JEANETTE MANCHESTER HARRIS

The Master of the Pot One thing you can usually say about an artist's work: It will change. I've seen lots of my fellow pott...

Do you ever wonder where your work wound up? Ever want it back? This happens to me sometimes. I made a sugar and creamer once - str...

My Advice to Artists Keep your best work. Consider making two of each thing and keeping one.  Keep the better of the two and s...

I highly recommend this book to any artist! Confidence builder, sympathetic sounding board, No, you are Not crazy.  Encouragement r...

Since, at the moment I don't have access to clay or equipment, I have been spending time "cleaning out" my computer.  ...

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." Sir Francis Bacon, English author, ...

I have an old 3-ring binder standing on a music stand in my studio. A pencil is tied to the stand with a string. (I can NEVER find a pencil...

I just opened my January issue of Ceramics Monthly and saw they had published my suggestion about how to make a foam trim batt , first seen ...

Photo by the very talented Erik Johansson. See more at http://www.alltelleringet.com/ Break a lot of bad pots. My rule is, if it offends me,...

The other day I decided I needed a mold of a half sphere. I'd been prowling toy and variety stores to find a child's ball large enou...

This is a plate I got a little intense about when I was throwing it on the wheel. I pushed the rim too far and it did this. I cut it off fro...

Hugh MacLeod , a corporate guru/artist says, "Ignore Everybody" when it comes to creativity. His book of the same title has been o...

I keep files on my computer desk top labeled: Reference Clay, My Work, Teapots. Whenever I download digital images of my work, I stick them ...

Become Master of the Pot Art books are expensive, but they really never go out of date. I still have my old Daniel Rhodes' Clay and Glaz...

When I was working at a 'regular job', I commuted an hour+, worked eight hours plus, sometimes attended an evening class, commuted b...