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2. Jim McDowell (ceramic artist) - Wikipedia

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   Afterwards, he returned to Pennsylvania and resumed work in the mines. Using an entire paycheck, he purchased a pottery wheel and a thousand pounds of clay. Education. McDowell studied art at Mount Aloysius College and took sculpture classes at Virginia Commonwealth University. As a potter, he is mostly self taught.

3. Potter's wheel - Wikipedia

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   Potter's wheel. Classic potter's kick-wheel in Erfurt, Germany. An electric potter's wheel, with bat (green disk) and throwing bucket. Not shown is a foot pedal used to control the speed of the wheel, similar to a sewing machine. In pottery, a potter's wheel is a machine used in the shaping (known as throwing) of clay into round ceramic ware.

4. Pottery of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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   Pottery of Sri Lanka. Traditional gurugal pottery of Sri Lanka, it is a type pottery made from "Kirimeti" (kaolin) and "Gurugal"/Guru stone (ferruginous nodules). Pottery of Sri Lanka is one of the traditional small industries. The pottery industry is distributed almost throughout the country and it has a long history and a tradition.

5. The Best Banding Wheels for Painting and Glazing Pottery - AOL

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   Once a pottery piece is off the wheel and dry, it often goes back on another kind of turntable, a banding wheel, so it can be painted, glazed, or otherwise embellished. The rotating platform gives ...

6. Ceramics of Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Wikipedia

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   Ceramics of Indigenous peoples of the Americas is an art form with at least a 7500-year history in the Americas. [1] Pottery is fired ceramics with clay as a component. Ceramics are used for utilitarian cooking vessels, serving and storage vessels, pipes, funerary urns, censers, musical instruments, ceremonial items, masks, toys, sculptures ...

7. Glossary of pottery terms - Wikipedia

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   Pottery is also: (1) the art and wares made by potters; (2) a ceramic material (3) a place where pottery wares are made; and (4) the business of the potter. ( W) Published definitions of Pottery include: -- "All fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed, except technical, structural, and refractory products."