The Ceramics Studio Guide
What Potters Should Know
Published on 28. January 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-7643-5648-3 (ISBN)
Description
Learning
from others' mistakes is always more efficient and less costly than
committing them yourself. This book is packed with practical information
that will enable potters to successfully complete the many steps in
pottery production. Making functional pottery or ceramic sculpture
entails different skill sets and processes in forming clay, drying
clay, glazing, and firing. Any one of these steps can cause failures. As ceramics consultant Jeff Zamek points out, under ideal conditions a
beginning or advanced student would be guided by a teacher at every
step; mistakes and bad habits would be caught as they occurred and
corrected. While such learning situations are rare today, this book
fills the gap. As Zamek says,
"This book offers you forty years of wisdom, generated by my students'
and my client ceramics companies' issues with clays, glazes, and kiln
firing." With its solutions to common problems, this guide helps potters to succeed.
from others' mistakes is always more efficient and less costly than
committing them yourself. This book is packed with practical information
that will enable potters to successfully complete the many steps in
pottery production. Making functional pottery or ceramic sculpture
entails different skill sets and processes in forming clay, drying
clay, glazing, and firing. Any one of these steps can cause failures. As ceramics consultant Jeff Zamek points out, under ideal conditions a
beginning or advanced student would be guided by a teacher at every
step; mistakes and bad habits would be caught as they occurred and
corrected. While such learning situations are rare today, this book
fills the gap. As Zamek says,
"This book offers you forty years of wisdom, generated by my students'
and my client ceramics companies' issues with clays, glazes, and kiln
firing." With its solutions to common problems, this guide helps potters to succeed.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Atglen
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
243 color images
Dimensions
Height: 273 mm
Width: 215 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
736 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7643-5648-3 (9780764356483)
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Persons
Je? Zamek walked into a pottery studio in 1967 and started his career as
an amateur potter. After completing a degree in business from Monmouth
University, W. Long Branch, NJ he obtained B.F.A./M.F.A. degrees in
ceramics from Alfred University, College of Ceramics, NY. While there he
developed the soda ?ring system at the college and went on to teach at
Simon's Rock College and Keane College. During this time he earned his
living as a professional potter. In 1980 he started Ceramics Consulting
Services a ceramics consulting ?rm developing clay body and glaze
formulas for ceramics supply companies throughout the United States. He
works with individual potters, ceramics companies, and industry o?ering
technical advice on clays, glazes, kilns, raw materials, ceramic
toxicology, and product development. He is a regular contributor to
several ceramics magazines and technical journals. Je?'s books What
Every Potter Should Know and Safety in the Ceramics Studio, featuring
the safe handling of ceramic materials, and The Potters Health &
Safety Questionnaire, are available from Je? Zamek/Ceramics Consulting
Services. His latest book is The Potter's Studio Clay & Glaze
Handbook.
an amateur potter. After completing a degree in business from Monmouth
University, W. Long Branch, NJ he obtained B.F.A./M.F.A. degrees in
ceramics from Alfred University, College of Ceramics, NY. While there he
developed the soda ?ring system at the college and went on to teach at
Simon's Rock College and Keane College. During this time he earned his
living as a professional potter. In 1980 he started Ceramics Consulting
Services a ceramics consulting ?rm developing clay body and glaze
formulas for ceramics supply companies throughout the United States. He
works with individual potters, ceramics companies, and industry o?ering
technical advice on clays, glazes, kilns, raw materials, ceramic
toxicology, and product development. He is a regular contributor to
several ceramics magazines and technical journals. Je?'s books What
Every Potter Should Know and Safety in the Ceramics Studio, featuring
the safe handling of ceramic materials, and The Potters Health &
Safety Questionnaire, are available from Je? Zamek/Ceramics Consulting
Services. His latest book is The Potter's Studio Clay & Glaze
Handbook.