Don Ellis Ceramics

Vintage don ellis raku pottery vase.

Don ellis ceramics. So we can always shine a little light. A pot is an extension of the person creating it it becomes a piece of him. Fine arts fast fire pottery vase. See more ideas about ellis pottery pottery ellis.

Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. Don ellis lives and works hi the beautiful mountains of southern new mexico. Don attended mcmurry university and the university of north texas and graduated with degrees in education and ceramics. He is best known for his extensive musical experimentation particularly in the area of time signatures later in his life he worked as a film composer contributing a score to 1971 s the french connection and 1973 s the seven ups.

He is a technician at firing and controlling every aspect of this approach. This time on the garage tapes don shows us how to throw a candle lantern. Raku raku simply put is the rapid firing at a tow temperature of a porous tow bisque fired piece of pottery. Don ellis don is currently a professor of ceramics at san juan college in farmington nm.

Since arriving 13 years ago class sizes have grown from an average of 10 students to over 25. Don ellis owned cloudcroft pottery in cloudcroft new mexico. Donald johnson ellis july 25 1934 december 17 1978 was an american jazz trumpeter drummer composer and bandleader. He has worked in ceramics creating pottery pieces and teaching pottery at colleges and in workshops around the usa and canada.

May 21 2016 explore deco to retro s board ellis pottery on pinterest.