Creative Pottery: A Step-By-Step Guide and Showcase

A book for all potters seeking new techniques and fresh approaches. Creative Pottery features step-by-step insight to the work of nine distinguished craftspeople. Join such renowned potters as Chris Staley, Linda Arbuckle, Michael Simon, and Peter Pinnell in their own studios as they create beautiful pottery forms. Three sections explore technique, inspiration, and approach:

--Forming-wheelthrowing, throwing and altering, and hand-building

--Surface-raw glazing, Majolica techniques, and spray glazing

--Firing-wood firing, electric raku firing, and primitive firing by the potters of Jatun Molino

--Plus tools, clay and glaze recipes, and tricks of the trade

Potter, teacher, and writer, Michelle Coakes directs the ceramics program at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky. She has previously taught at Western Kentucky University, Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, Appalachian Center for Crafts, and Arrowmont School. Coakes has written on pottery for such publications as Ceramics Monthly and NCECA Journal, and also exhibits her own ceramic work.