Every April and November there is a one-day pop-up paint-your-own-pottery day called Clay Cafe set up in the high school art room. Anyone can come and choose a piece of pottery to buy and then paint with glaze. It’s a drop-by kind of thing but we love spending every minute of the three hours creating. It’s a fundraiser for A-OK – Arts for Orcas Kids – which gives public school kids a chance to learn from talented local artists in the classroom.
It’s rare to get the opportunity to glaze pottery for an afternoon, and doubly rare for something like that to be affordable. And for it to benefit others. Paint-your-own-pottery places charge quite a lot per hour, plus the inflated cost of the item you choose. At Clay Cafe we paid $10 for my mug, $12 for my husband’s large mug, $14 for our son’s travel mug with a top, and $12 for our other son’s salt pot.
What a ball we had, A-OK!
