Pottery Making Illustrated Articles (Simple)

Used indoors or out, candle lanterns and votives offer soft light and protect the flame from breezes. My lantern design is a twist on the old-school paper lantern project—some of you may remember thos

I have been a huge fan of Mata Ortiz pottery ever since I learned of it quite a few years ago through a children’s book about Juan Quezada Celado, one of the first Mata Ortiz potters. When an opportun

For several years I’ve been making variations of this plate. It’s a set of 3 elements: the plate face, the girdle, and the foot. The plate size and shape are easy to vary. For this wide and only somew

The butter dish, no matter how elaborately designed, in essence, is an informal form reserved for informal dining. The butter dish is the first pot I touch in the morning for making toast, a daily rit

I’m inspired daily by the world around me; my interests range from the microscopic to the celestial. I’m also fascinated with how material, process, and form relate to one another. I explore the co-ex

I have been working with colored clay for more than 25 years, staying mainly with handbuilt work because I thought throwing colored clays was all about mixed-color agateware. While this work is intere

I am a lifelong lover of all things pickled. On visits home to see family, a peek in the fridge is rewarded with gallon jars of eggplant, cayenne peppers, green cherry tomatoes, cloves of garlic, and

Pottery Illustrated Cups and Mugs