Category Archives: Review

23 Oct 10

Clary Illian embraces change

The focus of the DVD Clary Illian: A Year in the Life (Atom Burke Productions) are the changes that Illian went through when she fell and broke her wrist. While her bones mended, Illian took a hiatus from pottery production (for the first time in the over 40 years that have passed since she apprenticed [...]
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5 Oct 10

Gordon Hutchens on DVD

Beginning Raku with Gordon Hutchens is a well-produced instructional video that takes us through each step in the raku process (including building a raku kiln) in just 60 minutes, without appearing to hurry. First Hutchens makes three pots, two slab-built and one thrown, then he discusses the bisque firing, then he glazes and decorates the [...]
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26 Sep 10

Joe Fafard: the book

Joe Fafard is one of Canada’s most prominent sculptors and his journey from a small francophone farming community in Saskatchewan where he went to a one-room school and did his share of chores around the farm, through art school in Winnipeg and at the University of Pennsylvania, and on to the realization of his own [...]
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27 Jul 10

A Potter’s Workbook by Clary Illian

Several years ago I had the pleasure of spending two days at a workshop where Clary Illian threw pots on a treadle wheel and talked about the shapes she made and her life as a a potter. Her book, A Potter’s Workbook, is much like that workshop: simple and unadorned, yet thought-provoking. With the help [...]
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