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Friday, 6 March 2009

It used to be 30 but now it is 10…

Remember when you were supposed to have an elevator pitch for what you were about — something that could be delivered in the time span of an elevator ride or about 30 seconds. Well – one of the things we learned from Alyson Stanfield was that the elevator pitch has been replace by the 10 [...]

Saturday, 13 December 2008

Workshop with Mata Ortiz potters

Coil just above the rim of the mold.

The Sunday after Thanksgiving found me and a small group of local potters participating in a hands on workshop with a group of Mata Ortiz potters at Crystal Creek farm in the Santa Cruz mountains. First we watched the technique of hand building the pot using [...]

Sunday, 14 September 2008

Learning about Japanese Wood-fired Ceramics

I had the opportunity yesterday to attend a workshop given by Masakazu Kusakabe and Marc Lancet on Japanese Wood-Fired Ceramics. I almost didn’t sign up for this in spite of my love of both the forms and the firing technique. The usual list of excuses – too busy, evening dinner engagement, should be cleaning the [...]