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...three exhibiting potters, members of the Radcliffe Pottery Studio, exhibit wide variety in their glazing techniques. David Pribnow characteristically uses matte glazes of different colored slips (liquid clays), which he paints on meticulously in geometrical patterns. Along with the slip method he uses salt glazing, throwing salt into the kiln at a critical moment, producing glassy, speckled surfaces. The shapes are globular and difficult to throw; the decorations rigidly geometrical. The result is the antithesis of accident--he inspires admiration, not empathy...
...their schools nonpolitical. Despite their diverse resources, Kozol says that many of them offer children only "unimportant options," such as a choice between working with "bright and whimsical gadgets" like a packaged science game, or doing "their own thing" at the weaver's loom and potter's kiln. To Kozol, these choices are not really free, at least not in any way that genuinely matters. Instead of confronting their students with moral dilemmas and social problems, these schools offer only "the pretense of free choice within a carefully constructed framework of contrived and managed possibilities." Moreover, the schools...
...immediately useful to the potters. A large bread dough mixer pronounced dead by the Food Services received a new set of gears and has mixed over 30,000 pounds of clay in its new career. The large gas service and exhaust system is being converted to fire the gas kiln presently under construction...
...second, equally striking example, is the almost-completed gas kiln. Commercial models of comparable size cost in excess of $5000 plus shipping and installation. Rippe designed the kiln himself, and students are assisting him with its construction. He estimates that the kiln--which will be paid for by student registration fees and a loan--will cost less than half the retail price...
Rippe calls the construction of the gas kiln a major improvement in the pottery's facilities. The addition of the gas kiln makes the pottery as well-equipped as most art school ceramics departments. A student will now be exposed to the full range of possibilities that the best professional potters have at their disposal...