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Agnes Schubert and winning stonewareAn award winning experienceTWIN FALLS — For Agnes Schubert coming home to Twin Falls has been an award-winning experience.Miss Schubert recently came back to her home town after teaching in California for 25 years and promptly won top honors in the fourth annual art show held at Twin Falls Public Library.Her handmade stoneware compote dish won Best of Show in the pottery division while Gloria Hann of Buhl won the fiber arts competition with a wall hanging made of Idaho wool and cotton.A Twin Falls native, Miss Schubert attended the University of Southern California and returned to Twin Falls where she taught high school art for 11 years.She then taught school in California high schools for 25 years where she studied ceramics as a hobby under Rose Nishio, a well-known Californiapotter.With a group of friends who also took up pottery, she entered her work in several California art shows, and brought it with her to Idaho where she entered a representative sample in the Twin Falls contest.Her win was “absolutely unexpected,” she said.“I entered because I thought it would be a chance for me to meet some other potters in the area,” she said. “I don’t know that I really needed any encouragement, but it (her win) certainly was rewarding.”Miss Schubert said she plans to continue her work with pottery as a hobby. She will convert the garage of her new home in Twin Falls to a pottery workshop and create more pieces.Many of the articles she has created are for display, but she plans to make more utilitarian pieces in the future. Her kitchen is decorated withcasserole dishes, bowls, a soup tureen, a teapot and a salad bowl. In her living room she displays functional vases with built-in drains and many non-functional pieces for decoration.“I plan to continue to do as much as I can,” she said. “It has been absolutely a terrific enjoyment, but it’s just a hobby, really.”Each year the Twin Falls Public Library Board purchases items exhibited in the annual art show. This year the purchases included one from each category.The board selected a wool wall hanging by Susan Wood Roy of Rogerson and a dark greenish brown abstract jug by H. LaVar Steel of Twin Falls.A total of 36 Magic Valley artists entered examples of their work in the show. Don Brown of the Idaho State University Art Department was judge for the contest.
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Twin Falls Times News
Twin Falls, Idaho, US
Thu, Apr 12, 1979
Page 44
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