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Sarah Spurgeon: Artist And Educator, Karen J. Blair
Sarah Spurgeon: Artist And Educator, Karen J. Blair
History Faculty Scholarship
This brief article is a personal history of Sarah Spurgeon (1903-1985), who was a professor of art (painting and drawing) and art education in the Department of Art and Design at Central Washington University between 1939 and 1971.
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 …