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Summer Brendlinger

Kilned with Kindness

I first fell in love with clay in high school and haven’t stopped my obsession since. After graduating from SOU in 2000, I did step away from Clay to become a classroom teacher, but I have recently shifted my focus to Clay full-time. My ceramic philosophy is to create affordable functional works of art that you will use in your daily life! Enjoy looking around and I hope you see some thing you just absolutely love. Most of my work is created on the wheel but I also have a passion for hand building and texture. I thoroughly enjoy creating art and teaching it! Please check out my Instagram, TikTock, website or Facebook for more information.

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Brona Brown

Brona’s Pottery

Brona started doing pottery in the mid 90s on Kodiak Island Alaska after she took a short community class on basic pottery skills. After that, she decided she wanted to continue to make her own items. She taught herself and made plenty of mistakes and funny looking pieces that were not always quite which she expected. her inspirations were her Czech heritage and the nature in the wilds of Alaska. Her favorite parts of the process are throwing and creating and shaping pieces. She always loves doing functional everyday items, kitchenware, and creating artsy mosaics. She always likes to hear stories about people’s favorite pieces and how they became favorite pieces and why.

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Sandy Brown

Potter on the Mountain Top

My current work is a combination of wheel-thrown bowls and platters and handmade, slab, tray forms brightly colored and textured.

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Lori & Michael Campbell

Random Fire

Random Fire is a small studio that loves to bring to you the world of alternative clay firing techniques.

We incorporate pit fire, raku fire, as well as sawdust fire, for the look of the pieces. Many are multi media, inclusive not only of clay, but different components such as driftwood, stones, and other natural elements.

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Michael Campbell

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Bob Causey

I first experienced throwing on the wheel in a pottery class at College of the Redwoods around 1975. Some decades later I rediscovered the joy of playing with mud when I realized that the school I was teaching at, Sisson Elementary in Mount Shasta, California had a wonderfully equipped ceramics studio just begging to be used. For the last ten years of my teaching career, I took my students into the studio, twice a week to create “kid art” by hand building and wheel throwing. Three years ago when I retired, I began taking ceramics classes from Sean Kenny at College of the Siskiyous. I now share a lovely studio with my talented wife Patt. Our view of the Eddy mountain range and Mount Shasta gave me the inspiration for this series of carved mugs.

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E-mail: bobatetsy@gmail.com

Phone (text only, please): 530-691-6721

Patt Causey

Artist’s Statement

Art has always been part of my life, as a writer, a weaver of fiber and baskets. I also work in metal, wood and paint, but I didn’t discover the joy of ceramics until I retired from teaching Math, Art and Science at a Middle School in Mt. Shasta. . I think John Prine’s lyrics best sum up my approach to being a maker of art:

“…Life is a blessing, it’s a delicatessen

of all the little things that you do…”

Email: pattcausey@gmail.com

Phone: (530) 768-6489 (text only, please)

Vicki Chamberlain

Vicki Chamberlain

Earthwares

My work focuses primarily on bonsai, kusamono and ikebana containers. Please visit my website (link below) to explore the available glazes. I am a bonsai hobbyist, and therefore appreciate the importance of creating just the right container for a specific bonsai. I would be honored to create a bonsai container for your collection in the size and style most appropriate for your needs.

My work can be found in the following states at:

California
- Mendocino Coast Bonsai (Mendocino Cal.)
Oregon
- Garland Nursery (Salem)
- Bonsai Society of Portland special events
Washington
- Bonsai Northwest (Seattle)
Online
- Kusamono Gardens

Please use the website link below for postings of upcoming exhibitions where my work will be sold.

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Wheel-thrown functional pottery has been and continues to be my strength, but currently my interests are moving towards sculptural, voluptuous shapes with a functional voice. Clay is my medium because it invites one to feel the work. I like to carve – carving takes an essentially flat surface and makes it three-dimensional. I love developing glazes that are interesting both to the eye and to the touch. Glazes that enhance the carved lines are my specialty. I am interested in the visual form and also the feel of the pot. I have developed glazes that are pleasant to hold as well as to see. It pleases me to see someone pick up one of my pots to feel the weight of it or to feel the curve of a sculpture. I work in stoneware and porcelain (a pure form of stoneware) clays. As the name implies, stoneware is vitrified in the firing, turning the clay back into “stone”, through firing at 2200 degrees F. The work is hard, waterproof and durable. My life long involvement with clay began with a yearlong apprenticeship focusing on functional pottery. I have had a home studio in California, Maryland and Oregon and have shared my love of clay through teaching in community programs in Iowa, Maryland, and Oregon.

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Email | Phone: (541) 441-4179