Potters Talk: Winter Sale, New Products, Contest

October 26, 2007

Welcome to Potters Talk, Highwater Clays’ e-newsletter! Potters Talk was designed to give customers up-to-the-minute information on sales and new products while sharing information and tips.

Highwater Clays’ Cool Winter Sale

This winter Highwater cuts prices on the following models:

KM 1027 (7 cubic-foot Kilnmaster)

KM 1227 (9.9 cubic-foot Kilnmaster)

KS 1227 (9.9 cubic-foot kiln with sitter and timer)

KS 1027 (7 cubic-foot kiln with sitter and timer)

KM1227PK (9.9 cubic-foot, three-phase production kiln with Kilnmaster Controller)

These energy-saving, electric kilns come with stainless steel jackets.
The 1227 series comes equipped with three-inch firebrick that provides
additional insulation while saving even more energy.

Highwater is also discounting our Brent Wheels and Shimpo Wheels.

These products are on sale from November 12 to december 22.

See the latest Highwater Clays’ catalog or call our customer service
specialists at 828.252.6033 for more information. Mention you saw this discount in
Potters’ Talk to hear about special prices on select books.

Highwater Clays’ Gets Around

And Around, And Around...

Our Highwater family keeps growing.

In this second installment of our “Highwater Clays Gets Around Contest” Mary Jane Harrison contributed a picture of herself wearing a vintage Highwater Clays T-shirt. (You know you have a lifelong friend when they’re still wearing a branded shirt 10 years after buying it.)

The first person identifying the location where this shot was taken wins a shirt or cap of his or her own. Click image to load a bigger picture for careful investigation. Please send your best guess to us at randy@highwaterclays.com.

We are also still accepting digital media files for our “Be Part of the Highwater Picture” contest. Share your video – Media Window Player, Quicktime or AVI file – and win a Highwater Clays’ hat, apron or T-shirt. You may provide a link if your video is too large to send via e-mail.

Holy Gripper! (Batman)

Highwater Clays is pleased to offer a new bat-gripper.

This gripper allows you to hold down all those loose worn bats and keep them from wiggling or flying off your wheel head.

Just wet it, place it over your bat pins, and forget it! Developed from a special material that applies gripping power to hold down your old bats, this is an excellent tool to use when bat pin holes have enlarged and can no longer hold down a bat.

This material is durable and will not crack or become brittle when it dries out. All you need to do is add water and away you go! This gripper is available in both 12" and 14" to accommodate different sized bats.

E-mail our customer service representatives to order or ask more questions. Download more information.

De-mystify Mason Stains! Download our brief PDF Guide!

Wheel of Wow

Choice is a good thing.

Customers buying a Shimpo RK or VL Whisper wheel from Oct. 15 to Dec. 31 will receive one of three free gifts.

A copy of “Modern Japanese Ceramics: Pathways of Innovation & Tradition” by Saeko Ito.

A Shimpo Hand Extruder (including dies) with a 2 1/4" barrel and six dies, including one blank one to make your own custom shape.

A $25 donation to CERF, the Empty Bowls Project, or the National K12 Ceramic Exhibition Foundation.

Call or e-mail our customer service specialists to order your wheel today.

Things are RAD in Asheville in November!

Studio Stroll!

Get an inside look at over 50 working artist studios during the fall River Artists District Studio Stroll, Nov. 10 and 11. Mingle with, potters, jewelers, sculptors, photographers, musicians, quilters, fabric artists, woodworkers, and glass artists.Odyssey studio potters will be demonstrating their work throughout the weekend, so stop in to say hello.

Twenty-two Odyssey studio artists will be participating in the Studio Stroll.

The school and studio will be transformed into a lovely gallery space and artists will display everything from sculpture to functional dinnerware. Odyssey will be demonstrating both in the studio and in the school, food and refreshments will be available, and kids’ activities are scheduled throughout the event.

Highwater Clays and Odyssey Center for the Ceramic Arts will be demonstrating this year at the American Craft Show in Charlotte from Nov. 2 to Nov. 4.

This is the 13th year that the American Craft Council has held this event and organizer expect more than 220 of the nations leading artist to be there. The show also features jewelry, furniture, clothing, home décor and other crafts in addition to pottery.

There will be daily raffles, giving visitors the chance to win gift certificates to redeem at the show every day.

Doors open Friday, Nov. 2, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 3, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 4, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tickets are $12 for a one-day pass and $18 for a two-day pass. Children 12 and under and American Craft Council members are admitted free.

Stop by the Charlotte Convention Center or visit http://www.craftcouncil.org/charlotte/ for more information.

Making History Matter

Highwater is a sponsor for an exhibition exploring functional work by potters who studied at Black Mountain College in the 1950s. this exhibit is open until January 19, 2008.

Events run from Oct. 3 until Nov. 30 and include the following:

Saturday, Nov. 10, 10 a.m.– 4 p.m. - How to love this world: Poetry by Hand and Heart a workshop with Paulus Berensohn.

Friday, Nov. 30, 8 p.m. – A Dialogue with David Weinrib, Black Mountain College Potter.

A rare opportunity to hear first-hand about the Black Mountain College pottery program and the amazing artists who worked at the school in the early 1950s as well as the post-BMC experimental community at Stony Point, NY.