good elephant pottery

This weekend is Greenbelt's Festival of Lights! The show is at the Greenbelt Community Center, where I teach my pottery classes. For the third year, I will be sharing a large booth with my super-talented students from the Advanced Functional Pottery class. This class is about both pottery skill and design, and everything we make is functional. One of the projects we worked on this year was a Three-Part Condiment Server:

Carol Wisdom's hand-built leafy dishes look organic, but fit together like a puzzle.
 

Amy Castner's small wheel-thrown bowls were altered to subtly hug each other.
 

Alan Dowdy cut and assembled his three compartments into one pot.
 

Karen Riedlinger made graduated sizes that nest together.
 

And here's mine! This is not the set I made during class (I sold that one a few months ago) but a design I developed more recently. As you can probably see, I took inspiration from both Carol's and Amy's designs. The pointy corners make good pouring spouts too.

Other projects we worked on this year include pitchers, canisters, ornaments, dinner plates, platters. We'll have lots of great pottery in every price range. Plus lots of these students were also part of the wood-firing, we'll be proudly showing off those toasty pots too. 

Click this logo for the event's website. Hope to see you there!