Announcing Bracker’s Consulting Services!
With the pandemic raging on, we have found that many ceramic enthusiasts have been left without access to teachers and instruction. We are excited to help fill that gap with our new Custom Consulting Services Even before Covid-19 shut down many clay centers, we were...
Announcing Bracker’s Glaze Mixing Services!
We now offer Glaze Mixing Services here at Bracker’s! Provide us with your recipe and we can dry blend it for you. We are excited to announce this new service. Over the years we have gotten a handful of requests from individuals who want to slowly move...
Clay: Yes // Covid: No, part two…research & resources
Here at Brackers, we continue to study & research the relationship between the COVID-19 virus and how it may affect ceramics studios and classrooms. While none of us here are microbiologists or epidemiologists or experts in any way, we do feel strongly that it is...
Announcing Bracker’s Custom Firing!
Do you have a ceramic project that you need fired??? We are excited to announce that we are (finally) offering Custom Firing Services here at Brackers! We can fire works up to 20″ across by 25″ tall. We will fire bisque (Cone 04), low-fire (Cone 05)...
Materials Monday: Marvelous Mason Stains®
Materials Monday: Marvelous Mason Stains® Have you heard? As a long time distributor of Mason Stains®, Brackers is proud to share the news that Mason Color Works Inc. was recently awarded trademark status for their Mason Stains®. This status helps to ensure that...
Announcing New Ceramics Lesson Plans
Many of you have been following our instagram posts sharing the work of artists of color for the last couple of months. We started to feature these ceramic artists in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, which brought on the most recent surge in the Black Lives...
August hours – details on store policies for back to school shopping/order pick up/appointments
Our contactless pickup option continues for August, available from 10 am-4 pm Monday-Friday and 10 am-3 pm on Saturday: Call and place your order, or shop our online store and select the contactless pickup option. We will put together your order and then you will...
Clay: yes! Covid: no ….safety in the ceramics studio
It used to be when we talked about safety in the ceramics studio we were refering to various glaze chemicals, maybe some airborne silica. Or maybe we were referring to body strain from sitting a potter’s wheel or fatigue in the muscles of our hands. Now it...
July Hours – contactless pickup, appointments & shipping
Bracker’s is pleased to share that we are now open 6 days a week to meet the demands of our clay community while still prioritizng staff health and social distancing. Our regular hours for the foreseeable future will be Monday-Friday 10-4 and Saturday 10-3....Check out our Instagram Feed!
![Jordan Alexzandra is currently studying art at Millersville University. In addition to Ceramics and painting, she also studies psychology, anthropology, and English. “I’ve been an artist throughout my entire life, but it wasn’t until recently that I called myself a ceramicist. My work has gone through a long journey of finding the perfect medium, which is now clay,” she writes. She’s just starting her journey, taking her first ceramics class in high school, but I see so much promise in her. Her experiences with clay give her many teachable moments in patience, planning, and time management, which she applies to her full-time studies in Psychology.
During a Summer break and away from the clay studio, she found herself without a rudder and focused her angst and her energy toward exploring naturally dyed silk and yarn. She found solace in the world of textiles and fiber art. Her minimalist pre-Columbian clay forms mesh well with the purity of cotton and silk. Her current body of work is titled, “Cotton.” In addition to the sampling of photos included in this profile, there are many more at her website (link in our bio).
Jordan said, “I desire that this work also sparks conversation of African - American history. The embodiment of being one of the few Black students in college in most of my classes, it is a conversation that follows me. Clay as a direct connection to the multiple cultures that make me who I am, to cotton that cloaks not only a dark history but to the environmental costs of the plant.“ [by Anne]](https://www.brackers.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)
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