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Jim Wallace
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- Eureka Springs, AR
- United States
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- What is your experience with ceramics in general. (Long answer encouraged)
- I sold my first dinnerware set that I threw on the wheel in 1966. By 1971 I had made and sold over thirty electric variable-speed potters wheels that my father had designed and patented. My mother taught ceramics and was Chair of the Department of Fine Art at Nebraska Wesleyan University (1974 to 1990). I received my MFA in Ceramics in 1984 at East Texas State University then taught and headed the Art Department at Texas A & M - Commerce 1986-1990. Then I Chaired the Fine Art Department at Muskingum University in New Concord, OH (1992-1998). Since 1998 I have been a full-time potter/sculptor in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. My studio is Paradise Pottery and Gallery. This year, 2016, then is my 50th year of actively making and selling pottery.
- What is your current involvement with electric fired ceramics? (long answer encouraged)
- Most of my work in the last twenty years is wood-fired, more is gas-fired recently and I've always fired a bit with electric kilns, mostly for bisque. Until just a few years ago I was content to fire in my larger kilns and I had a studio mate to work with. Now I work alone and the time it takes to fill the larger kilns is impractical to keep up with orders. So I have a newly discovered interest in using my electric kilns, but admittedly my knowledge of electric glazes is limited compared with reduction firing. .
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- I'm curious. Maybe I have something of value to share, all I can do is try.
- Where do you work on your ceramics projects?
- home studio
- Do you have your own, or participate in other ceramics Websites:
- http://www.facebook.com/paradisepottery/ and http:www.facebook.com/...
- How did you find this network?
- search engine
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Good day,
I am RonaId Morris, I saw your profile and I decided to contact you immediately. Can you get back to me on my email (ronmorri01@gmail.com) for full details.
Regards.