Emptied the last soda kiln of the season! It’s the best batch I’ve had so far!

Teeny tiny #sodafired bowls for trinkets.

This morning’s cup of tea. Swirled white and black clays turn to many shades if brown.

Do you know what causes the difference in the sound? #pottery

“Everything is on fire, but everyone I love is doing beautiful things and trying to make life worth living, and I know I don't have to believe in everything, but I believe in that." -Nikita Gill

Over the next few weeks, I have ceramic rattles shaped like pods coming out of several kilns. I used mocha diffusion and underglaze transfer to design these pieces. #ceramics #pottery #YQG

C19 Seminar: Indigenous Waterways
Submissions due Sept 15

www.c19society.org/2026-seminars

Soda fired cup. White slip poured over speckled clay, carved with flashing slip.

Just a little 10lb sgraffito bowl.

A soda-fired vase from the last kiln. Carved with a blue-green flashing slip.

My most recent pitcher. I am really happy with the shape and carving on this piece, but I don’t plan to keep using the speckled clay in the soda kiln. #sodafired #pottery

Interdisciplinary grant writing. The best advice I have for interdisciplinary scholars writing grants is to focus on describing what you are doing and why to your non-academic aunty who wants to care about you and your work, but really doesn’t get it.

The joy of the soda kiln. The more I look at this piece the more I like it. At first I was disappointed because most of this piece is very dark grey, but I love this side. It’s growing on me.

A month ago Ford City Potters had a party and threw 10lb wide bowls. Mine is finally bisqued. I made the mistake of getting attached and now I am nervous to glaze it. I’m thinking of using a pear green glaze that reacts with the black slip.

I get that if we are not teaching our students to use AI effectively, smartly, responsibly, they will use it in uncritical ways, but I also can't stomach the environmental cost of assigning AI exercises in classes - who else is thinking about how to balance these concerns in their teaching?

www.grad.ubc.ca/country/unit...

UBC Vancouver is opening applications for grad students negatively affected by US actions from April 14 to 18. An option for students seeking to complete or continue studies.

Thoughts on RDM (Research Data Management) and Indigenous Data Sovereignty? I see how they could be mutually supportive, but the move towards required RDM plans just feels like the creation of a norm in which all data is collected by the state, which didn't go so well in the past...

Yesterday, the U of Minnesota deleted the American Indian Studies’ statement on Palestine. (Also deleted was a story about Leonard Peltier’s return home and five other dept statements on Palestine.) Our expertise matters if we don’t oppose genocide. web.archive.org/web/20250322...

This week I am thinking A LOT about redistribution - when social services and supports are actively being dismantled, how do we best prepare to recreate community-based networks of support? How do we normalize redistributing wealth, when some have more than they need and others need far more?