About Me

The Kiln Goddess is an artist/potter. She loves working in clay as well as metals, mosaics, and nearly all mediums she tries. She especially loves wheel throwing and working with clay slab. She is currently teaching clay art classes to adults at a small non-profit school where she lives.

Handbuilding in Clay

Welcome to The Kiln Goddess' Clay Pit for Handbuilding in Clay. Explore some handbuilding techniques, projects and resources for the clay artist and potter. Some of these techniques have been in use since man first touched clay, creating both pottery...

High Fire Glaze Recipes

Welcome to the Kiln Goddess' Clay Pit of High Fire Glazes. This lens is in no way finished but I was getting quite a few visitors to my empty, unpublished placeholder that I decided to throw up some info and links. Please come back and visit and watc...

Teaching Clay Art and Pottery

Welcome to the Kiln Goddess' Clay Pit of Teaching Clay Art and Pottery. This is another lens in the continuing series of lenses created for clay workers and clay wantabees. This lens will focus on helping clay art educators and teachers find online r...

Making Your Own Clay

Welcome to the Kiln Goddess' Clay Pit about Making Your Own Clay. There are two basic methods to making your own clays, either to buy the ingredients or dig your own indigenous clay from the ground. Lets examine the process for both. This lens as all...

Wheel Throwing

Welcome to the Kiln Goddess' Clay Pit for Wheel Throwing. The Kiln Goddess is a big fan of the wheel. Centering is so grounding, physically, mentally, and spiritually. To create on the wheel never looses its magic, the pottery seems to magically form...

Low Fire Glaze Recipes

Welcome to the Kiln Goddess' Clay Pit of Low Fire Glazes. This lens is no way finished but I was getting so many visitors to my empty, unpublished placeholder lens I felt I needed to put up something while I worked on completing it. So happy glazing....

Never Too Many Christmas Cookies

Merry Christmas. Come on in and have a cookie. You can never have too many Christmas cookies around the house during the holiday season. So no matter if you are a beginner baker or a seasoned seasonal human cookie factory come take break from the flo...

May the Kiln Goddess Smile Upon You

Welcome to the Kiln Goddess' Clay Pit. Here you will find a great collection of clay, clay art, and pottery related links, books, and other resources. What ever your clay interest, I am sure you will find some great discoveries. Have fun exploring. H...

Clay and Clay Prep

Welcome to the Kiln Goddess' Clay Pit of Clay ;) Clay is really what it is all about. This moist, slimey, muddy ball of clay is the beginning of journey. So where will your journey take you? Go grab yourself a lump of clay and find out. Still a work...

About Kilns

Welcome to the Kiln Goddess' Clay Pit of Kilns. Here you'll find info, links and some writing on my personal experience with kilns. Now I am far from all knowledgeable about kilns. Some kinds of kilns I have used while others are only known to me fro...

High Fire Clay Recipes

Welcome to the Kiln Goddess' Clay Pit of High Fire Clay. It is a small and growing lens. If you know of any sites with high fire clay recipes please suggest them in my guestbook.

About Glaze

Welcome to the Kiln Goddess' Clay Pit About Glazes. Glazing can be pretty simple and can be fairly complex depending on how deep you want to explore glazes and their chemical makeup. I have tried to touch on a little bit of everything here. This len...

Mid-Range Glaze Recipes

Welcome to the Kiln Goddess' Clay Pit of Mid-Range Glazes. Here you will find info and recipes about glazes fired to mid-range temps. The lens is still growing so you comments and suggestions are welcome.

The Green Potshop

Welcome to the Kiln Goddess' Clay Pit of Being Green. What do I mean when I say green? No, I'm not talking about all you green clay newbies out there. I'm not referring to greenware either. When I say green I mean recycling, reducing and reusing, a s...

Low Fire Clay Recipes

Welcome to the Kiln Goddess' Clay Pit of Low Fire Clay. It is a small but growing lens. Please, if you know of any low fire recipe sites please suggest them in my guestbook.

The Broken Shard

Welcome to the Kiln Goddess' Clay Pit of Mosaics. You might ask what is one of those dusty, mud cover, clay artists doing talking about mosaics. Well, I have a lot of shards. A broken bowl, a cracked plate they all accumulate into a big ole pile of...

Unglazed Surface Design

Welcome to the Kiln Goddess' Clay Pit of Surface Design. Come join our exploration into the surface manipulation of clay. Clay is such a tactile medium both to the maker and the user. Surface design is so important. Your surface may be smooth as glas...

Mid-Range Clay Recipes

Welcome to the Kiln Goddess' Clay Pit of Mid-Range Clays. It is a small and hopefully growing lens. If anyone has any links to any sites with mid-range clay recipes please suggest them in my guestbook because sadly I could hardly find any to post.

Clay Beads

Welcome to the Kiln Goddess' Clay Pit of Clay Beads. Clay beads are like mini sculptures that you can wear. How more personal an art form as something someone chooses to wear next to their skin. Choosing an adornment can be so telling, a little piece...

Precolumbian Florida

My passion is working in clay but I love to learn from the works of ancient cultures. My first class in precolumbian cultures was a class on Peruvian Art and Anthropology, then Mayan Culture and finally my research led my home to the Precolumbian Nat...

Precolumbian Native North America

I hope to make this a doorway to help others explore the precolumbian cultures of North America. It is a work in progress and will be slowly growing over time to include all areas of North America. Come see where this precolumbian passage can take yo...

Making Clay Tile

Custom tile work is an interesting and sometimes frustrating endeavor. Getting those tiles to lay flat can be a hair pulling challenge. Here is a collection of info and resources to help you meet the challenge of making tile that behaves. Happy Tilin...

About Clay Tools

Welcome to the Kiln Goddess' Clay Pit of Tools. Tools are wonderful. Tools are addicting. Lets talk about clay tools and what you will need to get started. Then we can talk about the tools we want just cause we like them. This lens is still under con...

The Bowl

The bowl is a simple object. It can hold everything or nothing. It can contain superficial items that are meaningless to your life or contain the precious life giving sustenances of food or water. The bowl is a trusted tool, an everyday friend, but s...

The Mighty Electric Kiln

Welcome to the Kiln Goddess' Clay Pit of Electric Kilns. Electric kilns are kinda like big, really powerful ovens. They are the least scary kiln to fire. There is no flame, no gas, no fire box, no loud roar, no drama. But she is powerful and can get...

Tad Crawford's Business and Legal Forms' Series

I've found myself suggesting Tad Crawford's book series 'Business and Legal Forms' a few times a week to both my online and offline artist friends. These books are so helpful and so full of must know information that every artist need to know in orde...

In Your Business

Welcome to the Kiln Goddess' Clay Pit of Business and Legal. The business  side of being creative can be dirtier than the mudiest clay pit but with a little education you can go armed  with information and the experiences of artists that ca...

Clay Pit Gifts and Gear

Welcome to the Kiln Goddess' Clay Pit of Gifts and Gear for Clay Artists and Potters, the place to help you find the right gift for favorite clay addict. Shopping for your favorite clay artist or potter doesn't have to be hard. Here are some things I...

Low Fire Commercial Glazes

Open up any clay and pottery supply catalog and you are greeted with a huge collection of low fire glazes to choose from. This is great to have so many to choose from but what glaze should you pick? This lens will hopefully help you wade thru the sea...

T-shirts For Potters

Working in the studio either on the wheel or doing some handbuilding can be a messy business, not to mention the mess you can make of yourself glazing. To a fellow clay lover your messy appearence is a sign of a busy artist, to the rest of the world...

Hairy Potters

Welcome to the Kiln Goddess' Clay Pit of Hairy Potters. Come with me on a grand magical adventure around the web in celebration of Hairy Potters everywhere.

Mid-Range Commercial Glazes

Welcome to the Kiln Goddess' Clay Pit of Mid-Range Commercial Cone 4-6 Glazes. Look in any clay supply catalog you will find an overwhelming selection of glazes to purchase with little info to go on to make your choice. This lens will hopefully help...

Commercial Glazes

Open up any clay and pottery supply catalog and you are greeted with a huge collection of glazes to choose from. This is great to have so many to choose from but what glaze should you pick? This series of glaze lenses will hopefully help you wade thr...