A visitor peruses shelves of pots at the Cuellar’s place in 2023. Photos: Morgan Pearson
The 32nd annual St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour will take place May 10–12. Participating studios will be open to the public from 10 a.m.–6 p.m. May 10–11; and from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. May 12. Entrance to all studios is free.
This year’s hosts are Linda Christianson, Guillermo and Alana Cuellar, Peter Jadoonath, Janel Jacobson, Ani Kasten, Matthew Krousey, Jeff Oestreich and Will Swanson. An interactive Google Map for the tour is available at minnesotapotters.com.
Guillermo and Alana Cuellar stand alongside potters who participated in the 2023 St. Croix Valley Potter Tour at the Cuellar’s studio and showroom. From left to right: Sue Tirrell, Montana; Steven Rolf, Wisconsin; Beth Bolgla, New York, France; Jim Lorio, Colorado; Nick Earl, Minnesota; Guillermo Cuellar, Minnesota (Host); Dick Cooter, Minnesota; Alana Cuellar, Wisconsin (Host); Minsoo Yuh, Georgia.
While some visitors try to do the entire tour in a day, ArtReach St. Croix executive director Heather Rutledge makes a weekend of it, taking time to visit each studio with her mom, who drives up from Iowa for Mother’s Day Weekend. “It’s really something that, in its niche, is very famous—and it’s right here in our backyard. How lucky,” Rutledge says.
