenty more pots and lovely gift items from Asia.

Hope to see you soon, and 
wishing you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving!



4th Annual Holiday Sale

Come celebrate the season and the glorious rains

November 22-23, 2014 
from 11am - 4pm

@ Double Happiness Pottery
143 Mason Street, Santa Cruz CA
831-421-1263


Please come browse for holiday gifts:  pottery,
"Fall Migration" fresh out of the kiln today!

and there are mugs, orchid pots, and all kinds of stocking stuffers.
There'll be a nice selection of Clearance Sale pots too.



And special gift items from Nepal, Bhutan and Burma.

A percentage of your purchases will be donated to support environmental management and mentoring in Nepal through the Chandra Gurung Conservation Trust.  Thank you!

Hope to raise a glass with you and celebrate the rains and everything else we are gifted with!

I'll be open during the next few weeks by appointment - 
please email: doublehapppinesspottery@gmail.com
 or
phone:  831-421-1263


2014 Open Studios is just around the corner



Double Happiness Pottery is  # 248 

in the new, improved 2014 OPEN STUDIOS guide
Come visit on October 11-12, 11am - 5pm
Westside Santa Cruz: 143 Mason Street
Facebook: Double Happiness Pottery

10% of my sales will be donated to our local
Senior Companion & Foster Grandparent Program
http://www.seniorscouncil.org/companion_program.html


I've been working on teapots:

 

And tweaked my Shell Bowl - 
making holes in it for air circulation and for easy rinsing, voila:
the Shell Fruit Bowl!

Spouted Mixing Bowl Set:

And wood-fired pots:
bud vases

tea cups


 Firing the wood-gas kiln at Dark Horse Pottery 
with Joel Magen and Drake Bialecki:


Five years working together, me and Drake as apprentices, Joel teaching us.  And now Drake is moving on to apprentice at the Leach Pottery in St. Ives, UK!  
Congratulations Drake!

Heartfelt thanks to Joel for sharing your knowledge and experience as a potter, and keeping pottery apprenticeships alive!











Come join Double Happiness Pottery celebrating

the 28th Annual 

Japanese Cultural Fair 

Mission Hill Plaza, 103 Emmet Street, Santa Cruz CA 95060

Saturday 7 June 11am-6pm


Double Happiness Pottery is Booth #18


Come see my newest 

Little KOI FISH BOWLS 


and I've been working on making teapots.  
TEA for TWO Sets

 and, a couple 
TEAPOTS with INFUSERS for loose tea leaves!

and Spouted Bowls

and Sake Sets, Yarn Ball Bowls, covered bowls and napkin rings!  
so many pots...

Come enjoy Japan right here in Santa Cruz,
with the Taiko drummers, other wonderful musicians, dancers, artists, delicious Japanese foods, etc.  






The Holiday Sale was a great success - many thanks to all who braved the chilly winds!  But there are still a few pots here...


Jade Greenware

Vases & Hanging Planters



Yarn Bowls

Rectangular Plates / Platters

and Sake Set and Extruded Vases/Containers


The shelves just before the sale started 








4th Annual Holiday Sale

Sat & Sun DEC 7-8 ,  11am to 4pm
143 Mason Street, Santa Cruz CA 95060

Please come share some holiday cheer and have fun shopping.  New pots are in the kiln now:  roasting pans, sake sets, yarn bowls, more lotus bowls, and more.

1st Clearance Sale
It's time now to clear out the old pots and make way for the new -- 
so there'll be good clearance sale deals.

From Nepal, For Nepal
Linking my past life in Nepal and present life in Santa Cruz, this sale will benefit the Chandra Gurung Conservation Trust http://chandragurungtrust.org.
Handcrafted warm slippers and 'lokta' paper notecards direct from Nepal,
and 10% sale proceeds will be donated for the mentorship program in Nepal.


My Pottery Mentors

My Pottery Mentors:
Joel Magen & George Dymesich

I am thrilled to participate in 2013 Open Studios for my second time.   I wanted to be a potter back in high school, but Mom convinced me to go to college first; she said I could do pottery later.  Three decades later: after college, a stint in Peace Corps/Nepal and a career in community development work in Asia, I am now pursuing my dream to be a potter.  

Thanks Mom & Dad!

And I've landed in Santa Cruz with its vibrant community of functional potters!  I reconnected with pottery, as so many in Santa Cruz have over the past three decades, through George Dymesich’s Santa Cruz Adult Education ceramics program.  After I completed all of George’s classes and workshops, he introduced me to Joel Magen.  I apprenticed with Joel at Santa Cruz Pottery and Dark Horse Pottery for three years. 

George and Joel were students of both Bruce Anderson and Al Johnsen, who in turn had both studied with Marguerite Wildenhain, from the Bauhaus tradition. In 1942, Marguerite fled from Nazi Germany to Pond Farm Pottery in Guerneville, California where Bruce was her first American student, and Al was her first Teaching Assistant. Al Johnsen went on to establish Big Creek Pottery and Scott Creek Pottery, taught ceramics at UCSC Cowell College, and continued the age-old tradition of apprenticeships, which Joel Magen carries on today.  

Thank you George and Joel 
for mentoring me and sharing the lineage’s knowledge and passion for pottery.

Drake Bialecki and I started our apprenticeships with Joel in September 2009.  Joel's taught us the steps to the intricate dance of producing handmade functional pottery in his three kilns, including a wood-gas combination kiln that's fired during the rainy winter season.  The days are already getting shorter, and we're happily anticipating the next round of firings!


Please come visit and see my newest pots during
Open Studios Art Tour

or cyberly on Facebook






Wendy King – Artist # 73
Double Happiness Pottery
143 Mason Street
(westside) Santa Cruz CA 95060
831.421.1263


Come visit during Open Studios Art Tour OCTOBER 5-6  11am - 5pm

 Now I'm in the homestretch preparing for Open Studios.  My last glaze firing had a lot of the new extruded pieces.  Joel Magen, of Dark Horse Pottery, got me a Scott Creek Extruder for my studio this year (a clay extruder is like a cookie extruder or cake decorator with lots of different dies / shapes, and clay forms are extruded.)  
Here are some of the first pieces:



And then I started to alter the extrusions:

 Hanging Planters:

 Watering Pot

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