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  SHARDS: Growing Up With Fulper Pottery CLICK ON  MY SISTER JULIE NEXT TO THE MONUMENTAL AMPHORA FOR DETAILS OF THE OCT.13th READING AND SLIDE SHOW IN PRINCETON, NJ The event is free, no registration required. And, to whet your appetites, here are some bite-size quotes from the essays I’ll be reading: “When a treasuredContinue reading “CLICK PIC FOR DETAILS…”

 AT LAST! FULPER GLAZE NOTEBOOKS FIND HOME AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY’S MARQUAND LIBRARY OF ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY From its 50-year hiding place under the eaves in the attic of the family home, to the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works for experimentation, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to be digitized and consulted for the book, AmericanContinue reading “Notebooks Donated to Princeton…”

      OUPS! If this post looks bizarre, and does not include zee audio, click here: https://annefulper.com/                                                                          Continue reading “3 POSTCARDS FROM PARIS”

For my sister, Agnes Fulper, 1937-2025 Listen to audio version, read by the author, or read full text below. When someone says the phrase, “You see, everything happens for a reason”, a cavalcade of senseless atrocities flashes before my eyes, like clicking through the tiny celluloid squares of an old View Master; …lynchings, beheadings, starvingContinue reading “Disturbing the Dust”

Or read it yourself below! (either way – scroll to the bottom to see Silvère’s illustration in full.)    The Night Nurse        In a 2005 interview, the cartoonist R Crumb, announced, “I’m 61. That’s old age…once you pass 60 you can’t call yourself middle aged anymore.”  So, according to the author ofContinue reading “The Night Nurse”

TALL is my seventh story, published by the Journal of the American Art Pottery Association. There are fifteen essays in this collection so far, but TALL was among the first written with the premise of using different pieces of Fulper Pottery to tell stories about my family. It remains one of my favorites. CLICK ONContinue reading “TALL”

For me, artichokes signify spring. Even as we speak, they are forming underground, waiting for the soil to warm them up, so that new growth can happen. And like all things that depend on the elements for survival, they too are confused by the weather. But the artichoke is stalwart. The shoots come out first,Continue reading “ARTICHOKE”

Listen to Burn On, Brief Candle read by the author: Or read full text below: BURN ON, BRIEF CANDLE! Wee Willie Winkie, Hamlet’s dad, the Bronte sisters, all would have benefitted from a candlestick with a protective backing like a hood against the draft, when they were forced to travel around the house in theContinue reading “Burn On, Brief Candle”

Listen to Bride and Cupie Dolls, read by the author (check out the bride and groom triptych at bottom of page), or read text below that: =”https://annefulper.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/cupid-bride-and-groom.m4a”%5D%5B/audio%5D When I got married for the 2nd time, a dozen years after a brief dress rehearsal marriage that ended in divorce, my sister Julie was in charge ofContinue reading “Bride and Groom Cupie Dolls”

The art pottery journal which has published some of my essays over the past couple of years, asked me to write an article about how my sisters and I created a tile business based on our grandfather’s glaze recipe notebooks that we found in the attic. If you scroll down and click on the JournalContinue reading “Legacy in the Attic; the Story of Fulper Tile”