Natchez Clay is a community studio located in Natchez, MS overlooking the Mississippi River. We offer workshops with clay artists from around the US, classes, private and shared studio space, private lessons, parties and Girlfriend Getaway weekends to play with clay. We have both wheel and hand building classes, kids classes and work with special needs kids.

Our terrific group of potters loves to have visitors to the studio to share and learn from each other.

We offer clay and tools for sale to area clay artists, but do not ship. We also have great clay-themed t-shirts for sale that we DO ship. Our community artists' work is displayed in our small gallery in our studio.

Natchez Clay also offers a Resident Artist position for ceramics program graduates. Visit our website to find out more about our Resident position and our great, spacious, fun studio.

Catalog - To the China Painter: We have a china painter on staff at all times. Our Artist, Kathy, is Mrs. Rynne's granddaughter. She can help you with your painting questions.

Precise color-matching and state-or-the-art printing process. Phylum delivers only the highest grade decals with the sharpest image for the decoration of glass products such as shot glasses, beverage bottles, glass decors and souvenirs and all kinds of glass dinnerware.

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Hand crafted pottery and ceramic art.

Firing resources by Orton - Ways to achieve successful decals during the firing.

List of U.S. galleries categorized by state that sell and exhibit Raku.

Excerpt: Recently, I developed a new, unique surface, which I call a “halo/opal” glaze. Wherever light strikes this reticulated surface, it seems to radiate from a point, creating a halo. Glaze expert, Robin Hopper, suggested that I was creating “simulated opal”, hence the name “halo/opal” was adopted. I found that I could duplicate this effect only if I raku fired the ware multiple times and at different temperatures.

Simple directions on how to do a Pit-Firing.

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Excerpt: Susan Rawcliffe is an explorer of primeval soundscapes. She is a master flute maker, player and researcher as well as a master didjeridu player. Her work evolves through a circular process of making acoustical copies of ancient and contemporary specimens, learning to play them, and investing new insights into the creation of more instruments to then learn to play. She delights in exotic and potent sounds, whether as a performer, a creator of musical instruments and sculptures or a researcher into ancient flutes and their music.

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