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Welcome to the 32nd Annual St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour
by Zoe Yates | Apr 2024
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A visitor peruses shelves of pots at the Cuellar’s place in 2023. Photos: Morgan Pearson
The 32nd annual St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour will take place May 10–12. Participating studios will be open to the public from 10 a.m.–6 p.m. May 10–11; and from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. May 12. Entrance to all studios is free.
This year’s hosts are Linda Christianson, Guillermo and Alana Cuellar , Peter Jadoonath, Janel Jacobson, Ani Kasten, Matthew Krousey, Jeff Oestreich and Will Swanson. An interactive Google Map for the tour is available at minnesotapotters.com .
![pottery tour mn Guillermo and Alana Cuellar stand alongside potters who participated in the 2023 St. Croix Valley Potter Tour at the Cuellar’s studio and showroom. From left to right: Sue Tirrell, Montana; Steven Rolf, Wisconsin; Beth Bolgla, New York, France; Jim Lorio, Colorado; Nick Earl, Minnesota; Guillermo Cuellar, Minnesota (Host); Dick Cooter, Minnesota; Alana Cuellar, Wisconsin (Host); Minsoo Yuh, Georgia.](https://stcroixvalleymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/SCV_Pottery_PC_Morgan-Pearson5.jpg)
Guillermo and Alana Cuellar stand alongside potters who participated in the 2023 St. Croix Valley Potter Tour at the Cuellar’s studio and showroom. From left to right: Sue Tirrell, Montana; Steven Rolf, Wisconsin; Beth Bolgla, New York, France; Jim Lorio, Colorado; Nick Earl, Minnesota; Guillermo Cuellar, Minnesota (Host); Dick Cooter, Minnesota; Alana Cuellar, Wisconsin (Host); Minsoo Yuh, Georgia.
While some visitors try to do the entire tour in a day, ArtReach St. Croix executive director Heather Rutledge makes a weekend of it, taking time to visit each studio with her mom, who drives up from Iowa for Mother’s Day Weekend. “It’s really something that, in its niche, is very famous—and it’s right here in our backyard. How lucky,” Rutledge says.
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Join us on May 10, 11 & 12, 2024 for the 32nd Annual St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour!
The St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour is an annual gathering of exceptional potters and pottery enthusiasts in the beautiful St. Croix River Valley of Minnesota. The 2024 tour will feature seventy artists at seven different studios. We hope to see you there!
The studios are a short drive from each other, allowing some or all to be visited in a single day, and within an hour of the Twin Cities. Admission is free and open to everyone.
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Outside Shafer, Minn., past honey stalls and grazing cows, rolling green hills are dotted with handcrafted pottery. Folks from around the world have descended on the valley for one of the biggest ceramic events in the country: The annual St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour , which runs May 12-14.
Trevor Simon, a pottery enthusiast, has traveled from London.
“This is Rome; this is Hollywood in the ceramics world,” Simon says. He’s standing amid tables filled with wares on the grassy hilltop at the Guillermo Cuellar Pottery studio. “Ceramics is rock'n'roll. It looks like it's quiet, but what it takes to make these things — the autobiography that goes into it — is personal, and helps people get out of mass culture, slow their lives down. I mean, they’re mystics. Imagine sitting in the forest all day, just making stuff, you’re arguing with the clay, trying to get it into the shape that you want. It's a proxy on life. So, people that live in cities are coming here because everything slows down.”
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The tour features eight different studios, showcasing the works of local talent, as well as artists from across the globe — 73 potters in total. The event is so well-attended that the studios hire parking attendants to direct traffic.
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An hour before the tour opened on Friday, attendees were already lining up in the studio driveways. Friends Kim Burnham and Emily Grisbeck, of Minneapolis, came early so they could get the work of a certain artist before it sold out: a mug by Montana artist Sue Tirrell.
“We got here at 9:30 a.m. so we could essentially race up here and get one,” says Burnham, who is a herself is an artist, part of the Rogue Potters collective. She proudly holds up a mug painted with a mermaid.
Guillermo Cuellar Pottery has long been one of the studios at the heart of the tour. This year, Guillermo Cuellar is hosting the event with his daughter and fellow potter Alana Cuellar. Their event features the work of 10 artists mixed together across dozens of tables.
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“So, what you get is the effect of abundance,” Alana Cuellar says. “You can see the relationships between pots from different potters.”
Guillermo Cuellar says that Minnesota’s strong pottery community is because of Warren McKenzie, a famous craft potter who died in 2018, who taught generations of potters the medium.
“Pottery has an incredible, long, rich tradition in Minnesota,” Guillermo Cuellar says. For Cuellar, it’s all about community.
“All of my pots have to do with having people come together in community and food, family and friends, and having them sit around a pot, a teapot, or a casserole or hot dish and focus on healthy food, community and friendship,” Guillermo Cuellar says. “So, that's what I think this event is.”
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About five miles up the St. Croix River, next to Franconia Sculpture Park, is one of the event’s newer hosts, Peter Jadoonath. Here, tables stacked full with vases, bowls, mugs and more nestle up against a plowed cornfield.
“The little overcast day has made it so the colors are just popping, the birds are chirping,” Jadoonath says. “It's a gallery, but it's in your backyard.”
He says the pottery world is tight knit because the craft keeps the artists humble.
“There's no forgiveness in the material. It really humbles you. You can make the best work and it can crack in the firing; it can crack while it’s drying and you could drop it. It’s that humbleness that the material gives you. We all know what we're dealing with here,” he says. “What's being celebrated this weekend is, it's about pots and people are coming to buy pots — but there's also me and my family, and then with the artists that come here, you become a family, the family gets bigger.”
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32nd Annual St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour
Join us on May 10, 11 & 12, 2024 for the 32nd Annual St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour!
The St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour is an annual gathering of exceptional potters and pottery enthusiasts in the beautiful St. Croix River Valley of Minnesota. The 2024 tour will feature seventy artists at seven different studios. We hope to see you there!
The studios are a short drive from each other, allowing some or all to be visited in a single day, and within an hour of the Twin Cities. Admission is free and open to everyone.
Friday, May 10, 10 am – 6 pm Saturday, May 11, 10 am – 6 pm Sunday, May 12, 10 am – 5 pm
Linda Christianson* 35703 Vibo Trail Lindstrom, MN 55045 (651) 257-2374 [email protected]
Guillermo Cuellar & Alana Cuellar* 18855 263rd St Shafer, MN 55074 (651) 213-1073 [email protected]
Peter Jadoonath 30208 Tern Ave Shafer, MN 55074 (651)-307-0758 [email protected]
Ani Kasten 29815 Unity Ave Shafer, MN 55074 (240) 460 3008 [email protected]
Matthew Krousey* 2785 Stark Rd Harris, MN 55032 (320) 232-9135 [email protected]
Jeff Oestreich 36835 Pottery Trail Taylors Falls, MN 55084 (651) 583-2532 [email protected]
Will Swanson & Janel Jacobson 41421 Ferry Rd, Sunrise Harris, MN 55032-3138 (651) 245-2808 [email protected] [email protected]
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The St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour is an annual gathering of exceptional potters and pottery enthusiasts in the beautiful St. Croix River Valley of Minnesota. The 2024 tour will feature seventy artists at seven different studios. We hope to see you there!
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Last year at this time, we talked with Minnesota potter Matt Krousey about the 28th Annual St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour . This Minnesota Mother’s Day weekend tradition that draws thousands of people to seven potters’ studios for three days of shopping and socializing. For the first time in its history, the tour was going virtual, the only choice available in a deadly pandemic.
No one thought this year would be a repeat. By now, the potters are pros at marketing themselves and their work online. For some, that has been a big change. As Krousey said last year, “I want to be a Luddite, but it’s not an option anymore.”
Potters work with clay and fire, glazes and paints. It’s a hands-on occupation. Melissa Weiss digs her own clay. Until very recently, Dan Finnegan worked in a studio without electricity. Many potters live in small towns, in woods or the countryside. Krousey gets some of his inspiration from the flora and fauna who share his land in Harris. One of the pleasures of taking the actual tour is driving through the scenic St. Croix Valley, with its curving roads and tiny towns.
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The tour starts at 10 a.m. Friday (May 7) and continues through Sunday (May 9). You can learn more about the potters here . Click on STUDIOS in the menu up top. A directory of all the potters’ online shops is here and will stay up after the sale.
Sometime in April, Krousey gathered his guest potters for a group Zoom, during which they talked about their work, their lives, the challenges of the past year and the tour. Three of Krousey’s guests couldn’t be there, but a new guest was, Kyle Lee from Brooklyn, New York. (OK, so not all potters live in small towns.) You can watch the Zoom here . It will give you a taste of what it’s like to meet the potters face-to-face. Barring some other unforeseen apocalyptic incident, we’ll be doing that again next year.
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Every year during Mother’s Day weekend, the annual St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour attracts thousands of patrons to admire work by the country’s most accomplished potters—many of whom hail from Minnesota. The valley has historically been home to a variety of artists creating everything from ceramics and sculpture to jewelry and paintings. Over the past couple of decades, the event has garnered a reputation as being one of the best tours of its kind, and this year’s 24th incarnation was no exception.
This year’s tour stopped at seven along the valley, all of which were located within Minnesota’s borders. The tour kicked off on a blisteringly hot Friday, though the weather failed to keep away the crowds of pottery fans. Every host has the freedom to invite the artists whose work is shown at their studio, and the wide array of creativity throughout the work was evident at first glance. Pieces ranged from functional to architectural, and many stretched the limits of what pottery can be.
In many ways an interactive event, all of the artists were present and available to answer questions about their work. A sense of camaraderie pervaded the event, both between the artists and the public and the artists themselves. Minnesota is a great encourager of artistic expression, and the tour’s perpetual success is in no small part due to this encouragement and appreciation.
As a first-time attendee of the event, I was impressed by the thought that was put into every part of the proceedings, from the presentation of the art to the tasty snacks—spreads that included goat cheese and mango salsa, stuffed grape leaves, spicy carrot dip, baklava, freshly popped kettle corn, and hibiscus iced tea. Much of it was served in, and on, handmade cups and plates, a touch that distinguished the event from other art festivals of its kind. The mutual respect between artist and patron made the event all the more enjoyable—and a pen containing sleepy Labrador puppies at my second stop didn’t hurt either!
But pottery was the order of the day, and this year’s collection did not disappoint. Personal highlights included Jenny Mendes ’ vaguely sinister anthropomorphized objects, including small masks; Michael Kline ’s delicate floral pieces; and Jim Lorio ’s lively glazed bowls. Each artist’s talent shone in individual ways, and the arrangement of pieces scattered amongst each other took nothing away from their singular integrity. Rather, it highlighted the extreme creativity of the artists and the ways in which potters are able to stretch and play within their medium.
From the picturesque settings to the beautiful works of art on display, the annual pottery tour demonstrated the truth behind its reputation as a world-class gathering of ceramic artists.
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Tour 15 venues and meet over 35 artists during the 10th annual Northern Moraine Spring Art Tour in Sheboygan County June 14-15
Venues will be open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. june 14 and 15..
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SHEBOYGAN – This weekend, the public can take a self-guided tour through local artist studios, boutiques and galleries as part of the 10th annual Northern Moraine Spring Art Tour .
The Plymouth Arts Center tour will feature venues across Sheboygan County from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 14 and 15. The free event allows for the public to meet artists and view some private studios only accessible to the public during the once-a-year event.
Participants can meet more than 35 artists across 15 venues. The artists will range from painters, potters, photographers, leather artists and more.
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In addition to the public seeing the venues, demonstrations will be given, door prizes awarded and art directly from the artist will be available for purchase.
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The Plymouth Arts Center will act as the first stop of the tour with seven artists present in its greatroom. The center will also serve as the tour headquarters.
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The full list of participating artists, event maps and more can be found on the Plymouth Arts Center website .
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Get out and smell the flowers: your guide to minnesota garden tours.
From urban to rural gardens, small to large lots, and vegetable to rainwater gardens, avid gardeners are getting ready to roll out the welcome mat to their yards as a way to educate and inspire other green thumb enthusiasts. Here are some upcoming tours in the metro area and beyond that range in themes, offering something for everyone.
WEST END NEIGHBORS' GARDEN TOUR
June 15: Explore the lush greenery of traditional gardens, the charm of native landscapes, the creativity of alley gardens and the productivity of vegetable gardens. The tour is a celebration of St. Paul's W. 7th area and its diverse gardening styles. A plant sale is also part of the event. (10 a.m. to 3 p.m., free; fortroadfed.org/west-end-garden-tour )
SEWARD GARDEN TOUR
June 20 : This tour invites you to witness the beauty and care of 10 urban gardens in the heart of Minneapolis' historic Seward neighborhood. Take a tour through the beautiful gardens, followed by an afterparty with drinks and flower raffle. Spots are limited. (6 to 8 p.m.; $15 advance, $20 day of tour; sng.org )
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HENNEPIN COUNTY MASTER GARDENERS LEARNING GARDEN TOUR
July 13: Hennepin County Master Gardener volunteers host this self-guided tour spotlighting 10 gardens in Minneapolis and Edina. (8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; $15 advance; $20 day of tour. Children under 12 free with paid adult; hennepinmastergardeners.org )
NEW PRAGUE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY TOUR
July 13: A self-guided tour of private and public gardens plus presentations on the history of gardening and agriculture in the area. 400 E. Main St., New Prague. (9 a.m. to 1 p.m., $10; tinyurl.com/3cxudnbe )
NORTHFIELD GARDEN CLUB TOUR
July 13-14: Homeowners in the Northfield area open their gardens to the public in this self-guided tour that features six residential gardens. Gardens aim to show a variety such as vegetables, fruit and flowers. Garden art is also part of the lineup. (11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; $10; thenorthfieldgardenclub.org )
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AUXILIARY PRIVATE GARDEN TOURS
July 14-16: Guests of the Arboretum Auxiliary will tour four local private gardens via air-conditioned motor coaches. Look for creative color combinations, showcase pollinator-friendly plantings, interesting water features and beautiful art pieces. (9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and 3 to 6 p.m. Sunday, 9 a.m. to noon Monday, 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday; $20. Children 15 and under free with paid ticketed adult; arb.umn.edu/GardenTours )
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WASHINGTON COUNTY MASTER GARDENERS GARDEN TOUR
July 20: The Learning and Growing tour will feature seven gardens in White Bear Lake, Oakdale and Stillwater. The gardens range from small city lots to those on acreage; from flowers and shrubs to native plants and a variety of vegetables. Master Gardeners will answer questions at each garden and educational materials will be available. (9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; $15 in advance, $20 day of event; washingtoncountymg.org )
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MWGS WATER GARDEN TOUR
July 27-28: The 27th Annual Minnesota Water Garden Society tour includes picturesque gardens, wonderful waterfalls and stunning streams. (9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; $15 in advance, $20 day of event, $5 for a single tour site; mwgs.org )
COLUMBIA HEIGHTS GARDEN TOUR
Aug. 9: Enjoy a delightful evening of nature's beauty. Grab a map at Blooming Sunshine Garden in Lomianki Park (80 39th Av. NE., Columbia Heights) to guide you through the stunning gardens of participating community members. (5 to 8 p.m.; facebook.com/events/734358168759224 )
BEYOND THE METRO
ROCHESTER GARDEN AND FLOWER CLUB
July 13: This tour spotlights six private gardens, and includes educational booths, local artisans and musicians. (10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; $15, under 18 free; rgfc.org )
DULUTH WOMEN'S CLUB TOUR OF HOMES AND GARDENS
July 17: The 56th annual tour features homes and gardens from different times and eras in the community, from stately old homes to modern homes of today. (10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; $42; duluthwomansclub.com )
LINDEN HILL HISTORIC ESTATE GARDEN TOUR
July 17: Walk at your own pace to see formal gardens on the grounds, then make your way to see more gardens against the backdrop of historic mansions. Then grab a map and drive to featured private gardens in the community. 608 Highland Av., Little Falls, Minn. (3 to 8 p.m.; $10; littlefallsmn.com/events/garden-tour/ )
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The 29th annual St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour - May 7, 8, 9, 2021. Enter the site to find information and images of the potters and their work. Map and Lodging information will help you plan your weekend on "The Tour" in Chisago County, less than an hour's drive from Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN.
Saint Croix Valley Pottery Tour Interactive Google Map, Printable PDF Map, and Host Potters addresses. Welcome; Studios. ... 36835 Pottery Trail Taylors Falls, MN 55084 (651) 583-2532 [email protected]. Will Swanson & Janel Jacobson 41421 Ferry Rd, Sunrise Harris, MN 55032-3138 (651) 245-2808
The 32nd annual St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour will take place May 10-12. Participating studios will be open to the public from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. May 10-11; and from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. May 12. Entrance to all studios is free. This year's hosts are Linda Christianson, Guillermo and Alana Cuellar, Peter Jadoonath, Janel Jacobson, Ani Kasten ...
The St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour is an annual gathering of exceptional potters and pottery enthusiasts in the beautiful St. Croix River Valley of Minnesota. Always held on Mothers' Day weekend, The Tour is an opportunity to explore seven studios, each with distinctive character, and purchase pots from dozens of guest artists and nine host potters.
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Time. 10:00 am - 6:00 pm. Join us on May 10, 11 & 12, 2024 for the 32nd Annual St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour! The St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour is an annual gathering of exceptional potters and pottery enthusiasts in the beautiful St. Croix River Valley of Minnesota. The 2024 tour will feature seventy artists at seven different studios.
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