A New Year In Clay

"It's the bomb"

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Wood and Oil

 

Minding the Fire

Community Firing

The Bobtown Potters sent sparks into the winter sky Saturday evening. The weather is not the only extreme here. From fifty degrees to zero to outside, and from zero to 2,400 degrees, the new kiln exceeded expectations. Bobtown Arts board members Philip Wiggs and Clarence Hayes, along with community potters Ron Deaver, Robbie Teasdale and Bruce Hoefer, withstood extreme cold to feed the firebox for thirty hours, adding the reclaimed waste oil to the wood. Anthony Wolking contributed fifty tea bowls to the 150 pots loaded into the Bourry Box kiln. We are waiting to unload the kiln, now cooling in the arctic air, but an initial peek was joyful.