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Clay Blog Review: October 2017

November 6, 2017 by Brandon "Fuzzy" Schwartz 1 Comment

Below you will find the best pottery blogging from October.

Clay Blog Review: October 2017

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The Can’t Miss

What were the “must read” pottery blog posts during the past month?

  • Pottery Making Blog: Clay Blog Review: September 2017
  • Linda Starr: Butter Dish Template Tribulations
  • CFile – Contemporary Ceramic Art + Design: Exhibition | Mastery is a Dead End: Daniel Johnston in Santa Fe
  • meesh’s pottery: Process
  • Fetishghost Studios: Summer Study Session
  • Gary Jackson: My Favorite Demo : Not-So-Basic Bowls

Process and Technique

What do pots look like during the process and how are they made?

  • Peter Gregory: Porcelain Paperweights. One important step remains… Hammer and Chisel!
  • Courtney Martin: Pattern reveal! I love my job. #courtneymartinpottery #
  • Courtney Martin: Square tray. #courtneymartinpottery #woodfire #slabbuil
  • Tony Clennell: Shock Treatment
  • Whynot Pottery: What I am working on
  • Linda Starr: Curved Top Butter Dish
  • Whynot Pottery: Monday, Monday
  • Linda Starr: Butter Dish Number 3
  • Linda Starr: Leftover Clay
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  • Barb Rogers: Christmas ornament project
  • Liz Crain Ceramics: You Go Back In The Studio and Apologize to That Clay!
  • Barb Rogers: Combining things vase
  • Courtney Martin: Basket in progress. #ceramicbasket #courtneymartinpotte
  • Rachel Dorn: Decals and Firing
  • Jenni Ward: New Video: In the Studio with Jenni Ward

  • Musing About Mud: technical tuesday: Ann Ruel Pottery
  • Gary Jackson: Details.
  • Linda Starr: Using Leftover Slab Cutoffs
  • Linda Starr: Lots of Glazing To Do
  • Tony Clennell: Taking the plastic off the chesterfield
  • Kim Murton: Process photo’s- making work for “Little Things” at Guardino Gallery December
  • Gary Jackson: Making Masks…. Without A Minute To Spare
  • Gary Jackson: Glazing… Not My Favorite Day
  • Gary Jackson: Soda Kiln : Loaded & Ready

Tips and Technical

How can I become a more efficient or knowledgeable potter?

  • Clay King-How To: How to Read a Glaze Formula
  • Musing About Mud: technical tuesday with Arthur Halvorsen
  • Handbuilder’s Magazine » Free Blog Category Feed: ClayScapes Pottery Glazes — Our Review
  • meesh’s pottery: Rules were meant to be broken?
  • Musing About Mud: technical tuesday: Two Simple Ways to Get Started on Sculpting a Bust

Finished Work

Where can I see inspiring pottery?

  • New Day Pottery: Carolina Clay Matter Pottery Festival
  • Musing About Mud: emerging artist: Virginia Eckinger
  • CFile – Contemporary Ceramic Art + Design: Spotted | UPDATED The White Edition – Twisted Forms, Fungal Vessels and more!
  • Acorn Pottery: Where Catfish Bloom
  • Patricia Griffin Ceramics: Woot! Workshop wonders!
  • Whynot Pottery: Button, button
  • Lucien M. Koonce: Shino Splendor
  • Gillian McMillan — Rara Avis: Birds flying Air Canada
  • Rachel Dorn: Central Washington Artists’ Exhibition
  • Céramique d’art – RSS: Artisanat d’art
  • Gaea Ceramic Bead and Art Studio Blog: Recent Work…
  • Pic Works Pottery: Recent work August 2017
  • Courtney Martin: It was a good firing y’all. This little guy was the fir
  • Musing About Mud: emerging artist: Wade Folger MacDonald
  • Barb Rogers: Mugshot Monday
  • andy priestman: Photo
  • Courtney Martin: Square tray. #courtneymartinpottery #woodfire #craft #c
  • meesh’s pottery: Black and White
  • Courtney Martin: Zipper plate. #courtneymartinpottery #sprucepinepotters
  • Céramique d’art – RSS: Steen Kepp céramiste
  • Lucien M. Koonce: Honorable Mention
  • Rachel Dorn: What’s On Your Plate and Mug
  • Barb Rogers: “We shall see”
  • Musing About Mud: emerging artist: Kyle Johns
  • Musing About Mud: monday morning eye candy: Jason Walker
  • meesh’s pottery: Green and Shino
  • Shaun Hall’s Raku Ceramics Blogspot: Firing new work
  • Courtney Martin: Raw clay stars, white diamonds. #courtneymartinpottery
  • CFile – Contemporary Ceramic Art + Design: Exhibition | A Tribute to 70 Years of Ceramics from Atelier Buffile
  • Fetishghost Studios: Pleasure vs Happiness
  • andy priestman: Photo
  • Fetishghost Studios: R and D of WinterNight
  • Whynot Pottery: fall is in the air?
  • Gillian McMillan — Rara Avis: Other pots at Contemporary Ceramics Centre
  • Barb Rogers: Getting ready for a show
  • Fetishghost Studios: False Choise

It’d be far better to violate a piece’s passivity and fail than to just give up and settle for mediocrity.

  • Céramique d’art – RSS: Elise Poivet/La Maladresse céramiste d’art
  • BHClaysmith – Atom: Earthenware Wall Pockets
  • Shaun Hall’s Raku Ceramics Blogspot: New Gallery work
  • Lucy Fagella Pottery: Little Lidded Boxes
  • Céramique d’art – RSS: Sophie Luline artiste plasticienne
  • Fetishghost Studios: Line em Up
  • Naomi Linehan: glass melted into pottery dishes
  • (title unknown): It’s fall, time to raku!
  • Linda Starr: Butter Dishes
  • Clay and Ginger: Just shipped out my biggest order of yarn bowls to date. A total…
  • Courtney Martin: Plate. #courtneymartinpottery #woodfire #contemporarycr
  • Tony Clennell: You calling me yella?
  • Fetishghost Studios: Free Choise 
  • Linda Starr: Pedestal Cat Food Bowl
  • Tony Clennell: Whaddya made outta?
  • Musing About Mud: emerging artist: Tim Sherman
  • Rachel Dorn: Decal Mugs
  • Musing About Mud: monday morning eye candy: Hannun Lyn
  • Blog – Clay By Laura: Reading Some Meaning Into Words
  • Fetishghost Studios: Explore vs Exploit 

Thoughts

What can I ponder while making pottery and ceramic art?

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Interviews and Podcasts

What do potters have to say?

  • The Potters Cast: Learning to be an Entrepreneur | Liz Pechacek | Episode 358
  • Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast: 192: Brian Harper on building sculpture and community. Special guest Carole Epp on The Crafted Dish.
  • The Potters Cast: Examining Creativity | Colby Charpentier | Episode 359
  • The Potters Cast: Growing The pottery Business Through Fairs | Annie Quigley | Episode 360
  • CFile – Contemporary Ceramic Art + Design: Pop-Up Shop | Amy Santoferraro’s Ruminations on Macaroni
  • CFile – Contemporary Ceramic Art + Design: Podcast | Casita Confessions with Garth Clark + Cannupa Hanska Luger
  • The Potters Cast: How to Test an Idea | Kristen McDermaid | Episode 361
  • The Potters Cast: The Story of Growlerfest | Brad Klem | Episode 362
  • The Potters Cast: Discussing Social Media | Ruth Greenberg, Sharron Greenwood, Rabun Thompson | Episode 363
  • The Potters Cast: Bringing Nature to Cathy | Cathy Franzi | Episode 364
  • CFile – Contemporary Ceramic Art + Design: Podcast | Casita Confessions with Garth Clark + Avra Leodas
  • Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast: 193: Forrest Middelton, Arash Shirinbab, and Raeshma Razvi on the spiritual nature of creativity
  • The Potters Cast: Benefits of a Cooperative | Mollie Bosworth | Episode 365
  • The Potters Cast: A Monster Maker | Kevin “Turkey” Merk | Episode 366
  • Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast: 194: Maggy Rozycki Hiltner on using found embroidery to challenge social norms

Opportunities

What’s out there for potters?

  • Musing About Mud: technical tuesday: Mimi L. Belleau’s “Technology of Ceramic Materials”
  • Musing About Mud: employment opportunity – Curator & Gallery Coordinator @ Red Lodge Clay Center
  • Musing About Mud: Help Save Inspirations Studios
  • Clay Club: Call to Artists for The Ubiquitous Bowl
  • Musing About Mud: call for entry: The Cup Show 2017 @ Clay Arts Vegas
  • CFile – Contemporary Ceramic Art + Design: Jobs | Wayne State University Seeks Assistant Art Professor (Ceramics)

The Rest

What else do potters blog about?

  • Gillian McMillan — Rara Avis: TriCity Potters
  • Lucy Fagella Pottery: Newness in the Pottery Studio
  • Joel Cherrico Pottery: 5 Potters Who Embody The Art of Business
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  • Tony Clennell: Sketchy
  • Blog – Clay By Laura: Celebrating All Things Hand Made!
  • Musing About Mud: monday morning eye candy: The Crafted Dish
  • Mea Rhee: The Law of the Craft Show
  • CFile – Contemporary Ceramic Art + Design: NewsFile | UPDATED Alex Chinneck’s Twisted Chimneys, SOFA Chicago + more!
  • Musing About Mud: movie day: One The Road – Nathalie Domingo
  • Tony Clennell: The Cactus Lounge Flame Throwers
  • NCECA Blog: Remembering Elmer Craig
  • John Bauman: If Poets Were Potters — Installment #4
  • Tony Clennell: On Strike!
  • Catherine White: circular gifts
  • Anna’s Ceramics: Challenged

Thanks for reading!

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Comments

  1. Linda Starr says

    November 7, 2017 at 2:15 am

    thanks for the lists and for including my blog

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