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There she had to have her water hauled in In her final years, Gisela moved back to

to fill the underground storage tank and Arizona, to the rural village area of
make use of the primitive outhouse Harquahala Valley. She had purchased a
facilities, not so typical a choice of lifestyle property across the road from long-time
for a woman then in her 70’s. Saluki people and artist Joy Randal and her
husband David. She had found a house she

She was surely independent and not to be liked in Williams, Arizona which was to be
swayed too much by convention. With an moved, and she had it transported
update to the cabin’s electrical system to the 250 miles to Harquahala Valley. I
accommodate the needs of her kiln, visited her there many times also.
she created her one-room studio oasis
there with her dogs and during those There she continued to work and to also
years created many wonderful pieces. co-breed/import some Azawakh

until her failing health necessitated moving
When in California she also worked at back to California with her daughter,
various times with the Muckenthaler Letizia, who is a teacher in West Hills,
Cultural Center in Fullerton, CA, where she California. Her son, Klaus, also lives with
taught some courses in enameling as his family in Southern California.
well as displaying and selling some of her

work in their gallery. She also belonged to Her unique creative spirit remains with us.
various enamelist guilds and societies.
Jack McGuffin, Wildomar, California, USA.

Two enameled shallow bowls after Amir Shi'Rayân,
donated as trophies to SFAA
by Gisela Cook-Schmidt, mid-1990s.