Julie Schulweis Hadley’s bowls and other work will be featured in the gallery throughout March. Please join us for the closing reception on Saturday April 2, 6–9pm.
Artist’s Statement
Being an owner, operator, and teacher at La Mano Pottery for over ten years has provided me with an environment more conducive to creating art than when I was in fine art school for painting. I look forward to the moments that I spend at the studio, able to immerse myself in the medium of clay, as well as the carving and decorating of it. It transports me to other places and provides the space and time for me to let down my guard and take a breath.
All of my pottery is about letting go, loosening up, relaxing, finding, refining and redefining my inner self. As an adult, I feel my childhood was too short, went by too quickly—and I became increasingly tight with my art. At the beginning, I was very concerned with making the perfect round bowl. Now, after twelve years of potting, I am finally able to make the perfect bowl that is not perfectly round, know when it is finished, and know that less is more.
