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Chad Corbin
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A Study in Imperfection
Boulder, CO
2025 Starworks Summer AIR
Instructor at Groundworks Art Lab
I love a long, hot woodfire...and teabowls
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Mino style bowl using 100% unprocessed Cameron clay from North Carolina, and a simple shino-like glaze. Woodfired @starworksnc.bsky.social

#sado #chanoyu #茶碗 #茶の湯 #茶道 #woodfired pottery #woodfiredceramics #noborigamafired #shino #shinoglaze
July 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Test piece from the last woodfire. On display at "The Dark Show" July 19 - August 23.

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Firing a piece 10x its size in two weeks. Time at Starworks is passing fast.

#ceramicart #ceramicsculpture #void #emptiness #thespacebetween #woodfiredceramics #starworksnc
July 14, 2025 at 11:23 AM
For your consideration. Three of these will be submitted to the Kansas City Clay Guild Teabowl National. Help me select the three.

#teabowl #chawan #teaceremony #tbn2025 #teabowlnational2025 #茶碗 #茶の湯
May 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Raku-style bowl. "Dark Side of the Moon". Lots of mixed feelings about this one.

#tea #teaceremony #chawan #matchawan #rakuchawan #raku #sadō #chanoyu #楽 #茶碗 #茶の湯
April 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Teabowl. Black clay with wood ash nuka. Hand formed thick and carved. Thinking about which bowls I want to submit to the KC Clay Guild Teabowl National and this style seems right as it feels like my own. Interested in your thoughts.

#tea #matcha #teabowl #chawan #茶碗 #teaceremony #chanoyu #茶の湯
March 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I taught a Raku-style teabowl workshop these last two weekends. The result of a lot of clay testing, glaze formulation and learning the best way to fire our kiln. Much to my relief, the work paid off and each of the students' bowls came out great.

#raku #kuroraku #rakujawan #chawan #teaceremony #茶碗
March 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Kurinuki demo piece for my intermediate handbuilding class. If it resembles Satake or Matsuzaki, you wouldn't be wrong; I took some workshops with them. Fun glaze combo gives something Oribe-ish. More rabbit holes to explore.

#kurinuki #handbuiltpottery #abstract #sculpture #pottersofbluesky
February 27, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Intermission. I've been taking Ikenobo classes, so of course I made a container.

#ikenobo #ikebana #shoka #flowerarranging #pottersofbluesky
February 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Bowl-like-thing. Black clay thrown thick and carved. Tenmoku liner. Wood-salt fired. Looks like a chunk of basalt.

Struggling to call this a teabowl because it would shred a chakin in a nanosecond, but as a sculptural piece, it works well.

#tea #teabowl #chawan #chanoyu #sadō #teaceremony #茶碗 #茶の湯
February 22, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Simple hand-formed teabowl with a shino-Iike glaze oversaturated with iron and bone ash. Iron is amazing for its range of colors and effects.

#tea #teabowl #chawan #chanoyu #sadō #茶碗
February 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Another textured teabowl. Same body, glaze and firing as the previous, but different location in the kiln. Instead of imparting a glossy sheen, the salt flashes the pot in a salmon pink.

#tea #teabowl #chawan #teaceremony #woodfiredpottery #pottersofbluesky
February 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Woodfired tenmoku-style bowl. At the time, I thought this a decent facsimile of the originals, but now it feels a bit heavy handed. That rim is so darn hard to get right.

#tea #teabowl #chawan #tenmoku #teaceremony #woodfired #pottersofbluesky
February 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Dojimari-gata (waist type) teabowl. Woodfired porcelaneous stoneware with an unglazed exterior. Beautiful range of colors from the wood ash and flame shadows.

#teabowl #chawan well beyond #20pots #teaceremony #woodfiredpottery
February 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Slip-textured and woodfired teabowl with crawling shino interior. See ALT text for more info!

#chawan #teabowl #teaceremony #chanoyu #sadō #woodfired #woodfiredpottery #pottersofbluesky
February 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Mino style teabowl, Shino type. Thrown thick, then shaved. Same glaze inside and out, but with different applications.

#chadō #茶道 #chanoyu #茶の湯 #matchawan #chawan #teabowl #茶碗 #shinoglaze #pottersofbluesky #februarty
February 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
An older aka-shino style bowl. Hand-formed sandy stoneware.

Richly textured glaze with yuzuhada (citrus skin) and suana (nest holes) created by course sand.

#teabowl #chawan #teaceremony #chanoyu #sado #yuzuhada #suana
February 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Hand-formed teabowl with iron saturate glaze. Wood fired in the Groundworks Art Lab anagama in 2022. A bit quieter than most. This one remains one of my favorites.

#tea #teabowl #chawan #茶碗 #teaceremony #sadō #茶道 #chanoyu #茶の湯 #woodfiredpottery #pottersofbluesky
February 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
In keeping with the textural theme: hand formed and carved teabowl with iron saturate liner. This one found a life partner in the anagama, now separated and bearing the scars of loss. (I'm feeling emo today.)

#tea #teabowl #chawan #teaceremony #chanoyu #sadō #woodfiredpottery #pottersofbluesky
February 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Something a little different. Porcelaneous stoneware teabowl thrown thick and carved. Celadon liner. Wood-salt fired.

#teabowl #chawan #teaceremony #pottery #ceramics #pottersofbluesky #woodfiredpottery
February 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Hand-formed teabowl with slip texture and shino-like glaze. Wood+salt fired in the Groundworks Art Lab Bourry Box.

This one went to the KC Clay Guild Teabowl National last year.

#teabowl #teaceremony #chanoyu #sadō #chawan
February 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Kuroraku-style bowl. Fired to 1100C, removed hot, and water quenched. Basalt glaze.

The body remains light and insulating. Quenching the bowl results in the desired "thuck" when tapped with a tea scoop.

#chawan #kuroraku #teabowl #chanoyu #teaceremony #sadō #pottersofbluesky #茶碗 #茶道 #茶の湯
February 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Hand-formed teabowl with slip texture and shino-like glaze. Woodfired in the Groundworks Art Lab anagama. Wishing I still had this one, but happy knowing it's being loved by its new owner.

#teabowl #teaceremony #chanoyu #sadō #chawan
February 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Tanka-fired (in a sagar with charcoal) teabowl with shino-like glaze. Hand formed from iron bearing stoneware amended with fine sand. Unintentionally similar to Hon'ami Kōetsu's Fujisan.

#teabowl #chawan #chanoyu #茶碗
February 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Hand-formed teabowl with shino-like glaze. Woodfired in the Groundworks Art Lab anagama a few years ago.

#teabowl #chawan #茶碗 #chanoyu #茶の湯 #sadō #茶道 #pottersofbluesky
February 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Chōsen-Garatsu style bowl with iron saturate and white ash glazes. Wood-salt fired in the now defunct Groundworks Art Lab Bourry Box.

I'm dying inside without access to a wood kiln. I'm dying inside due to current events also, but pottery helps.

#teabowl #chawan #chosengaratsu #woodfiredceramics
February 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM