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F

or the record, Mary Strat-
ton's last days of pottery
and ceramic making end-
ed in the early '60s. But her
legendary work at Pewabic Pot-
tery continues to draw customers
as well as fellow ceramicists and
sculptors to the East Jefferson
Tudor-style haunt.
At the place Stratton founded
in the early 1900s, there's an in-
delible reminder of her presence.
Overhanging the room where
clay is baked in traditional and
state-of-the-art kilns is the office
once inhabited by the prominent
Detroit artist.
Legend has it that when the
kilns are busily loaded and un-
loaded, the light in Stratton's for-
mer office casts a glow similar to
the golden molten emanating
from the furnaces.
"When the light's on and we're
down here looking up, we some-
times say she's up in her office,"
said Helen Broughton, director
of exhibitions at Pewabic Pot-
tery. These days, with the pro-
duction output three times what
it was just five years ago, the
kilns, along with the light in
Stratton's one-time office, seldom
dim.
In late November, Pewabic
kicked off its Gifts of Clay Holi-
day Show, which runs through
the end of the year. The annual
event features jewelry, pottery
and ceramics from 75 artists. It's
also a time to feature the newest

Above:
seums combine a
designs from Pe-
Anat Shiftan provides pointers to gallery with edu-
wabic.
Pewabic's potters.
cational outreach
"Every year we
initiatives and an
get a lot of traffic
Below:
at this time," said The artist first came in contact artist-in-residence
Broughton. "Al- with functional pottery as a child program.
Director of Edu-
though we think of
in Israel.
cation Anat Shif-
ourselves as an ed-
ucational facility, our gallery tan came to Pewabic in 1986
has a retail environment, as after completing her master of
fine arts at Cranbrook Institute
well."
Pewabic continues to be a pop- of Arts. Initially, Shiftan, an
ular visit for shoppers looking Israeli who studied at the
for Stratton's trademark glazed Bezalel Academy of Art in
tiles (her designs com-
prise almost 50 per-
cent of all the tiles sold
at Pewabic). The re-
maining sales come
from custom-order res-
idential and commer-
cial tiles and newly
designed work from
Pewabic's staff.
After Stratton's
death, Pewabic was
owned by Michigan
State University be-
fore becoming, in 1981,
one of the few non-
profit educational clay
facilities in the coun-
try. There are other
"working museums"
around the country
like Pewabic, such as
the Moravian Tile
Works in Doylestown,
Penn., 20 miles out-
side of Philadelphia.
But few other clay mu-

