Part of a continuing program: The ceramic surface is often an unknown entity, much like the blue plate special at your local diner. Sometimes developed in the clay it self, surface design and consideration can occur at several stages from wet to leather hard to bone dry. Other times the surface is applied after the form is established with slips and under glazes or eventually with glaze. Even the kiln and the firing process interjects itself upon the clay surface, leaving marks or transforming the surface in wonderful and mysterious ways.

To learn more about the ceramic surface attend the Southern Fried Ceramics Symposium at Francis Marion University in Florence, SC July 27-29th.