THE FOREST CITY STOCKADE Every year for the last 10 or so, we (Betsy and Tom) head for a weekend at the Forest City Stockade. This is a recreation of the 1860's Stockade built near Forest City, MN, during the Sioux uprising of 1862. The Stockade was
THE 6th ANNUAL SUMMER PICNIC
An annual event at Clay Coyote has become the summer picnic and Art Show. We invite 4 or 5 guest artists and our customers to a casual 'out on the lawn' good time. This year Madam Lorna (Lorna Meyer and husband Steve) were peddling potions and lotions
SHOW TIME
Highland Park Art Fest Our second show this year was Highland Park in St Paul. What was a good smaller show in past years has now had the addition of almost as many commercial booths as artist booths. One customer described this as making it feel like
THE GREAT 2008 MUG VOTE!
THE GREAT MUG VOTE-OFF Since it is the season of voting, we're joining the crowd. Always before, we just kind of came up with new shape ideas, made a bunch and tried to sell them. This year, thanks to the wonders of blogs, you get to pick instead of
The Show Is Over
Well, at least the Art show season is done for us this year. Long weekend. We went to Bayfield WI, the gorgeous town that is the jumping off point for the Apostle Islands and Lake Superior. Lots of sailing (deep water). Should have been a
FALL OPEN HOUSE POST CARD
FOR YOUR REFRIGERATOR We're starting towards using email for more of our notifications. Part of this is because of cost, part of it since, as we're doing more shows, the need to be able to send out last minute changes in locations of booths, etc. We're
The Clay Coyote Gallery Summer Picnic
IT WAS A FABULOUS WEEKEND!!! 70 Deg, A little breeze and Throngs of people! Thank you all for stopping out! We estimate that some 700 or 800 people stopped out over the Saturday/Sunday affair. Guest Artists included: Madam Lorna
Summer at the Gallery Picnic
In The Good Old Summertime… We’d like to Say “Thank You”! So You and your friends are invited to a GOOD, OLD FASHIONED PICNIC (AND ART FAIR) IN THE COUNTRY…. The Clay Coyote Gallery summer open house is much more relaxed than the spring and fall
Art Show Reflections
Bob Carls, Woodturner, Aitken MN...couldn't resist. THE ART SHOW … … an insider’s viewMany artists and craftspeople make a good portion, or all, of their living from sales of their art at art fairs and shows, sometimes called street fairs. We
