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Arts & Entertainment

Exhibit: "Artful Eating, Tablescape"

Your table can be a showcase for those with a taste for fine art as well as fine dining.

All three courses are canvases for the clay artists at the Torpedo Factory Art Center's Scope Gallery in the "Artful Eating: Tablescape" show.

For starters, the cheeseball craves an incised appetizer tray, the brie bakes better in a handmade ovenproof bowl and that veggie tray could use an artisan chip and dip. Potatoes will not be pasty in some warm woodfired pottery, green beans will look luscious in a glazed covered casserole and turkey will be terrific on a textured platter. Spoon on the gravy with an artist-sculpted ladle and finish the table with a fruit-themed dish of cranberry relish.

Yams yearn for a sweetly-painted oval server and that carrot-raisin salad needs a squared dish. Ambrosia is more heavenly in a salad bowl of sky blue. Salad is greener in a flared seafoam bowl and pie is more pumpkin on a plate glazed brilliant vermillion.

Finish the evening showing the etchings on your pottery and conversing about the creative clay from our kilns.

The Ceramic Guild show runs October 31 to December 4,  closed on Thanksgiving Day; hours are Monday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., with Thursdays open until 9 p.m. The gallery is located at 105 North Union Street, ground floor Studio 19, Alexandria, VA. 22314. For further information, call Scope Gallery at 703-548-6288 or visit www.torpedofactory.org/galleries/scope.

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