How do they match: Potters, Manufacturing

  • Press Operator
  • Artist
  • Ceramic Artist
  • Jigger Artisan

  • Prepare work for sale or exhibition, and maintain relationships with retail, pottery, art, and resource networks that can facilitate sale or exhibition of work.
  • Press thumbs into centers of revolving clay to form hollows, and press on the inside and outside of emerging clay cylinders with hands and fingers, gradually raising and shaping clay to desired forms and sizes.
  • Adjust pressures, temperatures, and trimming tool settings as required.
  • Pull wires through bases of articles and wheels to separate finished pieces.

  • Construct distinctive physical objects for artistic, functional, or commercial purposes.
  • Develop artistic or design concepts for decoration, exhibition, or commercial purposes.