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In October 2002, I had the privelege of filming a 3-day woodfire workshop held at the John Woolman School in Nevada City, CA. This workshop was lead by Richard Hotchkiss, ceramic arts instructor at Sierra College-Nevada County Campus. I thank the artists for their openness to me & my camera. Here are frames taken from the film.

Hand made bricks & climbing kiln Closing chambers 3 & 4 Dick loading chamber Glazed ware staged outside the chambers Glazed pots Group shot Steve is glazing his pot. Note the tattoo. Day 3. - Looking in kiln Milan Young admiring one of his beautiful pots Fire mouth and chamber 1 Passing the pot Red hot stoke hole plug. Pensive Thought Richard Karnuth instructing the morning crew River & Ted...Student & Teacher Sally Osborn sings to the rhythm of the flame Shelf stains... cool design Smokey firestart Stoke Hole with Stick Suzanne explains the slips she uses on her bowl Ted Menmuir explains the theory behind the cones Ted Menmuir repairing chamber 6 Day 3 opening the doors to cool the ware Brooks, Woody Busch Johnston Buttes Tower Eacobacci, Richard Ellis, Norman Engle, Ken Fireglowrelay HeartOfTheWorld Jakobs, Charlie Jesse Lopez Stairs Kathy E (car phone) Kiln Art Luminary Icon Me & Ralph Meals, Hank Patty Backlight Sunset crop Patty Buttes GL2 Patty GL2 Patty Rockwall Buttes Patty at Buttes Portrait.jpg-thumb_105_140 Simple Cat Logo Webribbons YubaRocks sticker_closeup swlogo yuba