This is my newest work. These teapots are made up of several different thrown pieces, glazed with shino, and fired to cone10. I will definitely be making more of these in the future.

These are my student’s sculptural teapots in progress. They were required to work with a theme and try to create a narrative. They are starting to look really good, should have them done soon, and finished pictures up.

A collection of bottles and jugs, my favorite forms to make. My goal is work on large series of bottles and jugs this summer, we will see.

These are some pretty old bottles of mine, they were fired in one of the wood kilns at College of the Ozarks during my time at Missouri State. Can’t remember if they were in the anagama or the naborigama.

This is a collection of new cups or tumblers, gray stoneware with white slip and iron oxide decoration under shino. I have only recently started thinking about decorating pots. It’s something I could get used to.

Some of my teapots I made at school as examples of the ceramics II class. These are decorated with white slip and iron. We all had teapot fever for a few weeks.

An example I made for the ceramic II students, it was a project where they had to use elements made with slump and hump molds, as well as thrown elements.

I created a sculpture lesson to teach the students about negative space and its importance. We also worked with the concept of creating a piece that functions in the round well. The sculptures were made from stiff slabs and they incorporated texture. This was my example.

These are my examples of the first sculpture project my students were required to do, the infamous orb and cube. The complete subtractive nature of the sculpting was challenging even for me at times. It is also a great introduction to non-objective art. This is a lesson I see myself teaching a lot in the future.

The ceramic II class was required to create a sculpture made up entirely of thrown elements that were altered. Everyone made a bunch of pots and then we had a draft and the students picked pots that were not necessarily their own to work witht, then they started cutting them and building. This was my example.

I spent a plan period at St. Louis Community College Meramec in order see the guest artist there Kurt Weiser. Watching him decorate his cups was awesome, he did it so effortlessly. The work he does with china painting on his pots is mind blowing.