SF Open Studio 2012 @ sfclayworks

As we celebrated the one year anniversary of our new clay studio this past weekend, the artists of sfclayworks held their first SF Open Studios event at 2240 Palou Avenue.

Hmm, can we say new any longer?

Most of us were apprehensive about our prospects of drawing an audience to our Palou Avenue location, as we are a bit off the beaten path, but we would all agree the turn out over the past two days surpassed our expectations.

Besides the six artists displaying their work at sfclayworks, we also featured a very successful jam pop-up with Saba jam-run by Saba Parsa, a student and hands up worker at sfclayworks.

Saba jam added another level of interest to our open studio that was unexpected, but very appreciated and well supported.

It seemed as if our audience was filled with people who were specifically interested in the ceramic arts, rather than folks just looking to “see art.”

Many of our visitors had no idea of sfclayworks existence until they spotted us in the SF Open Studios catalogue. After seeing sfclayworks for themselves, many expressed interest in joining the studio sometime in the future.

The best benefit of Open Studios 2012 was to help make the public more aware of the incredible studio we have created and what a great place sfclayworks is to work!

Thank you to everyone who helped make this event a success. An especially big shout out to Janelle for all her help setting up our party.