Brandon “Fuzzy” Schwartz

Day One at the Middlebury Fall Festival

I just returned from the Middlebury Fall Festival and got cleaned up. It was a full day of packing, setting up, demonstrating and selling pots. I’m ready for bed but I still have some cleaning and preparing to do for tomorrow. I’ll be back at it tomorrow from 9 to 5. If you’re near Middlebury stop in and check it out. Here’s a picture my wife snapped:

demonstrating at the fall festival

Hopefully I’ll have a full write-up after tomorrow. And I unloaded the kiln two days ago. There were some great pieces!

September Clay Studio Report

Towards the end of my summer break I got back into the clay studio and I’ve been trying to dedicate some time to the dirt now that school has started up again.

I just received some new clay tools on Friday from Clay King who had a Labor Day sale featuring some 99 cent specials and textured rolling pins for 4.99.

new clay tools

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Goshen Pottery Workshop Video

Back in August I attended the first Goshen Pottery Workshop. It was awesome. I took a bunch of photos and also captured a number of video clips. Mostly for my own use later but I put together a video with a segment from each presentation. The world premiere:

Or here is the link to the ‘Tube.

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Summer Pots

Here are some of the pots from my last glaze fire on August 6th.

Warm Brown Stoneware. Wheel thrown. ^6 oxidation.

: bowl with black splashes

: brown bowl

: blue bowl

: jen’s juicy fruit over blue glazes

: juicy fruit over bone white

: large vase

: jen’s juicy fruit

: serving bowl

: side fired tumbler

: upside-down fired cup

: waterfall brown cups

: wax resist and juicy fruit

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Goshen Pottery Workshop, The First

There are some great benefits to living in the Goshen area. On Saturday I experienced another shining example of this at the first installment of the Goshen Pottery Workshop Series. I’ll admit, it was my first pottery workshop so I have nothing to compare it to but the surface class I took last summer… but it was amazing. Not only did I get to spend half a day with some of Goshen’s finest potters, I got to experience 3 hours of the best demonstrations that money can buy. And it all happened practically in my backyard.

The Goods

So the following is my account of this tremendous time. Disclaimer alert: this is mostly from memory so there may be a few things that I don’t remember quite right, or things that I don’t remember at all!

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