Yesterday, I delivered several dozen new mugs to my home cafe away from home, Vine Sourdough Bakery and cafe, in Gainesville. Most of the mugs are from late 2017 and early 2018 firings, though a few were fired as far back as 2015. I’ll now sit back at Vine for a few weeks and enjoy […]
Two late January glaze firings in the District Clay Center gas kiln were successful enough that I will be able to bring a slew of pretty nice new mugs with me to Florida in early February. I’m still having issues with two key glazes — White Salt and Woo Blue — but I’ve successfully substituted […]
It can be a challenge to fire an unfamiliar kiln for the first, or even the fourth, time. The Bailey 34/22 at the District Clay Center has been no exception. I’ve now fired the DCC kiln four times and am still a long way from understanding, not to mention mastering, it. Unlike all the other […]
Longtime pal and fellow potter Gwen Fitzgerald will be joining me for a holiday clay sale, Saturday, Dec. 9, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. , in my new home, at 10205 Leslie St, Silver Spring, MD. Gwen and I met at Glen Echo Pottery in the early 2000s, we’ve remained good friends since, and […]
A lovely workshop with Gay Smith at the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill (TCA), on Cape Cod, ended today. The 5-day workshop, called Fresh Approaches to Functional Pots, was a hands-on affair, and while I attended Gay’s morning demonstrations, I spent the afternoons working on work from home that couldn’t wait. I […]
I have posted pots from both my 2015 workshops at Alfred University and my March 2017 firing at the Morean Center for Clay in St Petersburg, in the Gallery’s Still Kiln Warm section. The Alfred firings marked the first time in about seven years that pots of mine were fired by someone other than me, […]
As a result of a couple of rookie mistakes — too stupid to mention — my first firing in two years — at the Morean Center for Clay, in St Pete — was less than splendid. (The kiln itself fired superbly, as always.) But, the combination of just getting back in the kiln saddle again […]
According to this blog, I last fired my work a little less than two years ago — June 2015 — if you discount work that was fired for me at the Alfred University workshop in July 2015. Next week, I’ll be firing again, at the Morean Center for Clay, in St Petersburg, Fl. The firing […]
Eighteen months after throwing for the last time, and 15 months after moving to Silver Spring, Md, I’m on the wheel again. In my new home studio. The studio is in a 22′ x 11′ converted sun-room, with spectacular, natural light. The features I’m most proud of are a long, narrow work/wedging table, which I […]
I will be conducting a 4-hour, demonstration-only workshop covering how to increase the size of pots you can throw, on Saturday, October 24th; 10 am to 2 pm; at Art Alley studio, 716 N Main St, Gainesville. The workshop will cover cylindrical forms — including jars, vases and pitchers — and plates and platters. In […]