March 2021
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POTTERY CREATIONS are Anne Crabbe’s passion
Submitted photos Anne Crabbe enjoys spending time at the wheel at her studio in North Carolina. In this photo taken a few years ago, she is making a more traditional bowl. Her recent creations have become more whimsical.
four years.” It was then that she realized she wanted a studio of her own. nne Crabbe always had an “We had a full basement at our affinity for art, but it wasn’t cabin and my husband stored his until her retirement that she fishing boat in half of it,” she said. was free to explore it in new ways. “One year, when the boat went Her first studio was in the garage out, the thought came that maybe at the residence on Big Mantrap I should turn the basement into a Lake where she and her husband, pottery studio for the summer and James, lived for five months of the shove everything back when it was year. time to put his boat away for the She liked art as a child and winter.” majored in art at the UniversiThat is exactly what they did. “I ty of Wisconsin. “I discovered worked in that studio for three or that I wasn’t really that good, so four years,” she said. “When he I dropped out of art and ended up got sick and could no longer come teaching,” she said. up to the cabin, I brought everyCrabbe went on to earn a masthing from my lake studio here to ter’s degree in textile and interior design. Her doctorate from the This exquisite bowl is adorned with North Carolina. We added a room onto our house for my studio with University of Nebraska is in art magnolia leaves and blossoms. two wheels and two kilns. I work education. in porcelain. It’s a kind of clay. It’s “I’ve never considered myself an artist,” she said. “I love art, I taught art, but I am a little more difficult to work with because it’s like not talented enough to make a living at it. I had just throwing with butter. Most of my stuff is quite eletaken up pottery when we first built our little cabin. gant and decorative. It's not earthy and clunky, but I would go over to Gary and Marsha Wolff’s pottery light and shiny. China dishes are made of porcelain. studio and they would let me work there. I was also Earthenware everyday dishes are often a heavier a member of the Leech Lake Art League for three or material.” By Lorie Skarpness lskarpness@parkrapidsenterprise.com
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