Tom Coleman Workshop Pre-NCECA 2012

A small piece by Tom Coleman.

Last weekend, just before NCECA 2012, I was lucky enough to attend a two-day workshop given by Tom Coleman at Shoreline Community College. Tom was generous with his work, knowledge, experience and humor, and it was a treat to get to know him a little, and his insights into the culture and community of clay.

Tom putting final touches on a freshly thrown form, pieced together from two cylinders and then stretched and altered.

Flaring out the rim of a bowl.

Trimming the foot of a faceted bowl.

The faceted bowl after trimming

A slip-brushed bourbon-bowl

Some thrown and altered cylinders

And another side of the same piece first pictured, now at home in my classroom.