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Horse-powered pottery gallery

You might expect to see Doc and Dan – Warren Wilson College’s two Belgian draft horses – plowing a garden field for the next kale planting or dragging whole trees out of the college forest in a selective thinning, but you probably wouldn’t guess the most recent student collaboration with these incredibly strong horses: crafting delicate, decorative ceramic art.

Students in three ceramics courses this semester – Intro to Handbuilding, Intro to Ceramics, and Ceramics Studio – used hair gathered from Doc and Dan to learn the art of horsehair pottery.  Read more.

Finishing horsehair pottery
Decorating a horsehair pot
Leah Leitson making pottery
Decorating a pot with horsehair
Taking a pot out of the kiln
decorating a pot with horsehair
Finishing horsehair pottery
Finishing horsehair pottery
Art student decorating a pot
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