Eco-Responsible Ceramic Studios

This panel presentation will delve into current and innovative eco-conscious approaches to ceramic studios. The discussion will focus on individual studio practices, institutional efforts towards sustainability, developing ceramics resources, and shifts that are taking place in the ceramic industry today. Panelists include ceramic professors Julia Galloway, Steven Portigal, and Joan Takayama-Ogawa, scholar Wendy Gers, and industry leader Bryan Vansell.
This event was streamed live August 13, 2021.
The Craft in America Center in Los Angeles is a craft-focused museum and library offering artist talks, workshops, exhibits and educational programs.
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[@aleksandraalexander4506]

Thanks to everyone who put this together and participated in this great discussion, it has certainly giving me tools to use in my own ceramic practice.

[@toddnorman1343]

Shout out to Julia Galloway - I went to college with her at the CU in Boulder Colorado. I still have one of her mugs - 30 years later. I am so glad to see that she has become world famous. She totally deserves it.

[@Naturamorpho]

Firewood is obviously worse in terms of particulate emissions. But it is renewable, non-fossil energy. specially in the case of waste wood, that was destined to be disposed of, in the small scale hobbyist scenario . Even electricity is fossil fueled in most countries... Are there hard numbers on this, to help us understand what really is going on?

[@toddnorman1343]

One of the main reason Potters can't make money as artists is the cost of firing. If Potters had solar and wind on their roves, an electrolyzer, and a backup hydrogen fuel cell they could produce their own fuel, hydrogen, for electric and gas burning kins. = zero emission energy independent pottery.