The Ceramics Studio Guide

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Learningfrom others’ mistakes is always more efficient and less costly thancommitting them yourself. This book is packed with practical informationthat will enable potters to successfully complete the many steps inpottery production. Making functional pottery or ceramic sculptureentails different skill sets and processes in forming clay, dryingclay, glazing, and firing. Any one of these steps can cause failures. As ceramics consultant Jeff Zamek points out, under ideal conditions abeginning or advanced student would be guided by a teacher at everystep; mistakes and bad habits would be caught as they occurred andcorrected. While such learning situations are rare today, this bookfills 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 kilnfiring.” With its solutions to common problems, this guide helps potters to succeed.[AuthorName]Jeff Zamek[/AuthorName][AuthorBio]Je Zamek walked into a pottery studio in 1967 and started his career asan amateur potter. After completing a degree in business from MonmouthUniversity, W. Long Branch, NJ he obtained B.F.A./M.F.A. degrees inceramics from Alfred University, College of Ceramics, NY. While there hedeveloped the soda ring system at the college and went on to teach atSimons Rock College and Keane College. During this time he earned hisliving as a professional potter. In 1980 he started Ceramics ConsultingServices a ceramics consulting rm developing clay body and glazeformulas for ceramics supply companies throughout the United States. Heworks with individual potters, ceramics companies, and industry oeringtechnical advice on clays, glazes, kilns, raw materials, ceramictoxicology, and product development. He is a regular contributor toseveral ceramics magazines and technical journals. Jes books WhatEvery Potter Should Know and Safety in the Ceramics Studio, featuringthe safe handling of ceramic materials, and The Potters Health &Safety Questionnaire, are available from Je Zamek/Ceramics ConsultingServices. His latest book is The Potters Studio Clay & GlazeHandbook.[/AuthorBio][NumIllustration]243 color images[/NumIllustration][CoAuthor][/CoAuthor][SubTitle]What Potters Should Know[/SubTitle][ColorPattern]243 color images[/ColorPattern]