The 12th Berkshire Pottery Tour,

a self-guided motor tour of 7 working pottery studios around the southern Berkshires, is set for the weekend of Sept. 27-28, with studios open from 10-5 each day .  Admission is free and families are welcome.

Berkshire weather is always beautiful at the end of September, as the leaves move toward their October peak. The potters have been busy all summer making new work. All the studios will display their wares for sale; come experience a diverse array of styles in functional and sculptural ceramics.

The tour runs north-south and east-west, and can be begun at any point, from the Richmond studio of Ben Evans to Paula Shalan in Stockbridge, Berkshire Art Center in Stockbridge, Lorimer Burns in Housatonic, Daniel Bellow in Great Barrington and on to Ellen Grenadier and Michael Marcus in Monterey.

Special guests this year will be Doug Peltzman and Jackie Sedlock at Ben Evans' studio, Alison Palmer at Paula Shalan’s studio, Connie Talbot and Sheilagh Flynn at Ellen Grenadier's, Jordan Colon and Harry Levenstein at Daniel Bellow's studio, Rie McCarthy at Lorimer Burns’ studio, and Hunter Cady, Mariana Vasquez-Crede, and Ingrid Raab at Berkshire Art Center. While at Berkshire Art Center you can tour the studios and see work in the Gallery by a dozen artists who teach classes and workshops year round.

Look for the distinctive orange and white Berkshire Pottery Tour road signs at key turns on the weekend of the event.

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