Friend Willi Singleton is having a solo show at the Allentown Art Museum. Called Slow Clay: The Ceramic Art of Willi Singleton, the exhibition ends on April 12. I saw it yesterday. It's a good show but would have been better with more pieces in a bigger space.Slow clay refers to Willi's belief that "making pots is like cooking. You have to start with good ingredients to get a flavorful, satisfying result." Good ingredients means local ingredients. Willi gets his clays from Hawk Mountain (he lives at the foot of the famed raptor sanctuary there) and from the mouth of the Susquehanna River and makes his glazes from local creek clay and wood, corn stalk, and bamboo ash. He 'cooks' his pots in a wood-fired climbing kiln he built himself. This morning I got an email from Willi saying that he's now busy chopping wood for the May firing.
