Square Dancing: Creating a Diamond-Shaped Baking Dish with an Undulating Rim on the Pottery Wheel
It’s workshop season so today I thought I would present a project that was inspired by a workshop demonstration. Years … Read More
Tag: design
Pottery Careers: Expert Insights into Making a Living as a Potter
For many of us in the Ceramic Arts Network community, making pottery is something we wished we were doing more … Read More
Techniques for Carving Clay Patterns on a Plate
There are a multitude of decorative effects you can create when carving clay, from the slip inlay technique to low … Read More
Pottery Illustrated: Tile Shapes and Patterns
Tiles shapes and patterns hand-drawn images. Drawn by Robin Ouellette. … Read More
A Captivated Imagination
Drawing inspiration from these films, I’m primarily interested in their set and prop design. I address the monocultural phenomenon by … Read More
Kinetic Function
An idea of ritual accompanies the use of functional art. Interacting with objects that improve your daily routine and enrich … Read More
Clay as a Canvas
It’s important to me that my work is both functional and highly decorative. I combine handbuilt and wheel-thrown elements in … Read More
Dissecting Plaid
The representation of humanness and connection has always been important to me in my work. I illustrate these things through … Read More
Surfacing Memories
Observing this collection of artifacts uncovered memories I had of these ever-present ornaments. I could not have described any of … Read More
Balance and Comfort
After all these years making pottery, mugs are still my favorite things to create. Like small sculptural exercises, they offer … Read More
