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Oh my gosh, I’ve had so much fun making Jack O’Lanterns this fall! I started in early September and I am up to (I think) […]

I created this Garden Totem in a July workshop. The workshop took place over three different weekends. The first weekend, we choose our textures and […]

In early August, I took a hand built pitcher workshop at my studio. We used a template to create the form, traced and added the […]

During my hand building class this summer, we did monoprinting on clay using underglaze, slips, and mason stains. This was such a fun process. We […]

These are the last of the pieces I created in the throwing class that ended in June. They are a speckled red clay that I […]

I took an awesome hand building class this summer filled with lots of techniques for creating vessels without the pottery wheel. These pieces were created […]

I made a few white clay gnomes from some leftover clay scraps. I went with my standard red, green, and blue underglazes. I unfortunately rushed […]

I started a six week hand building course back in mid June. I am loving the class and this vase was the piece I made […]

Over the last weekend in June, I got to take a hand broom making class. I went in with no experience or expectations, just a […]

This past weekend, I took a one day Paper Marbling workshop. I loved it! We did two different styles, Suminagashi (Sumi) marbling and Turkish marbling. […]

After taking two beginner classes (and one intermediate years ago), I was able to take an intermediate stained glass workshop this week. Even though it […]

This spring, I’ve been decorating and glazing all my thrown pots with the same techniques and colors, so I decided to do something a little […]

In late April, I was able to take a Monoprinting on Clay workshop at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg. This is an […]

Art Source 2024 An Exhibition of Works by Knox County Art Educators I was unable to attend the opening of this year’s Art Source Exhibition. […]

I started a six week wheel throwing class back in mid-March. It had been almost four years since I had been on the wheel and […]

In mid-April, I took a succulent planter workshop at my clay studio and was able to make this adorable little guy! We used a pre-made […]

This frog prince is a little larger than the last frog and I changed up the glazes. I used three celadon glazes on the frog […]

I wanted to create a few more frog princes, similar to what I made last summer – Small Frog Princes. This frog is a little […]

Well this piece definitely didn’t turn out like I had hoped! I was a bit heart broken <sigh>. I took a Valentine’s Day themed workshop […]

We had a pretty massive snow last month – 8 – 10 inches – and then some nasty ice as well. The ice is not […]