Category: pottery
With the turn of the equinox, which literally translates to “equal night,” meaning equal length of night and day hours, there is a sense of
Read MoreToday, as I was hand-building a ceramic piece for a work in progress, the studio was unusually quiet: no frenzy of students, no classes rolling
Read MoreA small sherd to share with you: potter Warren Mackenzie has passed away at the age of 94. He was something of a potter’s potter,
Read MoreToday’s sherd takes its cue not from a potter/ceramist, but from the iconoclastic Watazumi Doso Roshi: a shakuhachi (Japanese flute) priest. To
Read MoreThis is a return to the San Ildefonso potter Maria Martinez. I was just talking with a ClayHouse ceramist last Thursday about the merits of
Read MoreThe temperature is incrementally rising and dropping. Spring is figuring itself out. I observe this seasonal shift in my own practice as a
Read MoreBe in conversation with your self, your materials, your process, one and all. And welcome the off-centered moments in your life, of which there
Read MoreToday’s sherd travels to Kutch, India, to catch a glimpse traditional methods of pottery making, as it was in 1997. Interestingly enough, the
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