Editor: Sumi von Dassow
Artists, teachers, students, and lovers of pottery will all find inspiration and education from the pages in this best selling Ceramics Monthly Handbook that reflects the great interest in pit firing and related techniques. Edited by Sumi von Dassow, the articles included in Barrel, Pit and Saggar Firing were carefully selected to illustrate the wide range of approaches to barrel, pit and saggar firing. Works ranging from wheel-thrown and coil-built pots to complex sculpture are tied together by a similarity in the firing process. Standard versions of these firing techniques, as well as innovative variations, are discussed.
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1. The Roots of Pit Firing: Raku Meets American Indian Pottery and a New Ammerican Technique is Born
- Finding Oaxaca by Eric Mindling
- All That Glitters by Constance Shunk
- Tammy Garcia by Gail Molnar Pfeifer
- Raku Then and Now by Hal Riegger
2. Pit Firing: A Unique American Technique
- Pit Firing in North Carolina by Dan and Linda Riggs
- Energy and Care: Pit Firing Burnished Pots on the Beach by Carol Molly Prier
- Embree de Persiis by Robert Reese
- Smoked and Pit-Fired Porcelain by Rebecca Urlacher
3. Firing Branches Out: Pit and Sawdust Firing in Brick Chambers and Barrels
- Salt Pit and Sawdust Firing by Peter Gibbs
- Smoke-Fired Pottery by Jane Perryman
- Jeff Kell by Maryalice Yakutchik
- Smoke and Color by Glenn Spangler
- Madhvi Subrahmanian
- Gabriele Koch
4. Rediscovering the Kiln: Saggar Firing
- Low-Temperature Salt/Saggar Firing by R. Bede Clarke
- Decorating with Volatile Materials in Saggars by Ruth Allen
- Fast Fossils: Carbon-Film Transfer on Saggar-Fired Porcelain by Dick Lehman
- Seashell Fuming by Kelvin Bradford
- David Atamanchuk by Joel Perron
- Elisabeth Anderson by Virginia Hillhouse
- Smokeless Saggar Firing by Macy Dorf
5. Returning to the Roots: Burnishing and Black Firing
- Juan Quezeda: Potter in a New Tradition by Elaine Levin
- The Spirit to Learn, the Spirit to Teach by Norbert Turek
- Freedom's Just Another Word by Sumi von Dassow
- Burnishing and Dung Firing by Marsha Judd
- Magdalene Odundo
6. Forming Techniques for Pit and Saggar Firing
- Collaborative Throwing by Susan and Jim Whalen
- A Sense of Timelessness by Jimmy Clark
- A Soulful Sound by Janie Rezner
- Handbuilt Vessels by Dale Allison Hartley
- Clay, Nails, and Smoke by Jerry Caplan
- A Female Form: The Sculpture Techniques of Margaret Keelan by Benny Shaboy
- Jean-Luc Mas
- Kevin Nierman by David Brin
7. Playing with Fire: Experiemental Kilns and Related Firing Methods
- A Paper Kiln by Caroline Court
- Barbeque and Fireplace Firing by Mollie Poupeney
- Freedom to Discover by Will and Kate Jacobson
- Bennett Bean: Playing by His Rules by Karen S. Chambers
- Vapor Glazing in a Saggar by Richard Behrens
- Low-Fire-Salt Fuming by Paul Soldner
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