Don Ellis Ceramics

A pot is an extension of the person creating it it becomes a piece of him.

Don ellis ceramics.

Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. This time on the garage tapes don shows us how to throw a candle lantern. He is a technician at firing and controlling every aspect of this approach. Don ellis owned cloudcroft pottery in cloudcroft new mexico.

Don ellis don is currently a professor of ceramics at san juan college in farmington nm. The item being sold is a raku fast fired piece with brass or copper wire and original pine needle piece. He has worked in ceramics creating pottery pieces and teaching pottery at colleges and in workshops around the usa and canada. See more ideas about ellis pottery pottery ellis.

Don ellis in the pottery studio in san juan college where he teaches over 100 students each semester. Don ellis from farmington new mexico has for over 30 years been striving to perfect his innovative approach as a functional potter and glazing expert. Fine arts fast fire pottery vase. Raku raku simply put is the rapid firing at a tow temperature of a porous tow bisque fired piece of pottery.

Since arriving 13 years ago class sizes have grown from an average of 10 students to over 25. Don attended mcmurry university and the university of north texas and graduated with degrees in education and ceramics. Don ellis lives and works hi the beautiful mountains of southern new mexico. He is best known for his extensive musical experimentation particularly in the area of time signatures later in his life he worked as a film composer contributing a score to 1971 s the french connection and 1973 s the seven ups.

Vintage don ellis raku pottery vase.