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Thursday, November 24, 2005
Café-gallery holds Sagada stoneware exhibit
SAGADA Stoneware, an exhibition of pottery by the Sagada Ceramics Center, started November 5 at The Breathing Space, a café-gallery at the Penthouse, Lopez Building, Session Road.
The month-long exhibition features the works of potters Ardeth Angway, Tessie Baldo, Siegrid Bangyay and Lope Bosaing.
Complementing the pottery show are Sagada photographs by Eliza Consul, Tommy Hafalla, Ompong Tan and Joachim Voss.
All four potters trained at the Sagada Ceramics Center where they learned the stages of making pottery -- finding clay deposits and glaze ingredients, processing clay, throwing forms on the wheel, mixing and applying glazes and firing the kiln.
Lope and Siegrid were among the first apprentices and had joined exhibitions in Baguio and Manila since 2001. Ardeth and Tessie trained in 2004 and are exhibiting their works for the first time.
For many years, several people dreamed of having a kiln and a pottery workshop in Sagada. In 1999, fortuitous circumstances began to happen. Former Sagada mayor now presidential assistant Thomas Killip had built a large workshop and a kiln on their family property in Danunoy.
It was waiting to be put to good use. Hundreds of miles away, Archie Stapleton, an American potter who grew up in Sagada in the 1960s, had always dreamed teaching pottery to Sagadans but he did not know where and how to begin.
In 2000, Archie, based in Tennessee, learned about the kiln in Danunoy. He returned to Sagada last October 2000 with basic pottery tools and equipment for a training facility and soon after, began teaching the first batch of apprentice potters.
Sagada has a wide array of geologic materials for high-fired pottery. Potters at the Sagada Ceramics Center continue to experiment with various types of Sagada clay and glaze materials that they blend with ingredients sourced from other places. Their goal is to produce stoneware that will use a higher proportion of locally found raw materials.
Sagada Stoneware is the second exhibit at the new café-gallery with Erlyn Ruth Alcantara as guest curator. Exhibit will run until Dec. 4, 2005. For inquiries, call 446-9228. (Press release)
(November 24, 2005 issue)
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