by KP | Dec 29, 2013 | Ceramics, Education
Seeing all the people there staring in awe at all the hand-made bowls was incredible. Although many had heard about or attended the event, they were all still so amazed at how the community had helped to create all these bowls. It hit me that the event hasn’t stopped....
by KP | Dec 28, 2013 | Ceramics, Education
I often get low around the new year. Â Perhaps, like every media outlet in the world, I spend too much time looking back and not enough time looking forward. Â When I look back on a year, I tend to focus on missed opportunities, mistakes, not-quite-good-enough moments....
by KP | Dec 23, 2013 | Ceramics, Education
The pace has been two or three kiln firings each day this week, the last week before winter break and less than a week before student work goes on display for the twice-yearly art show. One kiln quit reaching bisque temperature mid-week. When I reached inside to...
by KP | Dec 8, 2013 | Ceramics, Education
Yesterday was my idea of a perfect Saturday. I arrived at the studio early, and spent a couple of hours by myself, mixing glazes, recycling clay, loading and unloading kilns, and puttering around the space. Â I finished one audiobook on my headphones, and started...
by KP | Dec 3, 2013 | Ceramics, Education
My latest post over at ALT/SPACE. I’m posting this in the midst of twelve-hour days, seven-day weeks, and not much breathing room. Â So be it. Â There are still a lot of good things to celebrate. Be faithful in small things, because it is in them that your...
by KP | Nov 16, 2013 | Ceramics, Education
My friend Joe told me a story recently about sparkles. He was sitting on a tree trunk that extended into the stream at a nearby nature preserve where we sometimes hike. Â On this sunny morning, he was relaxed, loosening his mind and listening to the soft trickle of...
