IAC Summer Ceramics

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Wheelwork Considerations

Link to album of images to consider in determining direction for wheelwork

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From Charles Krafft’s site - since a couple of students are exploring detailed ‘delft’ style work.  

See more....

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We assume that it is our energy and work, our vision and imagination that form the clay. But in reality, it is the clay that forms us, transforms us into the unexpected.

Malcolm Davis, NCECA 2010

Read his full remarks here.

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On firing

Kate: “Sometimes kilns bring us great joy, and sometimes kilns bring us great sadness.”

Taylor: “I’m dead inside.”

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Some useful Glaze Notes - IAC Summer 2015

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As potters we need to become more skilled at communicating how clay can be a medium that nurtures wisdom. Educating the heart is as important as educating the mind. Empathy, subtlety, curiosity, and doubt — these are some of the traits of a wise person. There is no shortage of information. Yet our world longs for the wisdom to enable us to work together in peace. Clay can help this come to pass.

Chris Staley, ‘The Wisdom of Touching Clay,’ NCECA Journal 2010 (via kplows)

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Simon Leach’s seven steps to throwing a cylinder.  

I could listen to him talk all day long.  

Watch this a few times, and I dare you to have floppy walls!

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Technique is probably the most difficult tool to master because it is a necessity, but can so easily become an obsession. Nothing can drown out new ideas as fast as an obsession with technique. Technique is nothing if you have nothing to say.

Peter Volkus 

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Seven altered bowls with Bill Van Gilder

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Lid-Making Demonstrations

Student curation of videos on how to make lids for pottery

How to make pottery lids

More ways to make pottery lids 

Creating a space for a pottery lid 

Throwing amazing lids off the mound

How to throw a lid with a knob for a storage jar

Throwing sugar bowls with lids Throws pot and lid in one hump! Must see!

Throwing sugar bowl lids on a pottery wheel

How to make an inverted lid

Ceramic teapot lid 

Wheel thrown lids 

Throwing the lid 

How to throw a lid 

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Pottery Trimming Demonstrations

Student curation of video demonstrations on how to throw a lid

Trimming a bowl with Emily Reason

Trimming a foot of clay pottery bowls

Trimming a foot of clay pottery bowls part 2

Trimming a foot of clay pottery bowls part 3

Trimming a pottery bowl on the wheel

Ceramic bowl production trimming

Ceramic bowl foot trimming

Trimming a bowl (1 of 2)

Trimming a bowl (2 of 2)

Pottery trimming tutorial

Ceramic pottery trimming tip

Trimming pottery

Trimming a pot on potters wheel step by step tutorial

Trimming the foot of a clay bowl on the wheel

Ceramic plant pots: Trimming the foot 

Making a ceramic vase: Trimming

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That's Mike.  He taught himself to throw blindfolded.

There are TONS of videos on YouTube on wheel throwing.  Here are two to get you started.

Centering

Lifting the Cylinder Wall

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Considerations

Some considerations and examples to consider for making wheel-thrown objects that are specific and precious.

Also - some ideas to consider from Chris Staley.  With elephants.

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Amazing ideas...

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Glaze Recipes, for some of the glazes we are using this summer.  Thanks, Lisa, for recording these in Summer 2014.

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Lisa's suggestions of artists to look up after the program.

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FLOW in Michigan

Here's what happened when we exchanged cups for interviews at an art opening during session 1, 2014.  Thanks so much to the session 1 ceramics majors for their work on this project - and especially to Kate B. for reflecting on the experience!