You won’t want to miss this incredible workshop opportunity at the Lawrence Arts Center, (just 2 miles down the road from Bracker’s.) The fabulous facility at the Center will be nicely complimented by one of the pioneers of the extremely popular clay mono printing technique. Mitch Lyons earned his MFA degree in ceramics from Tyler [ Read More ]
Archive for January, 2012
Mitch Lyons workshop at the Lawrence Arts Center
Posted on Jan - 25 - 2012Real Elephant Ear Sponges available!
Posted on Jan - 19 - 2012For a limited time, we have a small amount of the old style elephant ear sponges from the actual Aegean Sea. Quantities are VERY limited, and when they’re gone, they’ll likely be gone for a while again. We have three sizes. The Mediums range from 3″ – 3 1/2″, the Smalls from 2 1/2″ – [ Read More ]
Crystals: Specialty Glaze of the Month
Posted on Jan - 02 - 2012Because winter weather in Kansas is a bit too unpredictable to insure the opportunity for a Raku firing, Our Raku glaze of the month will be resting until April. However, we have replaced it with a “specialty” glaze of the month for the next three months! For those who are more do-it-yourself-ers or people with [ Read More ]
Nutmeg, January Low-Fire Glaze of the Month
Posted on Jan - 02 - 2012January is Anne W.’s birthday, so in her honor, we chose Nutmeg as the glaze of the month. One might assume this is because Nutmeg is her favorite glaze. What is more accurate is to say it is OUR favorite glaze to tease her about. You see, many years ago, before Bracker’s used computers to [ Read More ]
New Opulence Glaze Sample Pack – MidFire Glaze of the Month
Posted on Jan - 02 - 2012Darla strikes again! One of our most popular glazes of the month was the Blue Purple that Darla suggested to me months ago. So, when she heard about the new Opulence glazes and suggested to me that I put together a sample set of one pound of each, I agreed that was a great idea, [ Read More ]
Anne Egitto – January Second Saturday Artist
Posted on Jan - 01 - 2012Anne Egitto is an archaeologist currently working on her doctorate degree in the Anthropology Department at The University of Kansas. Her porcelain pottery is wheel thrown and hand-painted. Although her work is primarily fired in a gas reduction kiln, some pieces are occasionally wood-fired. From time to time, she works with stoneware. The firing process [ Read More ]



