technical tuesday: Woodfiring Workshop at River Song Pottery

by | Jun 30, 2020 | technical tuesday

This short film is about a woodfiring workshop I participated in at River Song Pottery in October of 2019, which was led by Amy Song and Jon Pacheco. Over the course of the four-day workshop, we applied glazes, slips, and wadding to our bisqueware, loaded the train kiln with a couple hundred pieces, and stoked the kiln through its multi-day firing cycle. The workshop proved incredibly informative, was full of laughs, and brought together many wonderful artists from the greater Chicago area. I feel incredibly grateful to have had this opportunity, and hope you enjoy this short video!
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technical tuesday: Buying your first pottery wheel (Hard Talk)

by | May 19, 2020 | technical tuesday

This video is being made because so many people ask me what they should buy for their first wheel or at least what my opinion is. please remember that what I say in this video is only my opinion and come from my experience on these wheels of which I have worked on. the majority of the information I found for this video can be found at the big ceramic store.com. and we go over a large variety of beginner wheels here this video is not for specialty or Advanced wheels. so here you go, a video on what you should buy for your first pottery wheel.

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technical tuesday: Underglaze Tutorial – Opaque and Watercolor Techniques

by | Apr 21, 2020 | technical tuesday

This video is a step-by-step guide to using underglazes to add an illustrative design to your ceramics. I’ll show you how to create solid, opaque images as well as how to create watercolor techniques using underglazes. In this video I draw and paint flowers and whales onto a wheel thrown vase. Underglaze is my favorite way of decorating my pots! I love getting lost in the intricacies of the design and the repetition of the layering. It is not uncommon for a single pot to take me several days and even weeks to underglaze. The watercolor technique not only makes a beautiful design, it also significantly cuts down the span of time it takes to finish the underglaze because it does not require as many precise layers. This is my first video tutorial for clay and so I truly hope you enjoy it and will give me feedback! Happy Day!

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technical tuesday: Archaeological Study of Medalta’s Kiln Room

by | Apr 14, 2020 | technical tuesday

In 2010, an Industrial Archaeologist named Talva Jacobson came to the Historic Clay District to complete an archaeological study of Medalta’s Kiln Room. We were reasonably sure that the foundations of at least three round kilns were under the concrete floor which was constructed sometime in the 1960’s. As Talva and her team excavated, they were indeed able to find kiln foundations as well as a wealth of other archaeological information which will aid in understanding the processes of industry in the early years of the twentieth century.

Want to see more and read more about this excavation? Check it out HERE.