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Today’s SIP - walnut. #spooncarving #spoons #spoonsinprogress #whittling #woodcarving

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I am a simple man and all I want is a three chambered wood/soda/salt kiln, and a chihuahua rescue. However many chihuahuas you’re picturing, picture more. Just giant herds of chi mixes all being adorable little assholes, bossing each other around.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Yesterday’s SIP (spoon in progress) Having fun with these wiggly handles. #woodcarving #spoon #workinprogress

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Slowly but surely my @starflowerstudios.bsky.social space is coming together, just in time for a glazeathon.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Just another little guy in progress for a firing coming up in May. Who knew making little guys would be this soothing? My recent practice has been to listen to a news update, then make a little guy, rinse, repeat. #ceramics #greenware #pottery #sculpture

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

When you’ve run out of excuses (and space) to avoid glazing #bisque #pottery #ceramics

submitted 53 days ago • 3 comments

Increasingly complete collection update (Every one needs a hobby, no?) #dolantools #toolnerd #potterytools

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

In 3rd grade I used to use my free period to go to the library, climb out the 1st floor window when the librarian wasn’t looking, and then would go to the public library and read until it was time to take the bus home. By grade 6 there was a warning in my school file about it.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

A tiny porcelain Trex with googly eyes and a gigantic butt, for some reason, made out of Takamori trimming scraps and waiting to be woodfired. #ceramics #pottery #starflowerstudios #dinosaurart #greenware #worksinprogress

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

Am I having NCECA fomo? Yes. Did I also finally find online the one Dolan tool I’ve been looking for for 4 years to complete my collection that coincidentally arrived at the same time? Also yes. #dolantools #toolnerd #pottersofbluesky

submitted 56 days ago • 4 comments

One bright side to being forced to live in an AI slop tornado is now I see my artistic mistakes as incredibly endearing. The human machine of my body made that weird line. My worst day of drawing is completely untouchably better than anything AI will ever produce until the heat death of the universe

submitted 57 days ago • 39 comments

After I made this and actually looked at it I started laughing so hard that my husband and dog both heard and came in to my studio, concerned. #pottery #greenware #worksinprogress #potterofbluesky

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

SIP (spoon in progress) #spoon #whittling #workinprogress

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Potter friends, whatcha reading? #pottersofbluesky #booksky

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

The AHA encourages historians to contact their representatives to protest the recent attack on the Institute for Museum & Library Services. The IMLS provides essential funding to libraries & museums in all 50 states and US territories. Read our action alert to learn how to support the IMLS. 🗃️

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

I made pots today for “the entirety of Patricia Wants to Cuddle on audiobook” hours

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Libraries are vital, providing access to information, technology, and learning. Cutting IMLS funding threatens these services, especially in underserved areas. Library funding isn’t political—it’s an investment in education, opportunity, and civic engagement. #LibraryLove #ForOurLibraries ala.org

submitted 67 days ago • 6 comments

A work in progress - been working on these angly little cafe mugs for ages, but I think I finally made the right decisions on the shape, size, and handle. I’ve got a bunch of these that’ll be fired in wood/soda in almost exactly a month. #pottersofbluesky #pottery #ceramics #mug

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

(The following is not about pottery or books) 10 years ago on Pesach I had a very vivid dream that when we left the door open for Elijah Chuck Schumer came in & I yelled “GET OUT, CHUCK SCHUMER, YOU’RE NOT INVITED TO OUR SEDER” Anyway, that came to mind today for no particular reason.

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

These fish cups will be in our show opening in person and online Saturday at @goodearthpottery.bsky.social . @emikomay.bsky.social did the drawings based on an 1850s German how-to book for housewives. These women did some serious labor. #fish #illustration #mug #mugs #art #prep #pottery #ceramics

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

"Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Society are partnering to offer interest-free loans of up to $10,000 for individuals and families to support relocation costs to another state because of anti-LGBTQ+ laws, policies, and climate in their current state of residence."

submitted 73 days ago • 28 comments

When things are slow, I sometimes start carving little spoons. If only clay were as portable and easy to clean up!

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nervous laugh #pottersofbluesky

submitted 76 days ago • 20 comments

Sometimes it’s rainy outside and you’ve got a little lump of clay left after coiling something big and so you just need to make a silly little guy. Thinking of making a t-rex and brontosaurus to go with him. #handbuilding #pottery #ceramics #pottersofbluesky #triceratops

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

The strange, bewitching, and sensuous Czech anthology film PRAGUE NIGHTS gets a beautiful new transfer and several illuminating extras courtesy of Deaf Crocodile. Available on Blu-ray on Tuesday. shorturl.at/I0j82

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve just begun a Pacific Northwest Ceramic artists Starter Pack. Hoping to build a supportive community for PNW artists here. If you’re a PNW clay artist and would like to be added to this starter pack, send me a message! All are welcome 🤗 go.bsky.app/6aV31Ct #pottery #pnw #pottersofbluesky

submitted 119 days ago • 11 comments

Spent a productive afternoon carving planters and plates and couldn’t resist documenting this one perfect spiral from carving a perfectly leather hard porcelain plate #pottery #ceramics #pottersofbluesky #claynerd #porcelain #artprocess

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Today I learned that if you are a potter who mostly uses subtractive techniques and also a woodcarver, and you are not ambidextrious, hollowing 4 kurinuki vessels followed by two wooden serving spoons is sincerely ill advised, from a callus development perspective 😬

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

Juicy little geologic lever teacup. I’ve made so many of these in the past few months, tinkering with the design & surface texture. They’re getting there.This one is Clay Art Center’s Takamori, soda fired to ^10. #sodafiredpottery #pottery #ceramics #handbuilt #porcelain #pottersofbluesky

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

I used to make a lot of these charred wood-esque pots, and I recently came back to it with all the extra space I have at @starflowerstudios.bsky.social. This sculptural bowl is available now at @goodearthpottery.bsky.social! #ceramics #pottersofbluesky #pottery #sculpturalpots #cohortsdotart

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

submitted 82 days ago • 290 comments