Mugs
Carve and Glaze Your Way to Spring with Bailey Pottery
Spring has sprung! Breathe new life into your pottery with this guide. We'll show you how to carve floral designs using Xiem tools and achieve a stunning pop of color with AMACO Celadon glaze. Get ready to transform your pottery into a celebration of the season!
A Look Inside the SUNY New Paltz Ceramics Program
Make a Pumpkin Inspired Mug!
It’s Fall y’all! What better time than now to make pumpkin inspired mugs? Make some for you and some for your customers because it’s pumpkin spice and everything nice season!
Throwing Using a WiziWig Profile Rib
Bailey's Lyla has created a demonstration video showing the ease of using WiziWigs Profile Ribs. She chose the Bowl Makin' Bob to quickly make a bowl.
#MadewithaBailey Interview with Lora Shelley
"I find the frustrating part with ceramics is also the exhilarating part. All could be lost in the kiln if a glaze doesn’t work out, or if something was too wet or too dry. It doesn’t happen often but it is also the addicting part — that moment of opening the kiln is like Christmas morning! Did all my hard work pay off? Did something exciting happen that I wasn’t expecting?
Mystery Pot 39 Maker, Stanley Mace Andersen
“This technique provides a wide range of bright, sharp colors. More importantly, I feel the majolica technique best allows me to convey the kind of attitude or feeling I want my pottery to invoke – that is one of lightheartedness.”
Stanley Mace Andersen’s functional earthenware tableware certainly achieves his goal. The exuberance of his flowing brushstrokes creates a rush of good feelings, like a walk through a meadow on a perfect summer day.
Life in a Cup, Reflections for the New Year
As has been our tradition at this time of year, Jim and I wanted to share our favorite mugs with you. These are not new mugs you are looking at or mugs you could buy in a store today, but mugs we have been living with for many years now.
May Mug Giveaway!
When Anne was at NCECA in Portland this year she bought this beautiful mug from artist Ben Jordan. "I was immediately taken with the balance of form and function in this piece. The floral decoration is integrated extremely well with the form. The handle is comfortable and fits very nicely in the hand. The clay is a rich rust red and the glaze reminiscent of a sepia photograph. It has a perfect high pitch ring when you flick it. Even the bottom is decorated! Beyond these technical things, it's just an absolutely gorgeous piece of pottery; so well considered in each and every way. I had to have it and brought it back to Kingston with me to share with all of you. If you do not know of Ben Jordan now you do. Here is a short interview with Ben Jordan." -Anne Bailey at NCECA 2017
Say Yes to Beautiful Things!
Oh, the power of beautiful things!