text: support your local potter: more work.
  Posted by brandon phillips at 1:27 PM
  I like the way that you get the pots to stay on the shelf, it's sorta like wearing a baseball cap backwards.
  10/09/2009 3:03 PM
  Can't wait to see the glaze load. That's a lot of production for the student's, do they carry other classes at the same time? Once I get to my new studio I need to take a lession from what you have said about making multiples of the same form till I get it right. Thx
  yeah they're fulltime students. i approach ceramics 2 as if they're going to make it a career and i need to adequately prepare them for it. a ceramics "major" in most univeristies will only take 4-5 semesters of ceramics. this is not nearly enough if they want to go on and make a living and usually not enough to get into a good grad school unless they're practically living in the studio. so i tell my ceramics majors right from the beginning that if this is what they want then they have to work. i had one bail on me last year because whe didn't want to work that much.
  now if someone were just taking ceramics for fun...i wouldn't be as hard on them. it just so happens that all my advanced students are majors at the moment.