On the afternoon of Sunday, August 31, 2014, conference attendees dug clay in two locations, the first a yellow clay and the second a red clay. Jo Ann Weldon has formed and fired a pot from the first location, pictures are below.
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Bill Lucius, a potter and archaeologist from Colorado gave this presentation at the 2014 Southwest Kiln Conference on August 29, 2014. A slideshow featuring some of the folks who attended various Leupp/Southwest kiln conferences over the last 18 years, interspersed with pearls of wisdom.
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We just arrived back home after nearly a month in Germany, Turkey, Morocco and Spain! Before we left I laid out all of the pots that were fired in Snowflake, recorded which kiln fired them and made some interesting observations about the three black-on-white kilns that were fired. For convenience I will refer to them […]
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by WILLIAM A. LUCIUS AND DORDE WOODRUFF William A. Lucius of the Institute for Archaeological Ceramic Research (IACR) and Dorde Woodruff, representing the Leupp Kiln Conference, accepted an invitation by Winston Hurst and by extention the Utah Bureau of Land Management to demonstrate a replica Ancestral Pueblo Black-on-white trench kiln firing on the occasion of […]
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by WILLIAM A. LUCIUS AND WAYNE KEENE The fourth gathering of the Leupp Kiln Conference was held near Yellow Jacket in Southwest Colorado on Memorial Day Weekend, May 27th, 28th and 29th, 2006. The event was organized and hosted by Wayne Keene, with the assistance of Tim Wilcox and sponsored by the Institute of Archaeological […]
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Pictures of the 2014 conference. Click on the thumbnail to see them all. Over 200 photos including pictures of people making coil pottery, decorating pottery, pit firing pottery, open firing pottery, and more!
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Andy Ward, a potter from Arizona gave this presentation at the 2014 Southwest Kiln Conference on August 29, 2014. In this presentation he talks about how to locate, test and process native Southwestern clays for use in making pottery.
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Roger Dorr, a potter and archaeologist from Arizona gave this presentation at the 2014 Southwest Kiln Conference on August 30, 2014. In this presentation he demonstrates how corrugated pottery is produced in the same manner as was used by the Anasazi, Mogollon and other ancient Southwestern cultures.
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