Items arrived

We got more tools in our shop recently. We have lots of Orton Cones and pottery batts. If you need some of them, just stop by or call us.

Large Bowl/ Platter Workshop 6/6

We had Large Bowl/Platter Workshop on June 6th. It was small workshop because there was a sudden cancel, but very successful class.
Trish made beautiful large plate and bowl. She focused on making simple and basic large scale pots. The bowl is more than 20 inch width.

Julie made nice plate and very feminine beautiful bowl. Very good job.

Those two guys are talking about wheel throwing. It's fun, isn't it?

Star Heritage Day Festival 2

STARworks joined the 11th Annual Star heritage Day Festival last Saturday and had booths in front of our building. Totally about 170 people came to see us and it was a good local community event.

STARworks Ceramics and STARworks Garden worked together and made a lot of Planter pots for sale, and many our friends who are Seagrove potters helped this fund raising in this spring. Thanks again!STARworks also cereblated our brand-new Walking Trail. It's made from recycled materials which is very soft and confortable for your foot, and 1/8 mile for one lap. Adam Landman (STARworks) worked on this progect. Come and try this eco-friendly walking trail.

Star Heritage Day Festival

There will be an exciting event which is "Star Heritage Day Festival" on June 6th (Sat), starts from 9am (this weekend!) in Star town.

STARworks will have booth set up in front of the entrance and we will celebrate our New Senior Walking Trail. STARworks also have a Planter Pots and Plants Sale which is a fund raising for STARworks and all profits from the sale will be used for STARworks programs.

STARworks Ceramics has been firing lots of planter pots and it's all done, and STARworks Garden is planting flowers and herbs in those hand made planters. Bulldog Pottery will have a Kiln Opening from 9am-5am.
And many more things to see.

Please come and join the Star Heritage Day Festival with us.

We're making clay Continued

We have got a problem for our Bobcat recently, but we are still making clay manually! We scoop tons of dry materials by hand and throw into the machine. The clay chunks the photo above are hand wedged by Santiago before putting in the pug mil because it was too wet. STARworks White 10 clay is very hand-made, high quality local clay mix with a lot of hard work, so please try it.

Variety of Mudtools arrived

Variety of Mudtools have arrived in our shop. This time we have got cutting wires and throwing stick tool as new items. Please check it out when you come.

Keep firing of Planter pots

We had Planter Pot workshops in February and STARworks Friends made many planter pots for our fund raising. After that, we have been keeping firing those pots and now more than 100 pots were done. They look very good. Thank you very much for your time and kindness.

Flower Pot Workshop (Feb 23, 2009)
Flower Pot Workshop was successful (Feb 28, 2009)

Special thanks to:
Bruce Gholson and Gloria (Bull Dog Pottery)
Meredith and Mark Heywood (Whynot Pottery)
David Stuempfle (David Stuempfle Pottery)
Mike Mahan (From the Ground Up)
Tim Ayers and Robin (Tim Ayers)
Evan Morgan (Wet Dog Glass)
Kacy Cook (NC Wild Life Resources Commission)
Mr. and Mrs. Cook (Kacy's Parents)
Crystal, Mike, Anne, Adam, Santiago, Takuro (STARworks)

STARworks Garden stated planting flower and herb seeds in those pots to be ready for the fund raising event. We will inform you about it in this blog shortly.

Plaster Mold Making Workshop

We had Plaster Mold Making Workshop today and participants made very nice plaster molds.

If you work on making plaster mold by your self, you must make many molds at the same time and try to use all of plaster, otherwise plaster goes bad so quickly once you open up a bag. So, it's very good idea you have people to make plaster mold together and share the bag! Also, good plaster mold can make many many pots and last long.

Thank you so much for taking this class, we enjoyed working with you.

Materials have arrived 5/12

We have got lots of ceramic materials in our warehouse recently. Please give us a call or send email if you need any materials. Also STARworks clay (Star White 10) is now in stock. Come and see us!

Test firing

We had a test firing today and Santiago was taking care of it all day long. When we make new batch of clay, we do test firing just in case.