Native American Pottery has a rich tradition of artists using beautiful clay designs depicting native life in the Southwest to tell their rich ancient stories. To shop for Native American ceramics and pottery go to:
I go looking for the oldest potters clay in the American Southwest near Tucson, Arizona only to find that this clay is rapidly disappearing beneath concrete. Explore the remote prehistory of ceramics and the long ancient ceramic traditions of the Tucson area.
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Earth, water, and fire are the elements of pottery. Many Native potters believe creating vessels are an opportunity to bond with the land and with the past. Clay vessels have been made for storage and household use in Indigenous Southwest societies for nearly 2,000 years. Pottery is a complex art form to master. It requires learning a complex series of tasks and knowing how materials will react to firing.
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Getting started making Southwest pottery can seem daunting. This video will help you connect with all the resources you need to start in Southwest pottery, the tools, materials and the skills. Below are links to some of the resources I talk about in the video.
TOOLS
Gourd scrapers and polishing stones:
Pukis:
MATERIALS
Low fire clay:
Iron oxide for paint:
SKILLS – SELF PACED
Online video classes:
My blog:
Tony Soares YouTube channel:
Clint Swink's book:
SKILLS – WORKSHOPS & CONFERENCES
Andy Ward (me):
Cherylene Caver:
Kelly Magleby:
SW Kiln Conference:
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Native American pottery. Sometimes thought of as artifacts from the past or trendy decor, authentic Native American art is still very much alive in the form of pottery. In this segment, I visit Reyes Madalena in Moab, Utah to learn a bit more about this delicate process.
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From her studio in a disused London railway ticket office, Lisa Hammond shares the processes she follows to create her soda-fired carved pouring bowls. Discover more inside Ceramic Review issue 283, which features the full step-by-step masterclass. You can order back issues of the magazine from ceramicreview.com.
Film by Layton Thompson for Ceramic Review.
Watch Antonia Salmon, Ray Silverman and Janet Haig at work in their studios, in this film produced for the exhibition Shaping Ceramics: From Lucie Rie to Edmund de Waal at the Jewish Museum London (10 November 2016 – 26 February 2017).
Tin-glazed earthenware expert Daphne Carnegy shares the process and story behind her botany-inspired functional wares. Discover more inside Ceramic Review issue 288, which features the full step-by-step masterclass. You can order current and back issues of the magazine from ceramicreview.com.
Film by Layton Thompson for Ceramic Review.
Here's this week's ASMR version of my bowl throwing and trimming video. If you'd like to watch the version that goes into a lot more detail about the process and discusses the cross sections too, you can do so by following this link:
Timestamps:
0:00 – Introduction
0:13 – Preparing reclaimed clay to throw with
1:38 – Spiral wedging individual balls of clay
2:02 – Throwing bowls
5:51 – Trimming bowls
12:37 – Finished examples
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