Wood fired Ceramics: JC anagama Spring 09

Here are some pieces I got from the last
wood firing at Juniata and one piece that
was soda fired with some washes and stains
(the first bottle). The other two bottles were fired in the front of the kiln and the teapot was in the middle of the stack a few feet away from the side door/stoke area.
I have many more pieces to be documented.
more to come.

These images were all taken within a 3 hour period at high heat. They show our front door, side door/side stoke port, and back stoking area. The people in the photos are myself and one of the other kiln leaders and collegue of mine, Jared Iampetro.

Juniata's Anagama Spring 2009

The photos above are courtesy of Nicole Denny, a student of Juniata College during the firing that took place in April. We started loading on Thursday the 9th and lit the fire at 6pm on Sunday evening/afternoon. While still quite warm we unloaded three days later. The firing went well. We could have maintained a longer soaking pattern once achieving cone 10 but we did not so the front of the kiln got a little rough but the heavy ember masses that were built up provided many jewels scattered on the floor.

Summer 2008 Komuri anagama firing at Jack's

Here are some images taken during a daytime shift at Jack Troy's
anagama, Komuri. They are some pretty quality photos. Have a look.

Iris Film Festival and Drobnock.

I had the opportunity to design the new logo for the Iris Film Festival.

(http://www.irisfilmfestival.org/Iris FF Home.html)

Keep an eye on their site for a supposed update using the new design.


The dates for the festival are September 18 - 19th, that's a Friday and Saturday, 2009.

By that point you should be able to get your hands on some festival shwag to proudly display the new logo to your now jealous friends.

Juniata Ceramic's Studio Adult Class and Me.

For the last couple of weeks I have been 'enrolled' in a ceramics class for community people at the college ( http://www.juniata.edu/). Its pretty much set up to allow anyone who is interested in clay outside the of the enrolled students, although I guess they could take it too. It has given me a structured studio space to work in while my equipment is all over the place.

Great news on top of that...

The college is having its spring anagama firing in early April!
I will have many photos of that whole process and the finished wares that come out.
Its a well seasoned kiln and I believe there will be two or three other people in charge besides myself so I am looking forward to a good community and great pots.