Listen Fridays at 9:00am (replayed on Saturday also at 9am) to Paula Granquist’s “ArtZany!: Radio for the Imagination”
Paula’s Guest/Topic this week:
Paula’s guest today is potter and ceramic artist Glynnis Lessing. She recently moved to Northfield from Chicago where she taught for the last 24 years at Lill Street and for Art Resources in Teaching, and various other outreach programs. She has a BFA from the University of Minnesota and is a working potter selling her work at art fairs and galleries. She primarily creates sgraffito on thrown porcelain. For more information, to look at a gallery of her work, or read her artist blog visit Glynnis Lessing on Facebook
Click here to listen to the show!
Purchase her pottery or make your own with Glennis Lessing:
Riverfront Fine Arts and Craft Festival, Booth 27
Saturday, 8 September and Sunday, 9 September 2012
10AM to 5PM each day, rain or shine
The Northfield Arts Guild popular Arts Fair is held in the heart of downtown Northfield. 60 artists and fine craft artisans will show their work on the stone walkways hugging both sides of the Cannon River. As always, the Festival coincides with the Defeat of Jesse James Days celebration, which brings crowds of 150,000 each year. Find wonderful photography, pottery, paintings, fiber art, jewelry and more by artists from all over Minnesota and the region.
Venue: Along both sides of the Cannon River behind the Northfield Arts Guild Center for the Arts, downtown Northfield
Northfield Arts Guild, in the clay studio
For class details and registration information visit: Northfield Arts Guild Classes
Fall 2012 Glynnis Lessing classes:
- Tea Sets for ages 8 – 10
- Animal Masks for ages 5 – adult
(Children under 13 must be accompanied by an adult.)
- Let There Be Light! Festival of Lights: Make Your Own Menorah or Candle Holders
for ages 5 – adult (Children under 13 must be accompanied by an adult.)
- Hand Building for Beginners for ages 14 – adult
- Throwing Bowls for adults
- Surface Decoration for adults
What a rewarding experience it was to to be able hear my creative niece Glynnis Lessing being interviewed by Ms. Granquist. Our home here in Hastings on Hudson, NY is loaded with her beautiful work which we use every day.
Thanks for the broadcast and thanks for sending the link to us Glynnis so we could hear how well you are doing in your new/old environment
Uncle Ed Lessing