Blog by Harlan House RCA
Why focus on the technical side of a ceramics studio? For the longest time, I have known that in order to actually create the objects I can imagine, I will need the tools to get the job done. The tools lie asleep in thousands of years of making traditional objects. The move away from traditional ceramic knowledge has been gradual, …
I met Maureen at a ‘get acquainted’ dance in high school over fifty years ago. I did not take her home from that dance, but her presence stayed. A couple of days later, a friend and I were talking in the hallway, when Maureen walked by. She flashed the most wonderful smile that announced to me, ‘I am on your …
Sometimes all one has to do to become successful is to change the definition. This has worked wonders for most countries in the world that at one time had metal for money, and then chose the gold standard for issuing bills. These countries changed away from the gold standard and use the US dollar as their reserve currency. With no …
Hello! We have good news…no Maureen is not having a baby…but a new baby is on the way. Our son Abraham has made us a new web site. We think it is the kind of thing that brings us in from the dark, and keeps us in touch with all of you. Kicking and scratching as you might imagine, I …
Many years ago, I learned how to make sprigs for use in decorating porcelain. For fun, I added a very small frog sprig to the inside wall of a slip cast coffee mug. As the user drank, all of a sudden there was this creature on the coffee shoreline. The frog sprig became so popular that people would not buy …