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...
by Cindy Bracker | Jun 19, 2020 | Community, Featured, News
“I refuse use to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality…I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final...
by Cindy Bracker | Jun 18, 2020 | Community, Dave's Tech Tips, Family, News, Raku, Specials, Sales
Literally…we’re putting fire on sale, because what father doesn’t like fire? (I could probably just say what POTTER doesn’t like fire… in our industry, there is definitely an increased liklihood of having an affinity for the flame.) My...
by David Sturm | May 8, 2020 | Community, Featured, Lesson Plans, Products, Videos, Wheels
“Wheels will always turn full circle.” ― Anthony T. Hincks Even as many states start to re-open their economies, community art centers remain closed for the time being. This leaves many of us still disconnected from the people, places, and implements...