Today's June Vaughn Arrival!

Today was special delivery day!  

We received our newest Vaughn Pottery piece.  June calls this piece "Supremes".   

It was thrown with Brooklyn red clay which is known for its heavy texture and wonderful red color, evident through the underglazes.  June carved and distorted the clay to achieve their bodies and designs.  She then used underglazes and a bright color palette to duplicate the color used in the fabrics. 

The design flows effortlessly onto the reverse side with two additional ladies carried out in similar color palatte.

Sping Obsession Art Show

Ironstone Vineyard's 23rd Annual Spring Obsession Art Show is off to a great start.  Theme Division entries are in with letters going out to accepted artists later this week. Accepted artists will be delivering their original paintings to Ironstone within the next several weeks, giving the Kautz Family and Marketing Department time to view the originals and decide which will become the Winner and promotional poster for the Obsession Brand for 2020.  The winner will be unveiled at the Food & Wine Pairing event on Opening Saturday, March 7th.  Best to make your reservations early as this event always sells out.

If you are an artist or know an artist, panic not!  You still have plenty of time to get those Open Division entries in.  Due date for these is Saturday, February 1, 2020.  You most certainly can get them in earlier.  Already, many beautiful submission have come in ready to be reviewed by the two review panels. Once accepted into the show, Open Division art works stand a chance to win one of three prizes. First place, $1000.  Second place, $500.  Third place $250.

You may download your entry form from the OPEN Division page above, email cgomez@ironstonevineyards.com for a pdf of the entry or go online to Ironstone's website, www.ironstonevineyards.com and enter there.

Opening weekend, March 7 & 8, accepted artists have a unique opportunity to set up their own booth space inside Ironstone's Alhambra Music Room to display and sell more of their originals, prints or other handmade art projects.  Visitors will have the opportunity to see a broader range of each of the artists works and styles. Artists are on hand to answer questions, demonstrate their techniques and provide a one on one experience for guests. A rare opportunity for all to share and explore art.

If you have any questions about the entry or event, please don't hesitate to email cgomez@ironstonevineyards.com

Mark you calendars now!

Entry Deadline Open Division, February 1.  Event Opening, March 7 & 8.  Food & Wine Pairing event, March 7.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year from all of us to all of you!  

Rachael says Merry New Years too!

She is ready to party!

Merry Christmas

The Kautz Family and staff of Ironstone Vineyards wish you and yours a Very Merry Christmas!

Museum Maggie is Santa's helper this year 

and wants you all to have a Woof'n Holiday!

Ironstone will be closed Christmas day so we can all enjoy the Holiday with our families. See you Thursday!

New Vaughn Pottery piece arrives

Just in!  Here at Ironstone's Heritage Museum we are celebrating the newest arrival from Artist June Vaughn.  

This beautiful piece is thrown on the potters wheel with Brooklyn red which is a heavily iron saturated clay. Carved with spaces for the four beautiful cabochon stones the wet clay lends itself easily to June's careful and artist touch.  

This piece is graced with 4 valuable polished stones which include an ocean jasper, poppy jasper, crazylace agate and a dendrite agate. 

After the bisque and glaze firings the pot is painted and the stones are set in place.. the artwork carving, painting and design is done by June Vaughn . The throwing is done by Rob Sorrin.   

This piece is available for purchase at Ironstone Heritage Museum, listed at $585.

Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols

Sunday, Dec. 22nd.  Ironstone Vineyards will be hosting the Suzuki School of Northern California Music School's rendetition of "Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols" with 2 performances. One at 4 pm, the other at 7 pm.  

These performances are open to the public at no charge. Expect standing room only as this is an annual event drawing "seats full" spectators. 

The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols tells the Christmas story through lively readings and music that epitomizes hope, goodwill and joy.  This performance will include adult & children's Violin and Choral.

Ironstone Vineyards and Ironstone's Heritage Museum will both be open Sunday evening till 8:00 pm, featuring exclusive discounts on jewelry & gift items.

A special "Intermission Menu" will be available as well.

Do stop by, enjoy the show and get a bit of last minute shopping done.

If you would like more information on the Suzuki School, please click on the link below.

https://www.suzukicalifornia.com/more-about-us

Red Shouldered hawk visits Ironstone Museum

We had a visitor yesterday that caused quite a stir.  After chasing a small bird into the area outside the Museum entrance, he became somewhat disoriented when the small bird flittered out through one of the small openings between the outdoor canvas weather walls leaving him trapped in the near enclosed area. He soon found his way out after we raised one of the panels giving him a very large opening to fly through.  Beautiful Red-shoulder Hawk. 

Red-shouldered hawk

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Red-shouldered hawk
Red-shouldered hawk near Blue Cypress Lake, Florida. Menu 0:00 Red-Shoulder hawk call
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Accipitriformes
Family:	Accipitridae
Genus:	Buteo
Species:	B. lineatus
Binomial name
Buteo lineatus (Gmelin, 1788)
Range of B. lineatus      Breeding range     Year-round range     Wintering range

The red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus) is a medium-sized hawk. Its breeding range spans eastern North America and along the coast of California and northern to northeastern-central Mexico. Red-shouldered hawks are permanent residents throughout most of their range, though northern birds do migrate, mostly to central Mexico. The main conservation threat to the widespread species is deforestation.

Happy Thanksgiving

Wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving where ever you are from all of us here at Ironstone