Alex Solla on fri 17 oct 03
After calling and emailing a few of my local friends I figured it was time to share my recent change in life with the rest of clayart.
Since leaving grad school in 1999 I have spent my days working for a library at Cornell University. It wasnt fun, but it paid well and the benefits were good. 1 divorce, 1 marriage (to the most awesome woman in the world I must add), 2 back surgeries and 4 years later, things were starting to look really bad at work... too much stress, too much sitting... all things the surgeons and drs said STAY AWAY FROM.
So... on wednesday of this week I left Cornell and with the help of my wife and daughter made a clean break. Cold Springs Studio is now a fulltime pottery. With help from folks like Tony C, Craig M, Richard A, Vince and Lee Burningham... I knew we could do it.
My promise to myself was that we would try to land our work in 3 galleries this year before christmas, with the goal of one in hand by my birthday in June. By Sept we had 3 gallery accounts, ahead of schedule and producing pots well within our delivery time. So we raised our goals a little and said how about one more gallery (which is about all we could handle at the time) and then I get to leave Cornell and do clay fulltime.
Well, we jumped the gun by a day. Wed was my last day of punching a clock. Then yesterday I opened my email to find a nice happy letter from a gallery wanting our work.
Not bad. 2nd day on the job and we added that 4th gallery we thought I'd need to push away from my day job. Now we're slowly but surely building up the business we've worked on for so long.
I wanted to share this with everyone particularly because Clayart is so often filled with How Do I, and Why Wont This Work, Who Knows What Will Fix..... and I wanted to say thank you to everyone on the list who makes it possible to push clay as far as anyone wants to go!
Thank you.
Alexander Solla
Cold Springs Studio
4088 Cold Springs Road
Trumansburg, NY 14886
who can now be found up to his ass in mud from daybreak till dark. YAHOOOOOO!!!!
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