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Two Week Race with Myself
I started 2014 in a full sprint. I hadn't made any pots since mid-December. For sure I needed a break after a grueling holiday season. And it's not that I didn't enjoy the holidays with my fam. But...
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High Five!
One kiln was heating up, the other was cooling down. I caught a photo of that brief moment right before their temperatures converge then trade places. I like to think they are high-fiving each other....
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A herd, a flock, a school ...
Coming soon to the American Craft Council Baltimore Show, February 21-23, at the Baltimore Convention Center. Along with over 650 of the country's best craft artists. Start making your plans by...
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Early Bird Gets a Big Prize
This is why it pays to arrive as early as possible to set up for the ACC Baltimore Show .... the exhibit hall is still mostly empty, and they let you drive all the way to your booth. I finished setting...
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Indelible
Opening this weekend at Baltimore Clayworks ....IndelibleMarch 1 - April 12, 2014An exhibition of sgraffitto, mishima, and other techniques which create designs embedded into the flesh of the clay, not...
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Throwing multiples, without losing your mind.
I remember how I felt about this many years ago. And I commonly hear other potters express this sentiment. Something along the lines of "Ugh! Making multiples of the exact same pot sounds like...
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The joy of having a studio to all to yourself.
My production output has increased dramatically in the last year or so. Among other things, I need to make a lot more dinner plates. Plates are cumbersome to dry, because they need so much footprint...
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Three Weeks, Three Shows, Three Cities
As much as I enjoyed the past two months of uninterrupted studio time, I'm ready to get started with my Spring and Summer festival season. I've planned a very ambitions season, with three shows in May,...
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Three in a Row: The Report
This is not the first time I've done three shows in three consecutive weekends. But in the past I've only done it when one or more of them was Small, the kind that didn't require a whole lot of...
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Columbia Festival of the Arts
This is a two-week long event, celebrating the arrival of summer in Howard County, MD. The first weekend features lots of free activities along the lakefront, including an invitational art & craft...
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It doesn't always go smoothly.
I guess I set myself up for some irony, by blogging recently that my show process was very efficient and can be performed without exhaustion, like it's just another day at the office. After this past...
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Adventures in Democracy
I have been working on something on the side for a few months. For all of you who worry that my life is one-dimensional ..... oh who am I kidding? My life is totally one-dimensional. But the past...
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Jurying the Ceramic Guild's "Seeds of Summer"
This is the third time I've been asked by the Ceramic Guild to jury their bi-monthly show, which is now on display in the Scope Gallery at the Torpedo Factory, in Alexandria VA. Their current exhibit...
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Three in a row again. Only bigger.
The van is packed and I'm hitting the road. And I won't stop until three weeks from now.Central Pennsylvania Festival of the ArtsState College, PAThursday, July 10, 10am - 8pmFriday, July 11, 10am -...
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I got through it in one piece. I'd like to do it again.
Three shows in three weeks. One Large and two X-Large, and two road trips. It wasn't that bad, in terms of the workload. On the weekdays in between, I kept working in the studio, though at roughly...
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My next show is not until October, therefore this month I can catch up on some tasks other than my usual routine. The first item is the first thing I plan to do (starting as soon as I finish writing...
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For the next wood-firing
I've been working with cone 10 clays this week, making pots for a wood-firing that's planned for October. This time I am not the teacher ... my friend Karen Arrington has taken over this workshop for...
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