by Kelli Sturm | Feb 4, 2021 | Community, News
In 2020 Covid definitely threw the world a curveball, but it also reminded us how important it is for communities to pull together to support each other, that being apart doesn’t equate to being alone, and that kindness is the one thing the world can always use... 
by Cindy Bracker | Jan 22, 2021 | Community, Featured
Kindness Week: February 14-22 Mass Street Muggings 5 years ago, we gathered handmade ceramic mugs (some that we made, some that were donated by local artists), and we descended upon our vibrant downtown Lawrence shopping district, Massachusetts street. We... 
by Kelli Sturm | Jan 19, 2021 | Community, Education, opportunities, Featured
Bracker’s has always kept its hands in the education of ceramics students in some way Bill Bracker was a university ceramics professor before he and Anne founded Bracker’s Anne Bracker started our company’s annual pottery wheel donation campaign,... 
by Cindy Bracker | Oct 28, 2020 | Community, Family, Featured, News
ANNE BRACKER RETIRES! Picture it, the Texas Hill Country, 1970. A beatuiful young girl marries a handsome clay professor and together they start a life together, a life of clay, in West Lafayette, Indiana. Anne Bracker began her clay journey as a special student at... 
by Cindy Bracker | Aug 31, 2020 | Community, Education, opportunities, Featured, News, Service
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... 
by Cindy Bracker | Jul 22, 2020 | Community, Education, opportunities, Featured, News
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... 
