by Cindy Bracker | Aug 21, 2023 | Education, opportunities, Featured, News, Professional Development
*Ring Ring….Ring Ring* “Thank you for calling Bracker’s Good Earth Clays, this is Cindy, how can I help you?” “Oh hi Cindy, I’m a teacher in [small town in the middle of America] and I’m new to teaching Ceramics. I...
by Cindy Bracker | Jun 22, 2023 | Community, Education, opportunities, Featured, News
Last year was our inaugural year for our Good Earth Grant….and when we announced it, I remember that i wrote “Across the country there are schools that are having to make difficult decisions about budget and curriculum. Unfortunately, clay can often be...
by Cindy Bracker | Dec 1, 2022 | Community, Education, opportunities, Featured, News
It started with the wheel. Our William Bracker Wheel Donation, that is. But this year, Dave asked me “does it have to be a wheel? There are a lot of schools that have needs that aren’t a pottery wheel..” I couldn’t break with tradition and...
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 | Sep 18, 2020 | Education, opportunities, Featured, News, Service
Even before Covid-19 shut down many clay centers, we were often asked to provide unique and individual services to meet a variety of needs ranging from one on one throwing lessons to valuation services for estate sales or legal proceedings, to in depth analyses of...
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...