Ceramic educator and woodfirer Robin DuPont is putting together an inventory of Canadian woodfirers and kilns across Canada. “In my travels, I am often asked about the contemporary Canadian wood firing scene. An inventory of kilns and ceramic artists firing with wood would be a great resource for ceramic students, institutions and the broader ceramics community.”
WorldStoke 2022 in Penryn, CA
You’re Invited! An international symposium of woodfiring, artist demonstrations, and discussions to address social equities in ceramic art in gorgeous Placer County, northern California. Hands-on workshops: woodfiring, raku. low-salt firings, artist demonstrations, panel discussions, exhibitions & more activities to be enjoyed.
Register Today! https://www.worldstoke.org
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!
Northern Clay Center, 2424 Franklin Ave E, Minneapolis, MN 55406
612.339.8007
Get concentrated time with some of the best ceramic artists in the field with Pre-Festival Workshops at American Pottery Festival 2019, September 6 – 8.
Jan McKeachie Johnston & Linda Christianson: Hygge in Clay
Thursday, September 5, 9 am – 5 pm
Friday, September 6, 9 am – 4 pm
Students, Educators, NCC Members: $200 (non-members $225)
Join these powerhouse potters for a two-day, hands-on workshop filled with astute tips, lots of individual instructor attention, and laughter born of Midwestern wit and pragmatism. Hygge (Hoo-gah) is a quality of coziness and comfortable conviviality. The concept aligns with how Jan and Linda and their pots make us feel. Whether we are gazing upon one of McKeachie Johnston’s generous baskets, or warming ourselves drinking from Christianson’s mugs, we experience an overwhelming confluence of intention and execution. Primarily a handbuilder, McKeachie Johnston will demonstrate her slab work and carving from a solid. Christianson will work on a treadle wheel, creating various parts to alter and assemble. Throughout the workshop they will discuss proportion, form, intention, gesture, the benefits of cross-country skiing, and maybe a joke or two. One can expect to leave with a deeper knowledge of how to create energetic connections between parts of a form while capturing the intentional gesture of your hand in clay. Lunch included.
Friday, September 6, 9 am – 5 pm
Students, Educators, NCC Members: $115 (non-members $130)
Sunshine Cobb will share her approach to square things, like garlic boxes, and round things, like pitchers and vases. She will talk about how abstract concepts make their way into her work, and how to foster similar insertion into your own creative practice. Her demonstration will motivate you to experiment with new and old forms and methods of construction. Basic handbuilding methods will be applied to hard and soft slab construction as a way to generate various components for constructing pots. In this one-day workshop, participants can expect to complete one form. Lunch included.
The American Pottery Festival is a three-day event highlighting the immeasurable talent, the commitment, and the epic chops of your favorite ceramic artists and some icons in the making.
Ceramic artists from across the country will converge on Minneapolis to offer their wares and share glimpses of their studio practice, focusing on critical insight and technical information. In panel discussions, artist talks, demonstrations, and gallery chats, we will delve into the principles and elements of design in relation to dynamic utility. NCC will once again deliver a combination of engaging, influential voices from across the spectrum of American Ceramics!
Woodstack Book Submissions for Princeton Architectural Press
Why do people stack wood? How does a chore as mundane as stacking wood turn into an endeavor to craft a well-made object that is both beautiful and practical? For aeons, people have stacked wood around the world to heat homes, fire kilns, cook over campfires, build structures, grow mushrooms, and make charcoal, simply for the love of it. But what are the stories behind the stacks and stackers?Woodstack, a forthcoming book from Princeton Architectural Press, http://www.papress.com, focuses on how transforming a pile of logs into a structure has bound cultures together across the globe.
If you would like to be considered for inclusion, please complete this online submission form. Images must be 300 dpi and a minimum of 7″ wide. The deadline for submissions is February 15, 2019.
**If you would like to submit but will not be able to provide images until after this deadline (for instance, because you want to photograph a new pile in the springtime), please get in touch.**
Questions? Please contact Ayumi Horie, author of Woodstack, at [email protected]. For the past ten years, potter Ayumi Horie, http://www.ayumihorie.com, has been managing a Facebook group called International Society of Woodstack Enthusiasts, where members send in pictures from all over the world.
