Fine Mess Pottery

Though I am notoriously cheap, I love when i have a legit reason to buy stuff. Not just any old stuff - tires are a drag. So is Windex, flea...

A potter wasp constructed this tiny vessel in the weave of a wicker chair on my deck. (For scale, that's a pine needle beside it.) I d...

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Seriously, you guys need to come to Date Night at Portland Pottery. This was the spread Manda put on. Oh, and there was a raku firing, t...

  Every once in a while I read something about a technique to print a slip or underglaze design from a laser print. You know the one, w...

I am enamored of patterns, as you may know, and especially partially-decomposed patterns, in which the flame has a say in the f...

Many years ago, someone asked me why so many potters hate to make plates. I couldn't answer for all potters; it wasn't even easy t...

I got this recipe from Hope Rovelto, a sculptor and then-kitchen manager at the Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts. I did a work-week resid...

That's what I sold at the Portland Farmer's Market today. All of which were to friends. Things that sucked about the Farmer'...

Into my endless quest to patchwork an income together, I have sewn a new square. Some of you may know that I built my own website . I could ...

One could argue that functional pottery is art which is only completed when in use. Though I usually post more formal shots of ware - g...

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