{"id":789,"date":"2013-09-24T20:24:22","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T20:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mullalys128.com\/wp-sept-15\/?page_id=789"},"modified":"2013-09-24T20:24:22","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T20:24:22","slug":"day-steve","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/mullalys128.com\/wp-sept-15\/index.php\/ceramic-artist\/day-steve\/","title":{"rendered":"Day, Steve"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Petrified Forest<\/em> began ten years ago when\u00a0Steve Day’s\u00a0<\/strong>six-year-old son wanted a bird feeder for the deck. They soon hammered one together out of scrap wood and a couple of pieces of window glass. It fed the birds ‘OK’, but soon fell apart from the ravages of the squirrels and the weather.<\/span><\/p>\n

On a quest now for a material that was both chew-proof and impervious to the elements, he began experimenting with his wife’s stoneware clay.<\/span><\/p>\n

With no formal pottery training, but a strong design sense developed while living in Japan, coupled with hands-on skills from silkscreen printmaking and metal sculpture, he created a truly unique bird feeder that became the Petrified Forest’s<\/em> first product.<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the past decade, with technical advice from his wife, Brenda, Day has created his own forming, coloring, and firing methods. He has developed a very personal, natural style; a customer once said of her birdbath, “It almost looks like something I found in the woods!”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

His work has grown in scope and refinement, and is now available in over 100 craft galleries, garden centers, and museum shops across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

The studio is located in beautiful, rural Berks County, Pennsylvania, in a 1781 farmhouse, grist mill and barn. The surrounding 15 acres provide an ample supply of native leaves, ferns, and grasses for Steve Day<\/strong>\u00a0and his studio assistants.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Petrified Forest began ten years ago when\u00a0Steve Day’s\u00a0six-year-old son wanted a bird feeder for the deck. They soon hammered one together out of scrap wood and a couple of pieces of window glass. It fed the birds ‘OK’, but soon fell apart from the ravages of the squirrels and the weather. On a quest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-789","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mullalys128.com\/wp-sept-15\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mullalys128.com\/wp-sept-15\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mullalys128.com\/wp-sept-15\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mullalys128.com\/wp-sept-15\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mullalys128.com\/wp-sept-15\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mullalys128.com\/wp-sept-15\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/789\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mullalys128.com\/wp-sept-15\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mullalys128.com\/wp-sept-15\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}