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Full-Text Articles in Ceramic Arts
Serving Bowl With Scraped Decoration, Samuel Johnson
Tea Pot With Reed Handle, Samuel Johnson
Hourglass Vase, Samuel Johnson
Sju Pottery Kiln Firing, Michael Hemesath
Sju Pottery Kiln Firing, Michael Hemesath
Administration Publications
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Mentorship, Richard Bresnahan
Mentorship, Richard Bresnahan
Asian Studies Faculty Publications
Part of a special section on mentoring. Ceramist Richard Bresnahan discusses his role as a mentor. Since setting up his first studio at St John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota, in 1979, Bresnahan has trained 32 apprentices. To alleviate the poverty that is an extra burden for many apprentices, grants from the university, the studio, and regional foundations provide apprentices with housing, food, health care, and a small monthly stipend. As all the clays and glazes employed in the studio come from local sources and are processed on site, there is a ready supply of materials for both apprentices and visiting …
Water And Woodfiring, Richard Bresnahan
Water And Woodfiring, Richard Bresnahan
Asian Studies Faculty Publications
Part of a special section on the 1999 International Woodfire Conference. The technique of putting water into a high-temperature woodfired kiln is discussed. This 800-year-old technique is used to oxidize the environment, clear carbon, and quickly cool the pottery. It produces unique, beautiful textures and colors, particularly a rich earth-tone palette that cannot be paralleled by chemical glazes or other firing techniques. This technique was used in a Teppo-gama (gun kiln) based on designs from 12th-century Korean tunnel kilns, built on the island of Tanegashima, Japan, in 1969. The writer discusses the work of a number of artists who use …
First Fire, Richard Bresnahan
First Fire, Richard Bresnahan
Asian Studies Faculty Publications
Potter Richard Bresnahan discusses wood firing. He asserts that it is not the placing of the pots in the kiln but where they are not placed that is the truth of wood firing; this theory involves the creation of a chamber in the kiln where no pots at all are placed. The theory, he continues, provided him with the answers to several problems in wood firing, including the problem of building a front fire-mouth chamber from previous first chambers. He adds that there is also the problem of combining three distinctly different styles of firing in a larger kiln for …