http://statemuseum.arizona.edu/blog/index.php/2009/05/getting-to-know-us/ Fri, 31 Aug 2012 21:59:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://statemuseum.arizona.edu/blog/index.php/2009/05/getting-to-know-us/#comment-13 Lisa Falk Sun, 31 May 2009 01:43:27 +0000 http://statemuseum.arizona.edu/blog/?p=11#comment-13 Hello Jerry and Carol,
Thank you for commenting on the new blog and for sharing your love of pottery and enjoyment of our pottery interpretive area exhibition and 3-D computer interactive. You have probably already found our virtual pottery exhibit and the 3-D images of pots in our collection that you can fiddle with online on this website. For anyone interested, visit: http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/exhibits/pproj/. Also, one of our podcasts is a short interview with award-winning Hopi potter White Swann and her children: http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/podcasts/. I hope you will visit ASM again on one of your SW sojourns.
Lisa

]]> http://statemuseum.arizona.edu/blog/index.php/2009/05/getting-to-know-us/#comment-12 Jerry W. Ellis and wife Carol Fri, 29 May 2009 03:23:44 +0000 http://statemuseum.arizona.edu/blog/?p=11#comment-12 Hi Lisa, We are not much for blogs but our enjoyment of your museum pottery collection overshadows that so I felt compelled to respond to your invitation. We visited ASM last summer and was able to see what was on display and used the interactive 3D computer display to inspect several of the pieces that were then available to view.
BTW, the word processors used in these settings are typically pretty crude; at least yours has the spell checker feature and I appreciate that. As a chemist I know a lot of words that are pretty useless once I’ve retired and likewise, I’m learning lots of words from your field that I’ve never used before.
As we viewed your pottery collection we observed folks in small groups or individuals enter a restricted area, presumably for some serious discussions that we assumed were related to pottery. We were envious.
We started our trips to the southwest and our pottery collection in the summer of 1996. By now we have approximately 80 pieces plus a few other items such as sculptures, baskets, 2D items and of course, some jewelry. And we’ve enjoyed friendships with a few of the potters including Toni Roller and her husband Ted along with sons Cliff and Jeff from Santa Clara and also Eric Fender from San Ildefonso, Mary Small, and others. We enjoy our collection very much but have decreased our collecting rate due to lack of space in our special display case. We try to acquire a representative piece from each culture.
We have spent lots of time learning about the pueblos and other cultures by visiting sites including Chaco Canyon and many others. More recently we’ve spent time seeing the several National Parks in Utah and nearby places. Quite an area, the Southwest. We’re still learning!
Keep up the good work at ASM. Jerry and Carol Ellis, Charleston, IL

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