The Arrowmont Experience and the September Soda Firing.

Our friend Emily Nickle, a former work study from this summer and Ceramics Instructor at The Kentucky School of Craft, just published a nice blog on her experience here as a work study this summer. There are lots of photos and she covers a wide spectrum of experiences from her stay here. You can read it at EmilyNickel.com. She talks a great deal about many of the workshops she was able to attend and others that were going on while she was here as well as her adventures off camps. Its a good read for any of those interested in what being a work study here with the Arrowmont family is like.

I also wanted to share with those of you who do not follow me on any of my other online outlets what I am up to. As I am sure you saw last week we had Justin Rothshank here teaching a decaling workshop and since this was one of the items that I was interested in pursuing during my residency I followed along. I also had a firing this past weekend and was able to do a little decal work on a hand full of those pieces. Here area few images from that latest firing.
You can also see more of my work at www.hpbloomer.com or www.bloomerpottery.wordpress.com
Hope you enjoy!
HP

 

Fisrt Week of Fall Classes.

The first of the fall classes will be wrapping up today. Its been nice to have students bringing the campus back to life. We had a small but great group of teachers and students this week. I spent a lot of time peaking in on Justin Rothshanks decal class but there was so much going on in all of the classes. Here are a few pics from this week.
HP Bloomer

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Stray Pics.

Here are a few random pictures from the last two weeks of summer classes. I never got around to posting them during the classes. Enjoy!
-HP Bloomer

 

Unloading Time Lapse and Soda Kiln Images

This is a time lapse I did of my unloading this week. This was my first firing in the Arrowmont Soda Kiln and while it was slightly uneven it was still a pretty good firing. Its nice to be pulling work out o f a soda kiln again. While I  have enjoyed the ease of loading and firing  gas or electric kilns I have missed the surfaces that the atmosphere imbues upon the work.
-HP Bloomer

(Music by and used with permission of Spitfire Tumbleweeds and TXMF Records)

 

Glazing and Wadding and loading and time lapse....

I've been busy getting work glazed and ready for loading into the soda kiln over the last week. Here is a clip of me glazing late into the night at light speed and another of wadding pots and loading the bottom shelf of the soda kiln here at Arrowmont. I will try to take another time lapse of the unloading and will be attempting to shoot all the work before taking it up to the Artist In Residence Open studio this Wednesday at 5pm. Hope to see some of you there.

Enjoy!

-HP Bloomer

just past the red barn...

If you've ever been to Arrowmont, you know there is a magic land beyond the red barn where nature is reclaiming its territory. I took some photos many weeks ago and thought I would share...