Emptied the last soda kiln of the season! It’s the best batch I’ve had so far!

Three small ceramic bowls with color gradation caused by soda ash added to the kiln during firing.

Teeny tiny #sodafired bowls for trinkets.

Handmade handled mug. Beige and brown lines run horizontally. The top edge is glazed dark blue.

This morning’s cup of tea. Swirled white and black clays turn to many shades if brown.

Do you know what causes the difference in the sound? #pottery

“Everything is on fire, but everyone I love is doing beautiful things and trying to make life worth living, and I know I don't have to believe in everything, but I believe in that." -Nikita Gill

Two oblong clay forms. One is white with fuzzy black dots, the other is white, purple, pink, and yellow with an abstract flower design.

Over the next few weeks, I have ceramic rattles shaped like pods coming out of several kilns. I used mocha diffusion and underglaze transfer to design these pieces. #ceramics #pottery #YQG

2026 Seminars | C19 Society

C19 Seminar: Indigenous Waterways
Submissions due Sept 15

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Sodafired cup with variations of orange down the side and purples around the rim

Soda fired cup. White slip poured over speckled clay, carved with flashing slip.

Just a little 10lb sgraffito bowl.

Love these!

Carved vase with blue-green flashing slip

A soda-fired vase from the last kiln. Carved with a blue-green flashing slip.

Ooh! Can’t wait to see these fired!

Warm yellow brown pitcher fired in a soda kiln.

My most recent pitcher. I am really happy with the shape and carving on this piece, but I don’t plan to keep using the speckled clay in the soda kiln. #sodafired #pottery

Interdisciplinary grant writing. The best advice I have for interdisciplinary scholars writing grants is to focus on describing what you are doing and why to your non-academic aunty who wants to care about you and your work, but really doesn’t get it.

It’s gorgeous!

The joy of the soda kiln. The more I look at this piece the more I like it. At first I was disappointed because most of this piece is very dark grey, but I love this side. It’s growing on me.

I glazed it last night! Soon we will see!

A month ago Ford City Potters had a party and threw 10lb wide bowls. Mine is finally bisqued. I made the mistake of getting attached and now I am nervous to glaze it. I’m thinking of using a pear green glaze that reacts with the black slip.

I get that if we are not teaching our students to use AI effectively, smartly, responsibly, they will use it in uncritical ways, but I also can't stomach the environmental cost of assigning AI exercises in classes - who else is thinking about how to balance these concerns in their teaching?

www.grad.ubc.ca/country/unit...

UBC Vancouver is opening applications for grad students negatively affected by US actions from April 14 to 18. An option for students seeking to complete or continue studies.

Thoughts on RDM (Research Data Management) and Indigenous Data Sovereignty? I see how they could be mutually supportive, but the move towards required RDM plans just feels like the creation of a norm in which all data is collected by the state, which didn't go so well in the past...

I just started making the thumb prints because it makes it so much more comfortable and easy to hold!

There's an article I love to teach in courses on US history or on protest, but I don't know if it meets your goals - Amy Swerdlow's “Ladies’ Day at the Capital: Women Strike for Peace versus HUAC.”

It's a great color and a gorgeous piece!

I heard there was some sort of update to the purple haze - is this the result?

Statement on Palestine, Genocide, and Repression The Department of American Indian Studies issues a statement in support of Palestine.

Yesterday, the U of Minnesota deleted the American Indian Studies’ statement on Palestine. (Also deleted was a story about Leonard Peltier’s return home and five other dept statements on Palestine.) Our expertise matters if we don’t oppose genocide. web.archive.org/web/20250322...

This week I am thinking A LOT about redistribution - when social services and supports are actively being dismantled, how do we best prepare to recreate community-based networks of support? How do we normalize redistributing wealth, when some have more than they need and others need far more?