{"product_id":"sarah-heimann-teapot-with-striped-umbrella-knob","title":"Sarah Heimann - Teapot with Striped Umbrella Knob","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSarah Heimann\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew Hampshire\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(69, 68, 65);\"\u003eCone 6 white stoneware, thrown, carved, slips, and glaze inlay. Oxidation fired.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #454441;\"\u003eFunctional\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9.75\"w x 5.75\"l x 5.5\"h\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #454441;\"\u003eAbout the Teapot\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #454441;\"\u003eTeapots are one of my favorite forms.  There’s so much time to spend making one, hours of carving.  The current umbrella\/parasol series is inspired by a card that has been on my studio wall for years- a penguin holding an umbrella.  It’s a beautiful, inky little print.  People then look at the knobs and confidently tell me that they are shitake mushrooms.  They’re not necessarily wrong.  I hold an image in my head as I carve, but what ends up on a piece may be quite different. I just happen to love umbrellas—their structure, their touch of whimsy, even their formality delights me.  It is that delight that I search for in my teapots.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #454441;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Artist\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eSarah Heimann is a studio potter in Lebanon, NH. She is an instructor at Dartmouth College’s ceramic studio. Her work has been published in Lark’s \u003cem\u003e500 Cups\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e500 Vases,\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e500 Teapots,\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eStudio Potter\u003c\/em\u003e magazine, and \u003cem\u003eSurfaces, Glazes, and Firing\u003c\/em\u003e by Angelica Pozo. Awards have included the Huntington Museum of Art Walter Gropius Master Artist, McKnight Artist Residency, Jerome Artist Project Grant, and a McKnight Artist Fellowship.  She has an MFA in Ceramics from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist Statement\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI wrap carvings around simple ceramic forms. I am surrounded by history with an apartment and studio in an old barn. Walks in nearby woods take me by trees grown through wire fences, crumbling cellar foundations, and old stone walls. Sidewalk pieces line the bottom of a stream in a neighboring town park.\u003cbr\u003eImages fill my head as I draw on leather-hard pieces. There are stories in every abandoned cellar hole, each forested stone wall, and every clump of field daffodils. Suggestions of these stories fill my head as I start drawing, beginning with a bloom or building, taking a small moon to the ground, and placing a larger one over a vine and behind a tree. In carving, I hone form and breathe life into the image.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Teapots that are purchased will remain on display in the gallery for the duration of the exhibition, through September 14, 2026. \u003cbr\u003eAfter the show closes, teapots will be carefully packed and shipped by September 28, or they may be picked up at the gallery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"National Teapot Show XIII","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49035042390268,"sku":"NTSXIII-171-2","price":600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0570\/8146\/2941\/files\/171-2SarahHeimann-TeapotwStripedUmbrellaKnobpic1.jpg?v=1777481147","url":"https:\/\/cedarcreekgallery.com\/products\/sarah-heimann-teapot-with-striped-umbrella-knob","provider":"Cedar Creek Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}