About a half dozen totem poles sprouted recently in The Villages, thanks to members of the Lakeside Pottery Club.
The project was launched after a friend of Mary Kline spotted a ceramic totem pole in a New Mexico gift store.
“Don’t buy that; I’ll make you one,” Kline told her friend.
Objects used in the totems were hand-built, thrown on a potter’s wheel or extruded, said club coordinator Anne Carlson.
“They are mounted on steel poles with concrete bases,” she said. “They were bisqued and then glazed-fired before being fitted together on support devices.”
Carlson said the idea for her totem came from rock sculptures she saw while on a Maine vacation. Mary Anne Wilson named her totem “Tea Time” because it was inspired by a tea party with friends.
