Sugarloaf Craft Festival
Everyone in this world has a story.
Sometimes with the world around us moving a million miles per second, we don’t get the chance to stop and ask what that story is. However, on March 7 , I made it my mission to give these masters of their crafts a chance to tell me theirs.
I heard how people turned their passion into their life’s work and how others and still growing and learning each and everyday. Each vendor enlightened me on their journey on how they got to where they are today.
Photo Tate Fallon
RACHEL SMITH- POTTERY With Japanese and Asian culture influences, from her upbringing in Seattle and the memory of her mother saying, “there has to be more to life than this” and proceeding to become an artist, compelled by pottery Rachel Smith started her own company creating everything from ramen bowls to lamps and artisan crafted mugs. “Once you get hooked by clay, why stop?” said Smith. “I started selling pottery in 1972 which has been my primary income since then. I still look at my early work and I can see where I came from, but still what I am doing now is different. I’m always interested in trying new things and experimenting. I got into making clay spoons, which isn’t exactly something that ever taught me how to make. Lately I’ve been making these hanging sculptures because they’re a fun, really different direction, you can’t drink coffee out of it, you don’t put a light bulb in it and light it up, it just pleases me. It’s fun and it’s playful.”