Recent Posts Tagged With bruce gholson

• NC Faces and Places

  Posted on Sunday February 28th, 2010 at 10:22 am in north carolina pottery center bruce gholson samantha henneke

  The North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh issued a call for North Carolinians to send in their images of "What says North Carolina to you"? Well, for Bruce and I-- hands down its NC.Pottery for us. We found out about the submission on Thursday wi...

• Art on A Cup / The Decorated Yunomi

  Posted on Sunday January 10th, 2010 at 05:13 pm in akar bruce gholson

  This past week we shipped our Yunomis to AKAR's Yunmoi Invitational, which opens online on March 26 and continues through April 16, 2010. Around 200 potters have been selected to send 5 Yunomi's each. We find this show always fun to participate in, a...

• Carolina Designer Craftsmen: Some more images

  Posted on Thursday December 3rd, 2009 at 05:46 pm in bruce gholson samantha henneke carolina designer craftsmen 2009 charles pinckney lisa oakley

  Bruce and I had a good weekend at the Carolina Designer Craftsmen in Raleigh. The turn out of the public for the Friday afternoon preview party and evening hours went well too. On Saturday there was a NC State/UNC football game at the State Fair G...

• Gala Collaboratives out of the kiln

  Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 09:49 am in bruce gholson samantha henneke bulldog pottery donna craven celebration of seagrove potters 2009

  Here is the pair of 16" vases that came out of Ben Owen's kiln yesterday. Donna Craven threw these bottles and Samantha glazed them.The crystalline piece below came out this past Tuesday. Bruce threw the 24" bottle and Will glazed it....

• Found a kiln for Donna\'s and Samantha\'a Collaborative

  Posted on Sunday November 15th, 2009 at 02:23 pm in bruce gholson samantha henneke donna craven celebration of seagrove potters 2009

  We found a kiln to put our collaborative vase pair into (Donna's thrown vases and Dotty Sam's glaze combo). Ben Owens is loading a reduction kiln today and said he had room along with his 20" vases. YEAH!!! What a relief. Bruce loaded them in th...

• Up Until the Last Minute.... Donna, Fred, Samantha, and Bruce

  Posted on Wednesday November 11th, 2009 at 06:19 pm in fred johnston bruce gholson samantha henneke seagrove potters donna craven

  Samantha Henneke and Donna CravenBruce took some of our clay over to Donna's last week and she threw these two beautiful vases for Samantha to decorate. Below Dotty Sam is busy finishing up one of the vases. The other one Bruce brushed on red slip ...

• Ringing in the studio

  Posted on Wednesday November 11th, 2009 at 09:39 am in bruce gholson bulldog pottery

  Donna Craven dropped off two beautifully elegant bottles yesterday for us to glaze. These are for the upcoming Celebration of Seagrove Potters Gala one-of-a-kind collaborative auction. Since our Moka gas kiln firing is not going to make it in on t...

• Changing Gears: From Moka Glaze to Fluid Art Glazes

  Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 09:07 am in seagrove bulldog pottery studio bruce gholson samantha henneke celebration of seagrove potters 2009

  While finishing up some bowls yesterday the logistics of the pottery process dawned on me. I ran down the hill to fill Bruce in on my latest thoughts about our firing schedules. Why don't we change gears and glaze our vases and teapots for the Cele...

• If only these clogs could talk

  Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 08:36 pm in bruce gholson

  Bruce received a special package today in the mail. A package that made him very happy. The twelve year old clogs on the right are now officially retired. Something we have been meaning to do for a long time, but we kept putting it off. In the beg...

• Beginnings of a few Urns

  Posted on Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 at 08:41 am in bruce gholson carolina designer craftsmen 2009

  Bruce has been working on throwing four large urns in preparation for the upcoming Masterworks display at the Carolina Designer Craftsman Fine Craft and Design Show (CDC). These urns are the beginnings of our collaboration piece for the Masterworks d...

• Art of Tea at VisArts in Rockville, Maryland

  Posted on Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 at 09:02 am in bruce gholson art of tea at vis arts

  Art of Tea at VisArts, Rockville, Maryland on October 25 from 1-4 pmBruce's Fossil Fish Teapot and Two Yunomis will be part of the festivities at this years "Art of Tea" at VisARTS in Rockville, Maryland. The Art of Tea is a fundraiser for the Metr...

• Vase A Day : Last One

  Posted on Monday August 3rd, 2009 at 11:47 am in bruce gholson

  Porcelain Vase thrown by Bruce GholsonGlazes with flowing molybdenum crystalline glazes ( not as many crystals on this one)25" x 10.25"...

• A Vase a Day

  Posted on Friday July 31st, 2009 at 08:39 am in bruce gholson

  Tall Porcelain Vase by Bruce GholsonGlazed with molybdenum crystalline glazes with details of the glaze below.26.75" x 10"...

• A Vase a Day

  Posted on Tuesday July 28th, 2009 at 06:26 am in bruce gholson

  Bruce GholsonBaluster shaped vase with molybdenum crystalline glazes17.75" x 7.5"...

• A Vase a Day

  Posted on Monday July 27th, 2009 at 06:51 am in bruce gholson

  Bruce GholsonTall Vase with molybdenum crystalline glazes26.75" x 9.75"...

• Vase a Day

  Posted on Sunday July 26th, 2009 at 12:44 pm in bruce gholson

  Bruce GholsonLarge Baluster Vase with molybdenum crystalline glazes.16" x 8.5" x 8.5"...

• Draw + Decal MudFire Studios: Bruce Gholson

  Posted on Sunday July 12th, 2009 at 07:44 am in exhibition bruce gholson bulldog pottery

  These are some images of Bruce's pieces that are on display in the "Draw + Decal" exhibition at the Mudfire Studios in Decatur, Georgia. The show will be on exhibit until August 1.  I visited Mudfire at the beginning of July to drop off our work.  ...

• Bruce Gholson's : Art of the State: Cedar Creek Gallery

  Posted on Wednesday June 17th, 2009 at 08:26 am in bruce gholson

  9.5" x 6" x 6", Price -  $385.00Here are some up-close images of Bruce's pieces that are on display in the "Art of the State" group exhibition at Cedar Creek Gallery in Creedmoor, North Carolina.  The above porcelain three-footed vase excited us be...

• At the wheel in the Bulldog Studios

  Posted on Tuesday March 10th, 2009 at 09:27 am in seagrove bulldog pottery studio bruce gholson celebration of spring in seagrove catawba valley pottery festival

  Bruce is throwing some medium sized bottles.  I think he makes beautiful bottle forms, and I find it inspiring working in the studio with him.  We are trying our best to throw enough pottery to fill two reduction gas kilns.   We have a tight sched...

• Mixing clay the Champion Way

  Posted on Tuesday March 3rd, 2009 at 07:39 am in bruce gholson clay making in seagrove

  Bruce is putting Epsom salts into three bentonite buckets. One bucket per batch of clay.We acquired our vintage, pre-stainless steel, Champion dough mixer, three phase motor with a converter (which limits the batches to 100lbs dry),  from an artist ...

• Turning for Two

  Posted on Wednesday February 25th, 2009 at 06:30 am in bruce gholson samantha henneke bulldog pottery

  We are getting ready for two upcoming events. One is the Catawba Valley Pottery Festival in Hickory, NC at the end of March and the other is a Spring Kiln Opening here in Seagrove, on April 18th. We are trying to make enough pots to fill the gas kiln...

• A Pox on my Agate Yunomis

  Posted on Saturday February 14th, 2009 at 11:13 am in seagrove pottery bruce gholson bulldog pottery eagrove

  O.K. I have been called out by the blog master himself, Michael Kline.  My agate ware experiment, of which I was highly confident in a successful outcome, humbled me mercilessly.  It is one thing to feel confident in private, but to share that conf...

• Bruce's Yunomis for AKAR 2009

  Posted on Thursday February 12th, 2009 at 07:02 am in bulldog pottery studio bruce gholson

  These are Bruce's Yunomis for the upcoming AKAR Yunomi Invitational.   They are a mix of sprigged skulls and slip trailed fossil fish on red clay with thin layers of our crystalline glazes.  ...

• Bruce Gholson's Wood Fired Flattened Bottle

  Posted on Sunday February 8th, 2009 at 08:09 am in bruce gholson bulldog pottery

  Bruce Gholson, wood fired flask, 18" x 7.5 x 4.75"This flask was fired in David Stumpfle's large wood kiln some years ago. We try to hold on to examples of special pieces that we have made, and this is one of them in on our collection. I love the ...

• Decorated Yunomis in the Green Stage

  Posted on Tuesday January 27th, 2009 at 07:02 pm in bulldog pottery studio bruce gholson samantha henneke

  We have finished decorating our Yunomis.  These cups are Bruce's.  He turned three different clays together which we call agate.  We found that using smooth small particle clays that mature at a similar temperature, and of course similar water con...

• Samantha and Bruce Trimming their Yunomis

  Posted on Saturday January 24th, 2009 at 10:05 am in bulldog pottery studio bruce gholson samantha henneke

  We are trimming our Yunomis.  One more day of finishing work and our teabowls will be ready to set out to dry.   Looking at these images reminds me that we need to step back away from the wheel and rotate our necks.  No wonder we have neck aches i...

• Bruce Gholson's Yunomi's from 2008

  Posted on Thursday January 22nd, 2009 at 08:06 am in bruce gholson bulldog pottery

  Here are the 5 Yunomi's that Bruce sent to AKAR last year.  Ed fell in love with the above Yunomi with skulls and planned on buying it the day the show opened.  Unfortunately the piece was already sold by the time we were able to log on.  Which wa...

• Yunomi Deadline Causes Change in Plans

  Posted on Wednesday January 21st, 2009 at 07:42 am in seagrove bulldog pottery studio bruce gholson samantha henneke

  Bruce is working on one of his Yunomi's for the upcoming Yunomi invitational at AKAR We thought we would have time to make enough pots for our reduction fired gas kiln, but we looked at the calendar and realized "no way".  Quickly, we are changing ...

• Celebration of Seagrove Pottters: Gala Collaboratives

  Posted on Saturday November 15th, 2008 at 03:20 pm in seagrove seagrove pottery bruce gholson celebration of seagrove potters

  Ben Owen III threw the jardiniere pictured above and Michael Mahan designed the rope pattern imprinted on the piece. Many of the potters participating in the upcoming Celebration of Seagrove Potters signed the piece around the outside of the jar. T...

• Finishing up !!

  Posted on Sunday November 9th, 2008 at 11:30 am in seagrove bulldog pottery studio bruce gholson samantha henneke

  We are finishing up our thrown pieces in the studio. Bruce is pulling handles off of some mugs that he threw a couple of days ago and today is busily trimming some bowls.  I am working on trimming cups, tumblers, bowls and my covered jars.  I am al...