This week in the studio was spent making pieces for a raku firing my class at the Western Colorado Center for the Arts will be doing. I made seven pieces for it. We have three raku glazes at the Art Center, a copper luster glaze, a clear crackle glaze, and a dolphin luster glaze. Here are pictures of all of them. I thought in this blog I should describe what I do in a class at the Art Center. First of all, my teacher is Terry Shepherd. I have been taking from him for four years. Each session is 8 weeks long and there can be a maximum of nine people. At the studio we have 9 electric Pacifica wheels and several assorted kick wheels. Every class we do a raku firing on the last class at the end of the session. We also normally have a class project and exchange. This time we are all making 3lb. serving dishes. On the last day of class we will have a pot luck and serve food in the piece we made, exchanging them with our classmates. It's fun and we all end up with a new and exciting piece from a fellow potter. This session we are also doing a project where we find an ancient piece of pottery and try to copy the shape to the best of our abilities. I'll be sure to share with you and post pictures when my project is done. Every day in my class Terry demonstrates a project for the first hour and then we all do our own projects, orders, and experiment with new and creative ideas. Here are some pictures of the Art Center pottery studio.
