By Deb Schwartzkopf

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Take your ceramics work to the next level! Join Seattle-based artist Deb Schwartzkopf for a journey that will help you grow as a potter, whether your background is in wheel-throwing or handbuilding.

Creative Pottery (Quarry Books / June 2020) begins with a quick review of where you are in your own journey as a potter. If you need to brush up on the basics, help setting goals, or pointers on how to translate your inspiration into your work, you've come to the right place. The rest of the book is a self-guided journey in which you can choose the techniques and projects that interest you:

• Go Beyond the Basics and learn how to create a bottomless cylinder. Then explore seams and alterations for projects like a vase, sauce boats, dessert boats, and a citrus juicer.

• Master Bisque Molds to open a new world of possibilities. Make spoons, platters, and 
  asymmetrical shapes like an out-of-round serving dish with molded feet and a thrown rim.

Compose with Multiple Shapes to make two-part forms like a butter dish or oil pourer. Make a pitcher out of two simple forms or explore further by making handles and spouts for a teapot.

With compelling galleries, artist features, and guided questions for growth throughout, this is a book for potters everywhere that want to go beyond the basics, learn new skills, and unlock their creativity.                                                                       

Deb Schwartzkopf is a studio potter, instructor, and active community member of Seattle, Washington. She has taught at Ohio University, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, University of Washington, and University of Georgia’s study abroad program in Cortona. She was named Ceramics Monthly and Ceramic Arts Daily's 2019 Artist of the Year, one of the most visible awards in the field. Deb has worked as an artist-in-residence nationally and internationally at the Archie Bray Foundation (MT), Mudflat Studios (MA), The Clay Studio (PA), Pottery Northwest (WA), Watershed (ME), Red Lodge Clay Center (MT), Sanbao in Jingdezhen, China, and the Residency for Ceramics in Berlin, Germany. Since 2002, Deb has also taught widely at top ceramics centers including Penland School of Craft, Gaya Ceramics Center (Indonesia), and IARE (France in Oct. 2020). Her artwork is included in collections such as the Kamm Teapot Foundation, San Angelo Museum, the Rosenfield Collection and the WA State Arts Collection, among others. She has been included in numerous publications including Ceramic Monthly, Pottery Making Illustrated, and Studio Potter Magazine; has contributed to Red Clay Rambler Podcasts; is a founding member of Objective Clay; has served as the Director of the Washington Clay Arts Association; Deb founded and launched Rat City Studios, a community pottery studio where she, offers adult classes, studio memberships, and opportunities for emerging artists:   ratcitystudios.com   @debspottery

CREATIVE POTTERY
Publish Date: May 26th, 2020 | $30.00 · 192 pages · Hardcover · ISBN: 9781631598258
Quarry Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group