Pour a saucer of milk. Add a little honey, give it a stir….notice the lovely striations of the amber color of the honey peaking through the creamy whiteness of the milk? Spectrum’s aptly named Texture Milk & Honey is a frothy white glaze with subtle hints of a creamy taupe and sometimes a peachy blush. The surface is satiny and soft, enticing browsing customers to touch and fondle the piece. Alone it makes an excellent liner glaze that will coordinate with a number of other glazes to enhance and complement the overall piece. When layered with other glazes, it creates beautiful effects. When paired with a dark color, Milk & Honey can bring out some unexpected color variations, as shown in the Kristen Kieffer mug in the gallery below. Pick up a pint this month while it’s on sale, and experiment with it yourself. Click here to go directly to our shopping website and add it to your cart!
Retail Price $17.50/Pint
Special Glaze of the Month price $14.00/Pint
![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)
