Wild Wheeling with Joni Pevarnik

I recently attended a really great wheel throwing workshop with one of our wonderful local artists, Joni Pevarnik.  The one-day workshop was hosted by my friend Jada Ahern at Pima County's Northwest Art Center. 

The very full day included demonstrations by Joni of throwing 25 to 50 pounds of clay and making it in to wonderfully amazing tall vases, BIG bowls along with tea pots and tiny vases.  In between Joni's demos we were encouraged to try our hands at building multi-level/multi-piece pots of our own.

Here are two of the "tall" peices that I threw.  Each vase stands 11" and has been gas reduction fired to 2350 degrees F.

I'm very excited to try more tall pieces soon!

~ Kathy