| 2009 Cambridge Pottery Festival & U.S. Pottery Games
Saturday, June 13th & Sunday, June 14th
9am - 5pm 10am - 4 pm
18 Years of Celebrating Clay and the Ceramic Arts
The weather was beautiful for the 17th annual Cambridge Pottery Festival and U.S. Pottery Games, held June 14-15, 2008. The committee would like to thank all of our potters who found their way to Cambridge by-way-of many delays and detours around our water logged state. And we would like to thank our patrons, who spent many hours on the highways and bi-ways to get to our festival and shared their watery adventures with our committee.
We would like to thank SHIMPO America, for without their outstanding support we could not hold the U.S. Pottery Games. Lakeside Pottery Studio for helping in the "Hands On" Learning Center all day on Sunday (ladies we owe you 2 t-shirts!). The Potters Shop ~ Raku Workshop - for the outstanding Raku area, and the Cambridge Area Lions Club for serving the festival food.
Our festival supporters, Paoli Clay, Herings Lake Ripley Inn, The Cambridge State Bank, Cambridge Gas and Cambridge Country Motel, Ace Hardware, Lake Ripley Association, Drews Tax Plus, Kravic Trucking, Bigelow Auctions, Hills Landscaping, Hinchley Dairy Farm Tours, The Zen Gallery, Auto Air Plus, Hills Ferrier Service, Cambridge Stoneware Pottery, Smithe-Sharpe Fire Brick Supply, Koshkonong Galleries and Rowe Pottery Works.
Saturday the bleachers were full as the professional potters competed in the U.S. Pottery Games and at noon the Live Auction was a hit, bidding on the auction pieces made at last years Pottery Games. The rain held off nicely until 4:00 p.m. giving everyone a chance to make it home safely and gave time for our potters to close up shop and head to the dinner, held at Hinchley's Dairy Farm.
Sunday, was another beautiful Wisconsin day, and the "Hands On" Learning Center was a spinning with young "potters to be" and Adventures is Slip Casting showcased their fine painting techniques.
The Lake Ripley Park proved once again to be the perfect setting for another successful Cambridge Pottery Festival and when all the tents were gone and our kids ran wildly on the open field with a million stars above their heads, Peggy and I smiled and planned for next years event.
If you would like information on the Cambridge Pottery Festival, please fill out the form below.
Tell us if you would like to be an exhibitor, or a visitor and we'll send you the proper information.
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Welcome to the 18th annual Cambridge Pottery Festival and U.S. Pottery Games, held
annually in the quaint village of Cambridge and located in the south central part of Wisconsin. The Cambridge Pottery Festival and U.S. Pottery Games is located at Lake Ripley Park in Cambridge Wisconsin, just off Hwy 12 or 18, on Park Road and is FREE for the whole family.
Beginning every winter, artists submit an application and slides to be juried. Along with slide quality, the judging is based on the following criteria; technical expertise in the processing or materials used, sophistication of form, aesthetic appeal, artistic enhancements of glazes and surface treatments and most importantly, individual style. Each year as the competition grows; the quality of craftsmanship becomes increasingly unique.
The Cambridge Pottery Festival is strictly a Not-for-profit organization run by two sisters, Wendy Brabender and Peggy Klingbeil and a hand full of dedicated family and friends.
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| View from the stage. |
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| Tasteful pottery |
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| Family Fun! |
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| Festival T's |
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| Auction Pottery |
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| pottery boy |
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