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== Service Activities ==
== Service Activities ==
Autocrating, cooking at events, fundraising, teaching, and running the guild. I travel as a merchant and teach about historical ceramics throughout CAID, the West, An Tir, and in the past to Mid Realm and beyond.  
Autocrating, cooking at events, fundraising, teaching, and running the guild. She's done chronicler and while doing the job, the Fret Knot was nominated for the Black Fox award (and was actually nominated twice, the first time she helped she friend get it while she was in the position). As a merchant, she teaches about historical ceramics throughout CAID, the West, An Tir, and in the past to the Mid Realm and beyond. She also gives largess both locally (Baronial level) as well as Kingdom level.


=== Offices & Positions ===
=== Offices & Positions ===

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Preferred title: Not specified
Their Pronouns: Not specified
Resides: Barony of Altavia
Status: Active
Awards: Visit the Caid Order of Precedence
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Baroness Asakura no Mashi (her preferred name, previously known as Artemisia di Serena). Apprentice to Master Hroar sviðandi.

Persona

Asakura no Mashi is an Edo Period (16th Century) Japanese potter who befriended the local Portuguese and Dutch tradesmen. Because of her European friends, she is taught about the world beyond the potteries where she lives and trades.

A&S Interests

While Ceramics is her main focus and interest, Mashi (or Mercy as some do call her) also does Metalworking, glass (fused and slumping), cooking, brewing, cheesemaking, gardening, painting, drawing, photography, and papercraft.

A&S Competitions Entries

  • 2001 Festival of the Rose (Spring)
    • Won 1st Place Functional Arts" for my pipkins (pre-Pentathlon contest with Laurels judging).
  • 2001 Caid A&S Pentathlon (August)
    • Brewing/Medicinal (Cordial) -- 2nd place, Apprentice
    • Needlework/Needlepoint (Bargello) -- 1st place, Apprentice
    • Tools/Other Items (Cable Knife) 1st place, Apprentice
    • Visual Arts/Functional Ceramics (Functional, Other) -- Ceramics 1st & 2nd Artisan Two pieces, two pipkins.
  • 2003 Caid A&S Pentathlon (March)
    • Culinary/Medicinal (Vinegar) -- 2nd place, Apprentice
    • Fiber/Needlework/Needlepoint (13th Century German Needlework Bag) -- 1st place, Apprentice
    • Functional/Herbcraft/Culinary Herbcraft (Vertgay Spice Mixture) 2st place, Apprentice
    • Visual Arts/Functional Ceramics (Functional, Other) -- Ceramics 1st & 2nd Artisan Two pieces, one pipkin and an aquamanile.

Service Activities

Autocrating, cooking at events, fundraising, teaching, and running the guild. She's done chronicler and while doing the job, the Fret Knot was nominated for the Black Fox award (and was actually nominated twice, the first time she helped she friend get it while she was in the position). As a merchant, she teaches about historical ceramics throughout CAID, the West, An Tir, and in the past to the Mid Realm and beyond. She also gives largess both locally (Baronial level) as well as Kingdom level.

Offices & Positions

  • Baronial Court Potter (and lady in waiting) to Baroness Ælfwyn Wodende, June, 1999 through 2005.
  • Guildmistress of the Potters' Guild of Caid from 2000 to current.
  • Seneschal of the Barony of Altavia, March, 2000 through May, 2003
  • Chronicler of the Barony of Altavia, May, 2003 through May, 2004
  • Court Potter for the Kingdom of An Tir (Uther and Anahaard), June 2005
  • Court Potter for the Kingdom of the West (Jade and Alanna), June 2005
  • Court Potter for the Kingdom of Caid (Edric IV and Faizah), November 2006
  • Court Potter for the Kingdom of the West (Uther and Kara), January 2007

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Classes Taught

  • CP Prize Cup Project: How to Make a Ceramic Drinking Vessel, Collegium Caidis 2011
  • Beginning Ceramics, Spring Collegium 2010
  • Beginning Ceramics, Spring Collegium 2008
  • Beginning Ceramics, Spring Collegium 2005
  • Beginning Ceramics and Advanced Ceramics, Fall Collegium 2004

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