Union Station Full Exhibition

I just finished my June exhibition at the Union Station Gallery in Ogden, Utah. My art can currently be seen every Saturday at the Farmer's Market in Salt Lake City, Utah (Location: Pioneer Park 400 South 400 West). This market will run from 8 AM to 1 Pm until mid October. You may also view my work at the Charlie Hafen Gallery (Location: 1411 South 900 East Salt Lake City, Utah).
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700232192/Showing-at-local-galleries.html




Salt Lake Tribune 2003 Article:

THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE

Young potter gaining recognition in art world

Author(s): Kristen Moulton The Salt Lake Tribune Date: July 6, 2003 Page: B3 Section: Utah

WOODS CROSS -- Molding, carving, glazing and painting one-of-a-kind clay pots are easy for Janelle Roberta Call, a 21-year-old who is beginning to turn heads in Utah art circles. Being brave enough to market herself is another thing altogether. Call, a University of Utah student studying early-childhood education, has spent two years selling pots at arts and crafts festivals and is now showing them at Juniper Sky Fine Art Gallery near Ivins in southwest Utah. Last year, her work was on display at Union Station Gallery in Ogden. She is poised, says Juniper Sky director Ginny Northcott, to draw some serious attention from art buyers. Since Call's pots arrived in early June, Northcott has sold three and has another on order. "People will discover her," Northcott predicts. But if opportunity is knocking, Call is in no hurry to answer. She has not yet developed a taste for the business details of selling her art, and she fears what high demand would mean for her ability to give each pot its own story, its own due time. But most of all, she does not want to force it -- the art or success. "I always want this to be my passion, not something I have to do," says Call, who works as a preschool teacher in the mornings. "I don't want to burn out and not like it anymore. This is my reward at the end of the day." It is for that same reason that she is not studying art at the U., and instead preparing to become a kindergarten teacher. Call discovered her love for making pots in a ceramics class at Bountiful High. She always had been a loner, puttering away in a corner on some art project. Anxiety made it difficult for her to make friends. When her ceramics teacher, Jim Arbon, saw that she could not manage to throw pots on the wheel, he allowed her to make her pots by coiling, pinching and hand-molding them. "When someone has their own style, you don't want to change them," Arbon says. Call discovered that she could carve, paint and glaze her pots to turn each into a piece of art. At a statewide high school art competition, she was offered $1,000 for her large, colorful Picasso on Pot pot. She turned the offer down, Arbon recalls. Call's other Bountiful High art teacher, Scott Bradbury, is not surprised to see Call selling pots in art galleries. "She was head and shoulders above the others as far as her vision and making things happen that were completely different than what anyone else was doing," Bradbury says. But Bradbury is surprised that Call can summon the courage to show her work. "She was so shy and backward. It shocked me a little bit that she's putting out the confidence it takes to display her work." Call says selling her pots at festivals has done wonders for her ability to talk to strangers. In fact, she no longer takes her mother or sister along to each festival for moral support. Each of her pots is inspired by an experience, a book, a song or nature. Africa -- which she visited with her father after high school graduation -- is a big inspiration. Dragonflies, flowers and Van Gogh-like swirls and suns cover her pots. Call makes her pots at the Woods Cross home she shares with her mother. She molds a pot over several days and then lets it dry for several weeks before glazing and firing it in her basement kiln. She paints some pots with acrylic paint. They sell for $30 to $500, depending on the intricacy and size. Northcott, at Juniper Sky Gallery in the Coyote Gulch Art Village outside St. George, was struck by Call's gutsiness. "I've seen so much pottery that's beautifully done, but they don't take chances," Northcott says. Call does, crafting big, heavy pots with bold images and colors that are bright but not garish. Some people display them empty, others add flowers. "I've never seen anything like them," Northcott says. "They each have their own little story. I'm glad we found her." kmoulton@sltrib.com

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