[Qotw: Participants Question Pool For Future Qotw's]

Thanks Sputty. Dante is an interesting character. He was banished from Florence and ended up in Ravenna where he is buried. There is an empty tomb  in santa Croce in Florence , not far from his home, now a museum. Florence wants him back. They have been feuding for a long time.

Marcia

[Qotw: Participants Question Pool For Future Qotw's]

I am writing an article about a woman whose work I admire. During our interview, she said she came to realize she didn't have to keep going here and there to study , apprentice with a Korean master, work collaboratively with an artist on a collaborative installation for a museum. She has settled in Barcelona for the past 5 years and realizes the journey in clay never ends even if you remain in one place. 

so my question would be: where has your journey in clay taken you; either geographically, aesthetically, philosophically, product wise? Otherwise to quote an ancient philosopher and I think it was a Dante,  but I may be wrong. he said literature can be interpreted : literally, metaphorically, allegorically, or metaphysically. so your answer can be in the previously mentioned categories.

 

Marcia

[Ceramics Monthly Calendar]

On 6/18/2010 at 6:18 AM, Jessica Knapp said:

I just wanted to add that if your event is a few months away, you should also consider submitting information about it to Ceramics Monthly for inclusion in the Calendar section in print and online.

Here's the link to the submission page. Once you're there, just scroll down to the listings section:

http://ceramicartsdaily.org/ceramics-monthly/submit-content/

Images and press releases about exhibitions are also welcome, and can be submitted to editorial@ceramics.org, or for numerous images, on cd to our mailing address: 600 N. Cleveland Ave. Ste. 210, Columbus, OH 43082.

Images and press releases are considered for possible inclusion in the Upfront section of the magazine. The editorial staff reviews submissions once per month.

Both of these options are free.

Jessica

Dear Jessica 

In the 15 downloadable ^6 glazes there are typos on each glaze saying 06.  FYI

Marcia

[Ceramics Monthly Calendar]

I made mine months ago. Staying at the Drury. 

Marcia

[Qotw: Participants Question Pool For Future Qotw's]

Min, That is a torturous question.

 

 

[Important Ceramic Artists Who Should Be Known]

I just listed contemporary artists on another thread. I want to add this one here. 

http://www.jessicaputnamphillips.com

She is a female combat veteran expressing her experiences in chinaware. I saw her work at the garden party show at NCECA and was at the panel on the GI bill and ceramics. 

I love her work.

[Important Ceramic Artists Who Should Be Known]

 

You know what. . . Why don't we start a list. . . Marcia listed:  Yanagi, author of the "Unknown Craftsman", Bernard Leach, Hamada, and the young Rudy Autio and Peter Voulkos  Others were Beatrice Wood and Otto Heino. Name names. let me know if we should do a separate strand and I will set it up. Who do you know of that you feel is important?

 

 

best,

Pres

Charles Fergus Binns

Edward Orton Jr

George E. Ohr  

Don Reitz

Johann Friedrich Böttger

 

lt

 

 

Late 19th and early 20th century: Adelaide Robineau, founder and editor for Keramos magazine and the Syracuse national competition that developed into the Everson Museum in Syracuse. Taught at the Women's University in St. Louis with Taxile Doat in the teens.

Maria Longworth Nichols Storer, founder of Rookwood Pottery in Cincinnati, 

Mary Chase Perry Stratton founder of Pewabic Pottery in Detroit

http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/sara-galner-saturday-evening-girls-and-paul-revere-pottery

Sara Gainer and the Saturday Evening Girls and the Paul Revere Pottery  on Boston

[Qotw: Participants Question Pool For Future Qotw's]

what part of your production do you feel is the most creative outlet in the overall from start to finish. From the first design , to making, decorating ,trimming, bisque, more decorating, glaze, firing, presenting/selling/ marketing?

Marcia

[Need Help Pricing A Sitter Kiln Model Lt-3K]

The Potters' Attic on Facebook is for buying and selling. Take a look at what kilns are going for there. This is a smallish kiln. Is it 17 w x 27 D? interior dimensions. It looks like a nice little kiln. Has some problems with glaze on the floor but the bricks look to be in decent condition. Not computer controls, old time setter. I'd think $100-200 or so depending on what you include like furniture.

 

Marcia

[Teaching Ceramics to Adults]

Learning to throw does take a lot of practise. AN instructor can only do so much. I'd say it takes hours /week of practice to get it. Michael Cardew said it takes 7 years before the level of mastering the skill. It is like playing a musical instrument. It takes focus and practice.

 

Marcia

[Alumina And Wax]

Porcelain tends to fuse to itself during the glaze firing. Sometimes the feet also fuse to the kiln shelf. So using Alumina prevents both of these things from happening.

 

Marcia

[Alumina And Wax]

I use less too. But I add it to diluted wax. Probably about 2 tsp to 8 oz.

Marcia

[Alumina And Wax]

That's possible. I dilute the blue wax to get it to brush on easily.

Did you dilute your wax?

 

Marcia

[Alumina And Wax]

I have used alumina in wax on porcelain for many years and never saw anything like that. I usually just brush is one both sides and the bottom for porcelain.

I can only think that it may have dripped during application. Was your wax white?

For that process, I use the Aftosa wax.

I like it because it is bluish and can be seen. It can come off if you make a mistake and catch it immediately.

Marcia