Near the northwest corner of Kansas City’s Jacob Loose Park sits a house peppered with colorful birdhouses and sculpted shrubbery. Beyond that lies a pottery studio where locals swarm each winter to get their hands on local artist Irma Starr’s holiday ornaments.
“I started making them and people liked them,” Starr said about her ornaments. “I’m so grateful to meet so many nice people, and it seems to make them happy, and it’s pretty wonderful when you see people happy.”
Starr, a longtime Kansas City transplant, specializes in 17th century style slipware pottery and uses traditional techniques like combing, feathering, marbling, and slip-trailing, as well as traditional tools like white goose feathers…