Horsehair & Obvara Pottery Firing

Learn about Horsehair Raku and Obvara Pottery with Instructor Keith H. Gordon while making your own art to keep and display. Keith will operate a portable gas-fired kiln to heat ceramic pieces to 1700F so they can be smoked while still hot. Participants can buy a bisque tile that they will then decorate using horsehair, feathers, iron chloride, and yeast solution (a technique from Medieval Europe). Experienced potters may bring their own bisque-fired ceramics to be fired and decorated with the same treatments. Each kiln load takes approximately an hour, and pots will be cool enough to take home about 20 minutes after they are decorated. Wall tiles can be hung with a glue-on Disc ($3 additional).

Class Fee:
All experience levels (10am class): $25. Materials Fee: $10 for one tile. Up to 2 additional times may be purchased during class. (limit 3 tiles per person).
Potters Class, (12:30pm): $25, plus $10/pot fired (limit 5 pots). Select and pay for the number of pots you will bring upon registration. No materials cost.