Fine Mess Pottery

...Liz Proffetty, of Liz Proffetty Ceramics ! I am sending out this, the last of the Kickstarter mugs today, as well as two last teabowls,...

Anybody wanna buy pots? The light was perfect for my living room to become my ad hoc photography studio, so I shot some pics and posted n...

Do you ever go on jags, during which you are interested in making one particular form, and not much else? That was me and these narrow vas...

Finishing up the last glazing today for a ^6 reduction soda. This will probably be the last firing for which I can glaze outside, whic...

Gah! I finally get a couple hours to work on my glaze conversions, and  - boom! - five formulas in, the Glazemaster software just ceases to ...

When I drive down to Portland to teach my classes, I always bring a bin of tools and materials for my demos. At a minimum I bring my throwin...

That sounds vaguely obscene, doesn't it? But no: I've always been inclined to use small wads, because to conserve wadding, beca...

My student and friend Ginette came to class one day with a great tool: a foam-rubber trimming bat. The "grippiness" of the foam sa...

Today is the last day of August, and the start of Labor Day weekend - the cultural if not the astronomical end of summer. It's been a...

In conjunction with Portland Pottery and the Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, I will be offering a Soda Firing Workshop this fall! It...

See lots more of Karen's intriguing work here and here .

As regular readers know, my family obligations have expanded this summer. It's not that it's so much more work - though there is so...