Welcome to Kristin Pavelka’s pottery website!

The earlier home page used a short welcome and described a studio potter making functional wares in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

The original text ended by inviting questions and comments through the contact page, then offered a mailing-list link. Both actions have been removed. The quotation retains the greeting, medium, functional emphasis, and city-level geography while closing the old contact and marketing routes.

An earlier homepage beside the root

This /home.html page and the later /index.html introduction overlap but are not identical. The later homepage says “Hello!” and adds highly decorated surfaces, daily use, special occasions, one-person making, availability, appointments, and social-media updates. This earlier page is simpler: welcome, functional wares, place, and thanks.

The two addresses represent different stages of the site's structure rather than duplicate search pages. Use the later homepage for the 2022 introduction or continue here through the older portfolio routes.

The welcome's three short ideas—pottery, functional wares, and Eden Prairie—give this page a narrower focus than the later introduction. Its closing thanks also makes it read as a concise landing page rather than a biography, gallery caption, or studio-news post.

Functional wares

“Functional” is not expanded into technical claims on this page. The word tells us the pots were presented in relation to use, but it does not establish current production, food safety, inventory, or a particular method. The illustration supplies atmosphere only. It depicts generic ceramic forms and is not the artist's work.

The older navigation organized those forms into Bowls, Plates, Utensils, and Other, with numbered and dated gallery pages alongside them. The Info page gathers the text-based records.