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Pocosin Arts Workshop
Here are some pictures of the pots we made at the workshop, Scratching the Surface.
Scratching the Surface
Pocosin Arts hosts an annual artist workshop in February which I attended this weekend. It is a great event – close to home, in a beautiful venue, with excellent instruction. This year the pottery instructor was Ronan Peterson who taught 'Scratching the Surface'....
How to take a pottery workshop
For several years I took pottery classes at local pottery studios. However, when no classes were available, I looked elsewhere for instruction. As a result, I began to attend pottery workshops. Workshops provide a great opportunity to see different techniques, try...
Instructor and student
While I was getting ready to go to a pottery workshop, I was thinking about all the opportunities that I have had to be in the instructor role. This weekend, I am looking forward to being a student. I have had many teaching opportunities – community college...
Homemade meals, homemade pots
"Two other fashions (read: plagues) I’d like to see go away this year are the omnipresence of white plates (someone please have mercy) and cheap, uncomfortable restaurant chairs. I’d give anything to walk into a restaurant with rich, dark, plush furnishings that make...
Set and Match
We finished a commissioned order of dinnerware which included 16 dinner plates, 12 salad plates, 12 bread plates, 12 cereal bowls, and 12 chili bowls. So I wanted to review some things that we learned while making the dinnerware order. A successful set is uniform,...