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Carving the Sealed EarthTry this sgraffito technique with a combination of porcelain and terra sigillata to discover a crisp graphic quality with your drawings.
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An Introduction to ColorWhether you’re working with homemade or commercial glazes, altering a base glaze to discover new color palettes can be easy and fun.
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Editor's Note: Lost SkillsRecently, I’ve been thinking about the basic skills that are handed down from generation to generation and I wonder if our domestic skills are getting lost as we become a more consumer-based and servi
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Pottery Illustrated: HandlesPottery Illustrated Handles
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In the Potter's Kitchen: Pourover Coffee SetThere are so many ways to brew and enjoy coffee. The things I love about making pourover coffee include the rich, bright, and complex flavors, the lush and lively aromas, the deliberate quality of slo
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Flip Your LidWhen handbuilding covered jars, it can be difficult to make a lid that fits well. Over the years I’ve devised a few ways to make handbuilt lids with flanges that fit snugly into the opening of an oval
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Shippiki Cut-Off ToolsMany Japanese pottery tools are highly specialized and sometimes look a bit different from the ones in the US. When you’re throwing off the hump, it’s not easy to cut the bottom of the finished piece
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Deep Layers, High SurfacesI make pots that bring together a range of influences, while the surface textures and colors I use to decorate my pots are largely influenced from the landscape of South-central Alaska where I grew up
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Pretty Plaid PlatesIncising patterns based on favorite plaids provides both depth and personality to these plates.
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Creative Decisions: Behind the ScenesI know many artists who have discovered how to make an object, and they make it, or a version of it, extraordinarily well. Through trial and error, with prototypes, testing materials, experimenting wi
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Goblet with EleganceIn 2010, I participated in the 12-week residency exchange program at Tainan National University of the Arts in Taiwan through Baltimore Clayworks. During the time I spent there and the short visit to
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Dramatic DartingBegin by throwing an 8-inch tall, bottomless cylinder. There’s no need for a foot since this cylinder will be shaped into an oval. Open up the clay into a ring with a 4-inch interior diameter. Then ra
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Veritable GardenDuring my residency at Baltimore Clayworks in Baltimore, Maryland, I developed a body of functional porcelain work inspired by the bold, stylized, floral images found in traditional Japanese textiles.
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Textured PlayTry using DIY carved and bisqued cylinders to roll textures onto slabs and add variety to your forms.
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Editor's Note: Doing the DishesWant to know a secret? I don’t mind washing the dishes. The task represents a bit of down time, often later in the evening after the hectic activity of the day has long subsided.
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Pottery Illustrated: Talavera PatternsPottery Illustrated: Talavera Patterns
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Packing for SuccessThe first time I shipped pots to an exhibition many years ago all five pieces arrived shattered. In retrospect, I did a terrible job packing them, using layers of cardboard with a few pieces of maskin
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In the Potter's Kitchen: Personal CrocksPotpies are the epitome of comfort food. They remind me of dinners as a kid, when my mom would bring a creamy, bubbling potpie to the table. With this in mind, I created personal potpie crocks that br
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Glitter FlashingMy interest in crystals in saturated metallic glazes led me to travel to China several times to research a 12–16th century black-pearl glaze, a component of the tenmoku glaze family. The four remainin
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Studio HousekeepingWhen we have visitors in our studio at MudFire, the most frequent comment is “this place is so clean” followed by “I wish my studio was this clean.” With over 150 people using our studio each month we
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