Description
Friday, Saturday, Sunday, August 28, 29 and 30
Friday 9-6, Saturday 10-5, Sunday 10-2ish
Join us as we build and fire a low-fuel, low emission Rocket Kiln using scavenged materials to achieve low, midrange or high fire in just a few hours using the wood from several split-up pallets. Using small-diameter wood stoked vertically, the rocket kiln’s uniquely efficient “j-tube” design features turbulent air currents that creates thorough combustion of all the released wood gases and cleanly fires wares – producing no visible smoke and using one-fourth or less of the fuel used in a typical wood firing. Smoke and fire are not visible during firing. A potter with access to a few firebricks, a kiln shell, a simple portable chimney, and dry scrap wood such as pallets can finish small loads on their own schedule using this fast firing design. Like a portable raku kiln, it can be placed in an urban driveway, art center, or off-grid studio.
In this workshop, participants will build a rocket kiln on Friday and at the same time fire the portable rocket kiln to cone 5 with cups of soda mix throughout. On Saturday after unloading we will fire the new kiln to cone 10 soda and fire the portable to cone 04 with Jungle Gem glazes. On Sunday we will unload the two kilns and have a discussion of the kiln’s results.
Check the Materials tab to see what you need to bring with you.
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Refund policy:
Refunds will not be given within one month of the start of a workshop. Workshops are not pro-rated. A $25 processing fee is withheld from all refunds.
The Art Center reserves the right to cancel any workshop due to insufficient enrollment, in which case tuition will be fully refunded.
Lisa Orr has been a studio potter for 40+ years. After completing an MFA at the NYSCC Alfred in 1992, she received a Fulbright, an MAAA/NEA and other grants to research ceramics and create films. Her work has been placed in numerous public and private collections. Currently refining an accessible smokeless wood kiln, she also teaches, lectures, and shows nationally and internationally.