Bowl

USA, 2014
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Method:
Thrown and Altered
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Glazes:
Glaze
Adero Willard
Adero Willard is known for creating earthenware vessels reflecting heridentity as a Black woman of African American, Native American, and European ancestry. Her work is primarily wheel thrown; however, she says, ?I alter forms on the wheel and sometimes add hand-built elements to introduce the dynamic of asymmetry and to evoke details from textiles, like a ruffle or a seam.? The surface decoration is created using wax resist, layering of color, and etching. A primary creative idea behind her decoration techniques is manipulating real or illusory depth through relationships between different textures, patterns, colors, and proportions. The process she uses to create the surface decoration on her pieces involves many steps. First, she applies a layer of black underglaze on a leather hard piece. She leaves the clay body exposed in specific places based on her sketch. Once the underglaze is dry to the touch, she introduces the first layer of wax-resist. When the wax is dry, the entire surface is covered in white underglaze, the wax prevents the white from covering the black layer.
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