Lake Superior Pottery | Jonathan Walberg | Episode 1093
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Jonathan Walberg's techniques and methods are influenced by his apprenticeship at St. John's Pottery in Minnesota (2004-06) under Richard Bresnahan, studies in Karatsu, Japan (2006-10) and in Ulsan, Korea (2010). These experiences nurtured a love of clay, the use of local materials, clay history, and wood-kilns. Jonathan creates on a Japanese-style wooden kick wheel and processes local clays and ashes for pottery use just south of Bayfield in Washburn, WI. Jonathan uses beach-sand from the South Shores of Lake Superior mixed into porcelain. This creates random black spots from the iron-rich sand. The local clay is also iron-rich and is mixed into the clay or glaze creating rich dark greens, reds, browns and blacks. Jonathan makes traditional ash-glazes from local Maple and Oak trees.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Potter's cast. |
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| 0:14.1 | You've just come to episode number 1093 of the Potter's cast. |
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