Don't miss the next studio workshop:

July 11, 2009 Studio Workshop, Denver, CO

At the workshop we will start by making a textured slab cup, then move on to slab handles, which includes a lesson on how to modify templates to achieve the form you have in mind. We break for lunch when everyone is ready and go to a nearby restaurant. Lunch time usually involves the tracing of templates, and I try to pick a unique local place. After lunch, I will demonstrate as many techniques as we have time for, popular items at past workshops have been the platters made with a double-sided slab and the puffed rims, slab spouts, and the little cream pitchers. I will pretty much demo anything you'd like to see. The workshop starts at 10 and ends around 5. The fee is $75.

This is a 'bring your own clay, take what you make with you' workshop!
email me for more info and to request a registration form.

I'm thinking of offering another one on August 15th, let me know if you are interested!

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I have really enjoyed my recent travels! Thank you so very much to Laura Whittle at the Fort McMurray Potters Guild in Fort McMurray, AB, Canada, for bringing me so far north and being a great host!

And, infinite thanks to the California crew - Lynn Wood for arranging the gig and taking me to IKEA! Jennifer Merril-Palethorpe for putting me up in style & taking me to museums & the ocean, and sharing her beautiful life with me, Lana Wilson for letting me stay and be close to her rejuvenating energy, Barbara for sharing her delicious baked goods, Gepetto for being my constant companion, and the Maxjuela, for flying out to San Fran & helping me find my way home.
What a wonderful trip!

For my students who now have to figure out how to glaze the things we made at the workshops, and for the rest of you, too, here's a link to excerpts of my glazing article that appeared in Pottery Making Illustrated Sept/Oct 2007, originally called "Tips from the Pros...Glazing for Success." The full article is also anthologized in "Glazes & Glazing: Finishing Techniques, The Ceramic Arts Handbook Series" which is available here.