Pots for Sale

Maury and Teri from Standish, ME came by this morning to buy a few pots! I wanted to remember that it was Spring and that I should make more of these flower pots. So before I wrapped these two pots I snapped this picture. Maury is an avid S & D reader and one of my top customers. She made her yearly trip to the pottery, today, and this year she introduced me to Teri. It was great to see them and send more pots "down east". Thanks (again)!

All the Same, All Different

all in a row

using a technique I saw Phil Rogers use,
pre-trimming the clay at the bottom

the clay's so bright, I have to wear shades

Enough

Turner porcelain in beautiful black and white

There was just enough porcelain at the bottoms of the plates for me to salvage and make handles on the cups!

Stacey Lane In Metalsmith Magazine

Stacey in action in her studio

My wife Stacey is in Metalsmith Magazine's current issue! She's mentioned in an article titled "Seeing Green: Towards Sustainable Jewelry Practices". You can only read the article by getting your own copy at newsstands or subscription.

Not on the cover, but inside the new issue!

So...here is an excerpt just for you!

from the article:

Stacey Lane's playful and lyrical castings are made from recycled metal, though this fact does not inform the work aesthetically. Before ethically sourced metal was available, Lane created a green framework of her own: she returned metal to the system, in the form of scrap, to equal or exceed the amount she was purchasing, thus offsetting her mining footprint. Today Lane only uses ethically sourced metal, and strived to find etically sourced gems. [Muenster] and Lane are among the first studio jewelers to choose ethically sourced material not as a personal exploration, a gimmick, or a passing fad, but because it is simply the right thing to do for the profession, for their consumers, and for the earth.

One of Stacey's work benches.
This is where she works her wax models.
That's what the red stuff is.

Workshop

I'll be teaching in my old stomping grounds of New England this summer at the Snow Farm! It seems a bit early to be talking about a workshop that happens June 20-22nd, but I just wanted to mention it before it filled up. You can see the course description here and also register on the Snow Farm web site. When I lived in Massachussetts I taught here weekly and thought of Snow Farm as a mini Penland. In fact they it's not so mini after all. They offer a wide variety of media, including glassblowing. Also they have a wonderful summer program for young adults. It'll be a great summer weekend. I'll be focussing our efforts on brushwork, but will be making big pots as well! This is a hands on class! Oh, the food is GREAT, too!

25 Lbs of Turner Porcelain

small plates and bowls-3lbs
cups-1lb 2oz
small cup-?

Here's what I did with that bag of TT porcelain that Tom gave me a couple of months(?) ago. Only problem is what am going to do about handles? Hahaha. I guess I'll have to sacrifice one of the pots! I plan on doing some more porcelain and doing a electric cone 6-7 firing in a week o so...

Mark Boyd DIY

Last night, Mark Boyd gave a great talk on tools that can be used to promote one's work or cause. He set up a blog that he used, live, during the talk. You can see what he's done here. I used one of the new tools last night which has a lot of potential, utterli. It is a network of people sharing video and audio, as well as text messages. I haven't had time to delve into the"conversation" but I will be when I have more time. Now for a little porcelain. Check back later!

Hewitt Speech at Catawba

Here is Mark Hewitt's talk from last weekend's Pottery Festival in Hickory, NC. As Alex says, "it's worth the read."

Mark is as good a writer as he is a thinker as he is a potter.

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La Mesa-Phoenix NCECA

3 gallon jar, 2008

for "La Mesa" show
local stoneware, woodfired
special wax resist brushwork

Here is the piece I shipped to Phoenix, AZ for Santa Fe Clay's annual La Mesa show at the 43rd NCECA conference. Another bag wall pot, with fairly heavy [for my kiln] ash deposit near the top shoulder. The handles seem a little small, now that I look at it in this photo, but still ample, I guess, to lift this 3 gallon jar. It has a little incised daisy in there somewhere. Be on the lookout for the show if you're going to Phoenix. I'm sorry that I won't be there this year, but next year I'm planning on heading up to Philadelphia.

3 gallon jar, 2008
side b
for "La Mesa" show