Filmed (most likely) in the summer of 1978, this Super 8mm film documents SCSU art department graduate, Steve Mears, throwing pots in a small studio on my parents property in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Originally used as a car garage and pluming workshop, the outbuilding was converted to a working ceramic studio by my father in the early seventies. Over the approximate ten years the Pot Shop was operational, perhaps a dozen artists worked in and sold artwork from this humble structure. Though the studio was most commonly referred to as the Pot Shop, it’s exterior was adorned with a sign reading “Art Mart” which was originally from a small gallery in downtown St. Cloud. Over the approximate ten years the Pot Shop was operational, perhaps a dozen artists worked in and sold artwork from this humble structure. Filmed (most likely) in the summer of 1978, this Super 8mm film documents SCSU art department graduate, Steve Mears, throwing pots in a small studio on my parents property in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Originally used as a car garage and pluming workshop, the outbuilding was converted to a working ceramic studio by my father in the early seventies. Over the approximate ten years the Pot Shop was operational, perhaps a dozen artists worked in and sold artwork from this humble structure. Though the studio was most commonly referred to as the Pot Shop, it’s exterior was adorned with a sign reading “Art Mart” which was originally from a small gallery in downtown St. Cloud.
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