JWrightDesigns

Woodfire Pieces Summer 2008

Welcome to my gallery.  I hope you enjoy your visit as you view photos of my work. Enjoy your visit and please feel free to contact me regarding any of the pieces you see here.  I also conduct art workshops and play music.

Newest Projects:  Flutes!  I recently conducted a flute workshop out in Santa Fe, NM.  Here are some of the flutes I made and took out there with me to sell along the way. 

 Flutes all together on a stand

 Flutes in a bed of their own cedar chips

Up close of all the "birds"

Spring 2011 Work

I was exploring multi-cultural identity in art last spring.  I chose to display these outside so the art was more accessible to people walking by.  I called the work "Think Tank."





 Previous Work

 Summer 2010

Square Grounds -

NOTE: This work will be available at Riverside Gallery in Marietta, OH during the month of November 2011.

Square Grounds explores several facets of my roots and process of becoming an artist.   In the Native American tradition, the square ground is a sacred gathering place for community ceremony.  Generally, the grounds are specially prepared before each ceremony where a fire is lit in the middle and cared for throughout the entire ceremonial time.  Based on community standing and other details, people sit at specific areas set in the four directions.  These seating areas are called arbors.  The children and younger women sit in the east.  After achieving a rite of passage the young men then sit in the south arbor.  The mature women sit in the north arbor after their own rite of passage.  The elders sit in the west.  In my work, face jugs depict forces that have shaped and continue to shape the energy, ideas, power, and identity in my process of becoming an artist.  You can view these pieces in person at the Rice Gallery at McDaniel College from July 5 through July 15, 2010. 

Center Jug - Fire/Passion

 

 

 

Elder

Sculptural pieces available by commission; please send email for details. 

All functional pieces are dishwasher and microwave safe.  I only use food safe glazes.  The clay I use is stoneware so even when it is thrown thin it is quite durable.  The great thing about stoneware is that if you bring the heat up slowly you can cook in it.  We make chicken-pot-pies and apple dumplings in the handled bowls below.

Other Pieces of Interest

wood fired, wheel thrown, hand carved, summer 2008

Native American Handmade Wooden Flutes

Native American Flutes with a variety of "birds" - more simple designs also available.  Custom orders take about two months to complete.

Original Native Flute CD

Thanks for ordering my music, I am currently out of stock but will have more before the winter holidays. Send an email note if you are interested and I will send a note back when I get them.

 Pen and Ink over Water Color Wash

As a diversion to pottery I dabble in other mediums.