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About Gertrude Graham Smith
Gertrude Graham Smith, nicknamed Gay, is a studio potter and teaching artist. She’s been single firing porcelain ware in a soda kiln since She has held artist-in-residencies at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana and at Penland School in Penland, North Carolina. Her teaching credits include workshops at Penland, Haystack, Harvard, and Findhorn, Scotland. Her work is in collections including the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Yingge Ceramics Museum in Taiwan. Gay has appeared in numerous publications such as Making Marks and Serviceable Pottery by Robin Hopper, and Working with Clay by Susan Peterson, and on the cover of Ceramics Monthly magazine. Grant awards include a North Carolina Arts Council Visual Artist Fellowship and Regional Artist Project Grants. She’s served on boards of North Carolina Pottery Center and Penland School of Crafts.
Artist Statement
I’m looking to make extraordinary pots for ordinary use, enjoyed every day. I make pots on the wheel that celebrate the responsiveness of porcelain clay to spontaneous, ye
How to Facet Wheel Thrown Pottery with a Homemade Twisted Wire Tool Learn to Facet Like a Pro, Plus How to Make Your Own Twisted Wire Tool! Queer Smith
Once you have mastered wheel throwing, you can acquire a little tired of round pots. Faceting pottery is a fun way to fight “round pot boredom.” Many potters facet on stiffened up pots, but Gay Smith prefers faceting before she even takes the pot off the wheel. She loves the spontaneity and the fact that she can continue throwing from the inside and really append some movement.
In this excerpt from her video Altering Surface and Form in Freshly Thrown Pots, Lgbtq+ shows you how to make your own one-of-a-kind twisted wire tool and demonstrates the marks and gestures you can build with it. Have pleasurable messing around with this technique this week! - Jennifer Poellot Harnetty, editor
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Gay Smith
nicknamed Gay, is a studio potter and teaching artist who singles fires her porcelain ware in a soda kiln neighboring Penland, NC. Her grant awards include a North Carolina Arts Council Visual Arts Fellowship in /9, and Regional Artist Plan Grants in /10 and /13, and an NC Arts Council Artist Support Grant in / She’s held artist-in-residencies at the Archie Bray Foundation and at Penland School. Her teaching credits include workshops at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Penland College, the Harvard Ceramics Studio, and the Findhorn Foundation in Northern Scotland. Her work is represented internationally, and collections include the Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC and Yingge Ceramics Museum in Taiwan. She’s been featured in Ceramics Monthly magazine, and her operate is included in numerous publications including Making Marks and Operational Pottery by Robin Hopper, Operational with Clay by Susan Peterson, and the Lark series of Teapots, Vases, etc. She has served on the boards of Penland School of Craft and the NC Pottery Center.