Wonders of the Wheel Teaching Teachers Episode The fascination with the potter’s wheel is universal.   Its something about the material, the motion, the rhythm, the trans it puts you under. It’s enchanting. All people are attacked… artistic and non… and yet sometimes the attraction remains as purely bystander status… never taking the leap into classes […]

Will This Kiln Fire…? There are kilns for just about everything you want to heat.  There are kilns for glass, clay, knives, metal clay, copper enameling, lampworking, glass blowing, salt firing, reduction firings, and everything in between.  Whether you new to fired arts or your looking to broaden the scope of your work you may […]

Behind the Curtain at Doghouse Forge In this episode knife making expert and artist, Johnathan Porter, takes us behind the curtain at Doghouse Forge. If you have any interest in making your own knife, Johnathan’s workshops are awesome.  Very professional and thorough.  Doghouse Forge Clinics 

The Great Love Hate Relationship of Every Fired Artist On day you want to wrap your arms around her and never let go and one day you want to push her off a bridge.  I’m talking about your kiln of course.  We love telling those stories of the day we opened the kiln and found […]

GLOTFELT’s BIO Co-owner of Sir Ramic Porcelain, Inc., and Jen-Ken Kiln.  I have been in the fired arts world most of my life.  My mother’s studio was one of the after-school bus stops and many days my twin brother and I opted to get off there instead of going home.  I only wish we kept better track of […]