Pottery exhibit on display at UCC
By Megan SweeneyCeramic artwork is on display all this month at Umpqua Community College. A Corvallis man makes the pottery in a very unique way. Artist Sam Hoffman's porcelain and stoneware clay bodies are currently on display in the Whipple Fine Arts building. Hoffman throws his clay-bodies on a potter's wheel and then shapes different kinds of pots and plates. The technique used for these pieces is with high temperatures and different atmospheres.
"He throws these perfect pots and then he carves into them and makes indentations. Then with the firing process, he puts them in this wood fire kiln," said Gallery Director Susan Rochester. Rochester says a fire is built in the kiln with a team of people to stoke the fire. She says people were on-call for 24 hours a day, and the entire firing process takes about 100 hours.
Rochester says everything on Hoffman's pots are from the firing process.
"He doesn't put glazes on them, he doesn't put things on the exterior. All the decorations are decorations done by the fire."
Hoffman's pots are inspired by asian forms from China, Japan, Korea and Thailand. The heat reaches about 2,300 degrees and the firing process is actually done in a kiln in Elkton. The wood fired ceramics display by Sam Hoffman is open at the college, from 9-4 Monday through Friday. |
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"During that time period, it heats up. Embers, smoke, ash, vapors, all these things swirl around the pots and the things within the kiln itself."
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