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A Brunch Favorite!

Enjoy mixing your brunch Bloody Mary a beautiful pitcher by artist Jennifer Allen. Stateside Vodka makes it a party! Serve your favorite snacks on a Jennifer Allen platter for the perfect Sunday Brunch!

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Donor - Jennifer Allen, Stateside Vodka, and Tracy Segal

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Platter and Pitcher - Jennifer Allen

Stateside Vodka

Tracy Segal

Statement

My focus is to express sentiments of beauty and joy through tactile, handmade pots.

Whether forming a vase that decorates a room or producing dinnerware that celebrates a meal, my work is made to honor and enhance the rhythms of home life. Driven to create for special occasions, I visualize the holiday table brimming with food, flowers and candlelight. While I enjoy the vibrant energy encircling a festive gathering, I find the contemplative moments sipping a morning cup of coffee equally as invigorating. My work is intended to live in these instances of physical and psychological nourishment.

As a lover of textiles and sewing, I use two dimensional templates to build three dimensional forms out of slabs. I utilize details such as folds, seams, darts, pleats, tufts and ruffles to relate to the craft of a seamstress. It is important that these methods of construction are evident in each finished piece. Furthermore, decorative imagery is gathered from specific textile sources created during times of optimism and progress: post WWII textiles, Arts and Crafts Era designs and Edo period kimono fabrics. I render motifs and stamp textural patterns in order to communicate sense of wonder and merriment.

Determined to keep "handmade" an essential part of the contemporary home, my ongoing focus is to reinforce personal sentiments of beauty, joy, nourishment and celebration. Whether it's a festive meal shared by many or a cup of hot cocoa indulged by one, I remain motivated by moments when pottery is in use. By making thoughtful, useful, handcrafted pottery for the domestic landscape, I am inspired to enhance the home, engage the hand, and enliven the spirit.