ORCAS ISLAND POTTERY


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Orcas Island Pottery
is a growing, living thing
It's like a river
.. .you can't step into it
in the same place twice

.Julia Valentine Crandall, 1969

	OIP was started as a studio pottery in 1945 by Joe and Marclay Sherman
A four place set of these blue and white dishes were traded for the old hand hewn log cabin that sits on the property.
	Julia Valentine Crandall purchased the pottery in 1953.
Julia Crandall loading a kiln.
	Trudy Erwin, second generation, in the 1970s.

Syd Exton, third generation and current owner of Orcas Island Pottery

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