Join us on Saturday, July 18 (10AM – 1PM) & Sunday, July 19 (10AM – 3PM) for Slip Resist Raku with Scott Tubby: a 2-day workshop exploring the decorative technique of raku pottery. In this workshop, participants will be using slip, glaze recipes and methods developed by Kate and Will Jacobson, originators of the technique, to prep their pots for firing, and then fire them in a specialty Raku kiln on the Manship property. Limited to 8 participants, each participant can bring up to five bisque fired pots ranging in size from an orange up to 9” tall. **Please note: Vase forms work better in this technique than bowls. All pots fired in this technique will not hold water or food and are purely decorative.

Slip Resist Raku, or Naked Raku, is a variation of Raku which is a 400-year-old Japanese firing technique. Slip (a liquid clay) is applied to the bisqued pot and then fired quickly in an outdoor kiln, removed from the hot kiln, placed in combustibles and then quenched in water where the slip pops off and reveals crackle patterns from the smoking process. It is a resist technique similar to Batik.

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About Scott:

Scott Tubby has been a potter for close to fifty years, gaining recognition for his burnished and sagger fired porcelain pottery as well as his raku pottery. He has exhibited his work extensively over the years and three of his sagger fired pots are in the permanent collection of the Museum of American Art in the Smithsonian. He currently owns and operates a gallery in Rockport MA where he displays his pottery and oil paintings.

Scott’s work can be found on his website, or on Instagram and Facebook @scotttubbyfineart.