Raku and Alternative Firing Techniques
Students will learn to prepare their pots with terra sigillata and fire them in a variety of alternative techniques: saggar-firing, horsehair, and ferric chloride fuming two types of naked raku. Pots will be fired in or placed into atmospheres where the smoke and/or chemicals produce the final surface color. These colors range from the deep reds and oranges of saggar and ferric chloride firings, to the stark black and white designs of naked raku. Previous raku experience is preferred but not required.
Charles Riggs and Linda Riggs, Carthage, North Carolina.
Charles Riggs has a Fine Arts Degree in Pottery. He has been featured in “Clay Times,” “Ceramics Monthly,” and “Studio Potter” as well as in the books, Alternative Firing Methods by Watkins/Wandless, and Raku, The Practical Approach, by Steven Branfman. Charlie has exhibited extensively in the Southeast, the Western US, and as far away as Canada and Norway. He also teaches workshops throughout the US and Canada in a variety of subjects including, Raku Methods, Saggar-firing, Pit-Firing, Raku Kiln Building, and Throwing Techniques. Linda has Masters in Anthropology. She collaborates with Charlie to create some of the unique surfaces on their pottery including saggar-firing, naked raku, and carvings and slip designs. Linda has written a number of articles on pottery for “Ceramics Monthly” and “Clay Times.” She is also featured in magazine articles on saggar firing, and in the books by Watkins/Wandless and Steven Branfman. She co-teaches workshops with her husband Charlie. Gallery
Intermediate to Advanced, Limit 12
Workshop Status: FULL