Watershed Ceramics Salad Days

Salad days at watershed center for the ceramic arts in newcastle maine was a celebration of local food handmade ceramics and a supportive community.

Watershed ceramics salad days.

Watershed center for the ceramic arts in midcoast maine offers artist residencies workshops educational initiatives and talks and events for artists who work in clay. Please share your salad. This year the stars aligned to make it possible to spend a beautiful summer day at salad days. Visit the watershed shop.

The plates are created by a dedicated artist in residence who spends a season at watershed making 550 plates for the festival. Salad days raffle purchase raffle tickets for your chance to win the ceramic pieces shown below and many others on july 11. 2019 salad days plate by dehmie dehmlow on the second saturday of july each year join hundreds of visitors at watershed for a memorable picnic and carry home a handcrafted ceramic plate. The artist is selected by a jury in late winter prior to their residency.

This was my first time attending salad days but not my first time trying. Watershed thanks the following partners for their support. Salad days is a novel event held in maine at the watershed center for the ceramic arts which is run annually on the 2nd saturday in july. Watershed will ship the work to the winners at no additional cost.

The following recipes come courtesy of marguerite grifka a talented chef from the san diego area who was hired to cook at watershed in 2020. The salad days artist in residence is commissioned to produce 550 plates from earthenware clay for the event. Sales have been brisk but you can still pick up some fantastic watershed apparel and purchase ceramic pieces by dehmie dehmlow maiyan ben yona and kurt anderson. Tickets are 25 each or 5 for 100.

Included in the ticket price is a souvenir handcrafted plate made by the artist in residence and a free lunch created with fresh local produce by the watershed cooks and restaurants in the area. Watershed s first online ceramic sale in our new web store opened july 11. Join the company of these 25 talented ceramists who have helped grow the salad days celebration from a back yard picnic that started in 1995 to the festival it is today that draws hundreds of visitors to watershed every july.