How do I even start...the beloved studio where I have made ceramics, taught classes, and furthered my ministry the past 3 years has been destroyed in the flooding from Hurricane Helene. I moved into my spot in this studio before I even found a place to live in Asheville. To me, Southside Studios was my first and favorite Asheville home. So many memories, so many late nights, so much blood, sweat and tears shared in that space. I'm not sure what's the hardest loss: the apron I brought with me from college, the drill my dad gave me as a surprise birthday present, the cookie cutters that my grandmother and I used to play with when I was a child that had been converted into ornament cutters, or my entire body of work that I had prepared for my upcoming solo exhibition--and the ability to make more. I had just bought 500 pounds of porcelain (a very expensive clay) and lost it all, including both pottery wheels, all of my one-of-a-kind plaster molds I had made by hand, my collection of tools, every single piece of backstock...While I am so thankful and praise God that no one was in the studio during the flooding and all of my studio mates are safe, the grief of this unexpected loss is overwhelming. I can't say how long it will take me to rebuild my fine art business of 5 years, and due to the loss of my molds, my work will never look the same. I'm not sure what I'll have to show for my solo exhibition coming up in a few months. I'm not sure where I'll even be able to work or how I'll manage, but God has not raised a quitter. He gave me a talent and a passion and as long as He's leading me, I'm willing to take this day by day.
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