Empty Bowls Throwing Days

The Syracuse Empty Bowls event will take place on Friday, September 30th from 11 am - 2 pm.  It is our goal to contribute 500 out of the 1500 bowls for this event.  Clayscapes Pottery will be hosting throwing events with Liz Lurie here on Wednesday, July 13th and Thursday, July 14th from 12 – 5 pm. The following week we will be hosting Peter Beasecker on Wednesday, July 20th and Thursday July 21st from 12 – 5 pm.  This is an excellent opportunity to get involved in a very worthwhile community effort to feed the hungry and to experience 2 talented clay professionals at work.   The only thing you need to bring are your clay tools and your desire to help others.  Clayscapes Pottery will supply the clay and do the firing as well as all of the glazing.   If you are unable to attend one of these sessions and would still like to get involved, please let us know.   There are many things that need to be done leading up to the event as well as the day of the event.   We can use any and all the volunteers that are interested in helping to feed the hungry right here in our own community.

Holiday Closing

Clayscapes Pottery will be CLOSED this Saturday, April 23, in observance of Easter.  We will be open our regular hours the remainder of this week.  Happy Easter!    

New Wheels in the Studio

We just put 3 brand new Pacifica GT400 wheels in the studio.  We now have 20 wheels in the studio - plenty of room for folks to come in and use open studio time for throwing.  We also have plenty of work table space for you handbuilders.  It is very exciting to see the studio grow and the people who use it as well.

NCECA 2011

We are off to the 2011 NCECA in Tampa Florida!  We will post pictures and comments throughout the week!  Kim and I will be in L&L Kiln's booth.  Stop by and see us if you are there!

Wood Fire Workshop

Clayscapes Pottery will be holding a woodfire workshop on Saturday March 12th from 1pm - 3pm.  This workshop will cover the following content:

• What is an appropriate style of work for our wood kiln.
• What kind of results you can expect to get.
• Learn how and why the wood kiln works.
• What clay to use.
• What physical work needs to be done to fire the wood kiln – everyone needs to participate.
• Learn how the kiln is loaded and stacked and what results you will get from how it is stacked.
• Learn how the kiln is unloaded.
• Where does the wood come from.
• How is wood prepared.
• Stoking the kiln

The workshop will be $150.00 and will iclude 1 shelve space (16in wide x 19in long x 9in high).  Additional shelve spaces can be purchased for $100.00 a shelve.  It will also include glazes that Clayscapes will provide at our studio.  The kiln we be fired May 27th - 29th so please do not come to the workshop with finished work.  Anyone that has never fired in our woodkiln is required to take the workshop first.  All Clayscapes students are also required to take the workshop if they would like to put work in the kiln.  

Hobbitt Blue Glaze

Hobbitt Blue Glaze has been discontinued as a stock item by Laguna Clay.  It is now only available as a custom glaze and must be ordered in 50 lb increments.  Since it is a custom glaze, please allow 4 - 6 weeks for it to come in. 

Welcome To Clayscapes Pottery Posts!

Hi Clayscapers!  Welcome to our new website and blog.  I am excited to have this opportunity to share clay resources with you and for you to share with us, your successes, questions, observations and thoughts about clay, art and events.  In the coming days and weeks, I hope you will sign up to become a follower and stop by the blog and see what is being discussed and what's new at Clayscapes Pottery.  I'm really new at this blogging stuff so give me some time and I'll get this going!  In the meantime, feel free to share amongst each other through this blog. 

Don Seymour