| Show d. d I I 2 t i 4 L r cw 7 f m f 1 t 0 rat i f I Roa Roadrunner pottery In the he mAking Joe Joo II Gelo opens the mold revealing a newly made mug while wife Jacquie puts the Moab Heart Henrt of the Can Can- Is now home of Gelo Roadrunner Pottery the latest lat Int- latest lat lat- est cst Industry to follow the Park to Main street The cunning little bird caricatures which identify the pottery have already won the heart of with their whimsical antics on mugs and other ware from the reorders pouring in from elsewhere it seems they my I take visitors by storm too The new industry Potters are arc attractive Gelo Gelo Ge Ge- lo 10 and her husband Joe proprietors proprietors pro pro- I of the Trading Post Their Roadrunner Pottery starts with a blob of clay in ina ina a tiny workroom behind the store But Jacquie says her Roadrunner originated long before the pottery It is the outcome of an Intense Intense intense In in- tense interest In authentic Indian art which she carried with her to Beaver Girls College at Pa Pat Throughout her commercial art course at the school she dabbled in Indian designs the interest outlasted a career as asa asa asa a model on both coasts She transferred the designs to pottery after alter her husband moved to the Green River missile test complex as supervisor sup sup- of the launch facility When Gelos opened the Moonlighter Gift Shop at Thompson hompson Jacquie intensified her ier study of pottery making At t last she said she felt she shead had ad found her pitch nitch in the theart theart art rt world When a college art professor stopped at the roadside roadside road- road side Ide shop and admired her work vork she gained the confidence confidence confidence dence she needed Study no nomore nomore nomore more he be cautioned her Such an original style should not be tampered with By this time Joe had su su- to the lure of pottery f finishing touches on a mug soon to make I its appearance on the shelves of Moab's new Trading Post I Roadrunner Pottery Being Mod Made Here making and they opened their factory In Moab In conjunction conjunction conjunction con con- junction with the Canyon Canyon- lands Trading Post They wholesale and retail many Indian craft Items and all aU tribes are represented in pottery designs The popular popular popular lar Roadrunner however Id Identifies identifies identifies id- id their wares Both authentic ancient and cor contemporary temporary Indian design design is reproduced on the wheel- wheel thrown high fired stoneware and while it retains the mystery mystery mystery mys mys- tery and beauty of the fast disappearing art it is completely completely completely com com- functional Even the pottery ramekins are arc ovenproof oven oven- proof Joe helps much with the industry now He lie mixes batter batter batter bat ter pours molds and even built the potters potter's wheel It is talented brushes that sketch the fanciful fanciful fanciful fan fan- designs that Identify their work and she throws which to spectators is that first blob of soft clay tossed on the wheel where It is hand formed with the aid of centrifugal centrifugal centrifugal cen cen- force Personalized occasional gifts are Roadrunner specials For Christmas the little creatures donned gay stocking caps and holly hony wreath ties at Easter they may be hatching a nest of eggs or playing peek-a-boo peek with bunnies Right at the moment they are smooching on mugs and dishes to make Moab sweethearts sweethearts sweethearts sweet sweet- hearts feel special on Valentines Valentine's Valentines Valentine's Valentines Valentine's Valen Valen- tines tine's Day The Gelos take orders for the gift items and names and messages are incorporated incorporated incorporated in in- in the pottery sighs if customers desire Perhaps for summer visitors visitors visitors tors Roadrunners will carry carry carry car car- carI I ry a message from the Can- Can country such as as- as Remember me you met me meIn mein mein in Moab |
