Friday’s throwing clinic with Kathy Dambach (below) and Yiu Keung Lee (below center) offered audience members hands-on instruction.

Joe Zajac (above) shared his methods of wooden mold making as well as various surface treatments.

Saturday featured two approaches to raku – Ned Krouse’s methods of achieving color with slips and careful control of oxidation and reduction (top), and Gloria Frank’s nearly smokeless method of firing using a mud seal for the reduction chamber (center). A collective “Ahh!” went through the audience as John Stephenson, (above) assisted by Ianna Frisby, released a spiral form from its wire armature and the whole process became clear. Not pictured but equally appreciated were presenters Ron Ruth, Caroline Court, Georgette Zirbes, and Pi Benio.

Guest artist Peter Beasecker (below) entertained and enlightened his audience for two days, throwing and assembling a variety of forms..
In two afternoons, Sam Chung (below center and bottom) took viewers from drawing to creating templates through combining thrown and slab elements.