![]() ![]() Actively Aging Adult Resources in Parker Colorado.Where: Goodson Recreation Center, 6315 S. For a lot of people, it becomes not just a hobby, but a passion.” “It’s a win-win for everybody,” she said of guild sales. She said she should have 75 pieces in next week’s sale, and previously has made as much as $250 during a single event. She said she is excited by recent growth in guild membership and interest in pottery programs. Helen Pinson has been a guild member for about two and a half years. The instructors “are so knowledgeable and everybody here is so helpful and fun.” She is considering selling some of her pieces at the upcoming guild sale. She is not a guild member, but like many of them, including Morgan, Gedeon got hooked on the art form after her first class. “It’s really become a community-focused thing,” she said.Ĭentennial resident Kim Gedeon started taking beginning courses at Goodson six months ago. She said their efforts benefit all of her students, including a handful of regular lab users with disabilities. She said guild members also volunteer to clean up the lab, provide skills demonstrations, recruit other people to get involved and offer their knowledge to developing potters. Get your hands in the mud, as we like to say, or at the very least come and buy a piece that will help this program continue.”Ĭhristine Katzenberg, Goodson lab coordinator for the last 11 years, said that 90 percent of the electric wheels in the lab and all of the kilns were purchased with guild-raised and matching gifts program money. “The original potters made this wonderful art form so available to everyone,” Cassidy said. The kids classes use recycled clay from Goodson that keeps costs down. People will have their latest chance to buy work from the guild’s 30 or so members and other potters at a sale at Goodson next week.Īll district pottery programs, including the kids classes at the Lone Tree and Buck recreation centers benefit from the guild’s efforts, Cassidy said. The staff and employees of South Suburban are great. “We surveyed the entire lab, not just guild members. “We asked all the people who use the lab to list and help us prioritize those things they would like to see purchased,” Morgan, a retired physician, said of applying for and receiving another matching gift dedication in 2016. Fifteen percent of the money the potters bring in is dedicated to improving the Goodson lab. The guild raises its share of the money through regular pottery sales hosted at South Suburban facilities a handful of times each year. It’s anchored in the matching gifts program. Since forming more than 30 years ago, the guild - a private club based at Goodson that costs $5 to join - has formed a strong relationship with the district that current guild president Tim Morgan calls “symbiotic.” The district board last month allocated $2,049 to the South Suburban Pottery Guildto put toward a new potter’s wheel, glazing table, air filter and other materials for the clay arts studio at the Goodson Recreation Center. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close MenuĬENTENNIAL -The South Suburban Parks and Recreation District‘s matching giftsprogram will give its largest sum this year to a familiar partner. ![]()
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