Stephanie Kantor is both a functional potter and a painter. Working in these media allows Kantor to translate her ideas onto different surfaces and explore materiality. She is inspired by urban landscapes and their decay. This motif is emphasized by color and pattern on low fire red clay. Kantor graduated from Penn State in 2009 [ Read More ]
The choices seem to be never-ending with AMACO’s Potter’s Choice glazes. I think I could spend a full year running all the combinations of these glazes, and possibly still not explore every possibility. Not only is each glaze lovely on its own, but the palette expands exponentially when you begin to layer these glazes. At [ Read More ]
Dad used to say that he could spend the rest of his life experimenting with different ways to use Crackle White Raku Glaze and never get bored. Mom’s been repeating that a lot over the last couple of months, as I’ve been doing my super secret covert Raku firings that she always seems to find [ Read More ]
For the month of July, what glaze could be more perfect than AMACO’s Firecracker? Not just a great name, Firecracker is part of AMACO’s Crystaltex series of glazes, which are a base glaze with the addition of a variety of glaze crystals. In this case, a beautiful, brilliant, opaque red glaze is the base and [ Read More ]
