Exhibit: Brooklin Pottery Co-op

Blue Hill, Maine - The five members of the Brooklin Pottery Co-op, Mercuria Cumbo, Bunny Gorski, Cathy Rees, Elsie Sealander and Jane Story, will be showing some of their most recent work in an exhibit in the Howard Room glass cases at the Blue Hill Library during the month of December.  Bunny and Jane founded the Brooklin Pottery Co-op in 2003 when their teacher, Caroline Mayher, stopped giving classes. The love of pottery that drove the creation of the co-op flourishes still with an additional three pottery aficionados who, along with Bunny and Jane, make up the active and thriving co-op.


Each member of the Co-op has their own unique style. Mercuria Cumbo enjoys making highly decorated, functional stoneware pottery. She uses nature themes of birds and fish to decorate her pots. Bunny Gorski works with several types of clay and has a very organic style that is contemporary and freeform. Cathy Rees enjoys working with porcelain and does beautiful, intricate carving on many of her wheel thrown pots. Elsie Sealander loves to create pottery beings, like bunnies, chickens, and frogs, in a wonderful folk-art style. Jane Story shows her love of nature in her pots decorated with ferns, leaves, and the bark of trees. She also makes whimsical fruit pots.


The pottery co-op is located off Naskeag Rd. on Mountain Ash Road, and is open to the public on Fridays and weekends during the summer and fall months or by appointment.


The exhibit is in the Howard Room cases, available for viewing during Library hours subject to the meeting room schedule. For more information call the Library at 374-5515.