November 2009 JC Anagama Firing Images

changing life experience

well, its been about 5 months since my last post. life as i knew it is no more yet i am still in the same skin-suit and still pottering away at the old juniata college ceramics studio. (more on that later; maybe) we did the firing and it went well. there were some great pots and a lot of bad ones. the best part was the community itself, everyone got along very well and we had a great time. i have a plethora of photographs taken by one of the participants, a student and friend of mine. here are a few to get you through the night.

new images, new thoughts

The weather is getting colder and we in the mountains prepare for fire. November 15,16, and 17 we will be loading our anagama here at Juniata College to try and get some new wares. If you are in the area during the week feel free to swing by the studio on College Ave. off Cold Springs Road in Huntingdon Pennsylvania. Here are some new images of semi new pots; cone 10 soda fired (the set of cups are fired in the soda, a gas kiln, and the anagama). The newest stuff is getting pretty crazy though as I have been feverishly decorating my pots with slips and stains of brushwork and repeating patterns, which compaired to my old way (thrown and altered with no slips or brush work) is a huge deviation.

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.