UPCOMING, CURRENT and RECENT
EVENTS, WORKSHOPS, ARTICLES,
ART SHOWS, ART EXHIBITIONS,
GALLERIES, and
How To Schedule a Workshop
My BOOK
"Glazes from a Potter's Perspective:
a Simple, Kitchen-Method Approach to
Understanding Glaze Development",
by Steve Loucks
with Contributing Editor, Lynnette Hesser.
For more information, see "Glaze Book" on the Menu bar above.
To order, call 256.452.8213 or 256.435.4105.
Check out thepotterscast.com/460
with Paul Blaise for a fun podcast about my wife, Lynnette Hesser's, & my approach to ceramics.
UPCOMING & CURRENT EVENTS
September 23 - November 4
"31st Strictly Functional Pottery National"
Sponsored by Lancaster Creative Factory: Kevin Lehman and Amy Burk
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
October 6-November 2, 2023
"Cup: The Intimate Object XIX"
Charlie Cummings Gallery
Gainesville, Florida
April 21-28, 2024
"Stack 'Em Up"
John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, North Carolina
Dive deep into structure, embellishment, and style. Make complex, multi-sectional vessels from simple, wheel-thrown parts. Learn to dart, stretch, alter, and embellish. Stack and assemble the sections to make pedestalled forms, vases, pitchers, and candlesticks. Enhance your pieces with carvings, sprigs, lids and/or handles, and glazes. Fire pieces you complete early in the week in the electric kiln while we continue to create more work. Be prepared to transport some unfired pieces.
To register, go to: Stack 'Em Up (configio.com)
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TO SCHEDULE A WORKSHOP, LECTURE, IMAGE PRESENTATION, OR DEMONSTRATION CALL:
256.435.4105 (h) or 256.499.2909 (c)
Call Steve and Lynnette anytime to arrange a studio visit or to purchase our work.
256.452.8213 (c)
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WHERE TO BUY MY WORK:
Click on "Store" in the Menu Bar above.
In Tandem Gallery, Bakersville, Alabama, online store, https://www.intandemgallery.com/steve-loucks
The Potters' Shed- our studio, 1092 Seven Springs Road, Wellington, Alabama
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RECENT EVENTS
2023
May 13-July 22, 2023
"2023 Juried Cup Show"
Hudgens Center for Art & Learning, Duluth, Georgia
June 4-11, 2023
"Serving with Finesse"
John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, North Carolina
Improve your throwing and handbuilding skills while making unique serving dishes for special foods -- shrimp cocktail, deviled eggs, and your own favorites. Learn how to enhance basic bowl forms by darting, stretching, and altering. Embellish them with carvings, sprigs, lids, and/or handles. Pieces finished in time will be glazed and fired to cone 6 in the electric kiln while we continue serving up more dishes!
January 28, 2023
"Free one-hour Demonstration" with the Alabama Craft Guild at the
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama
February 19-25, 2023
"Bowl-ing with Cone 6 Glazes"
John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, North Carolina
Dual hands-on and demonstration workshop with Lynnette Hesser,
making multiple styles of bowls to alter, assemble, carve, embellish,
glaze, and fire. Includes glazing demonstrations and discussions.
John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, North Carolina
2022
Southern Mississippi Ceramics National Exhibition
The Museum of Art at University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands
Craft Asheville, North Carolina
Alabama Designer Craftsmen Fall Show and Sale
Birmingham Botanical Gardens. Indoors. Birmingham, Alabama
12th Annual Workhouse International Clay Exhibition
Lorton, Virginia
June 5-12
"Bowl-ing with Cone 6 Glazes"
Dual hands-on and demonstration workshop with Lynnette Hesser,
making multiple styles of bowls to alter, assemble, carve, embellish,
glaze, and fire. Includes glazing demonstrations and discussions.
John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, North Carolina
February 12-16
Alabama Clay Conference Vendor
Columbiana, Alabama
2021
November 2021 issue
Ceramics Monthly Magazine Article, pages 54-57
"Ingredients' Roles"
Strictly Functional Pottery National
135 N. Lime Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
"Creative Spirit"
Exhibition with Lynnette Hesser, Troy Museum of Art, Troy, Alabama
"Drinking Vessels with Panache"
Dual hands-on and demonstration workshop with Lynnette Hesser,
John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, North Carolina
"Glaze Doctor Panelist"
NCECA, virtual.
2020
"Cup: The Intimate Object XVI", Charlie Cummings Gallery, charliecummingsgallery.com,
Gainesville, Florida
Co-juror with Lynnette Hesser for Workhouse Clay Invitational 2020 Exhibition
A Main Presenter at the Alabama Clay Conference along with mini-presentations on lids and on
glazing, Orange Beach, Alabama
Mini-workshop, Ceramics Department, Florida Atlantic Unversity, Boca Raton, Florida
"Stretching your Techniques", Dual demonstration workshop with Lynnette Hesser,
Ceramic League of Miami, Miami, Florida
"Creative Spirit", Exhibition with Lynnette Hesser, Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts,
Florence, Alabama
2019
Holiday Studio Sale, 1092 Seven Springs Road, Wellington, AL
Alabama Designer Craftsmen, Birmingham Botanical Gardens- Inside, Birmingham, AL
Artisanville, Greenville Convention Center, Greenville, SC
Southern Highland Craft Guild Fall Show, US Cellular Building, Asheville, NC
Featured Artist at In Tandem Gallery, Bakersville, NC
Creative Spirit, Exhibition with Lynnette Hesser, Lowe Mill Main Gallery, Huntsville, AL
Glaze Testing from a Potter's Perspective, one-week, hands-on glaze testing workshop, John C. Campbell Folk School,
Brasstown, NC
Serve with Finesse, one week, dual, hands-on and demonstration workshop with Lynnette Hesser, John C. Campbell Folk
School, Brasstown, NC
Serve with Finesse, two-day, dual, hands-on and demonstration workshop with Lynnette Hesser, Huntsville Museum of Art,
Huntsville, AL
NCECA Presentation: "Understanding a Glaze Recipe, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Program Guide, www.nceca.org
In the ICAN 2019 "Functional" Calendar, double combo server.
Creative Spirit, Exhibition with Lynnette Hesser, Lowe Mill Main Gallery, Huntsville, AL
Creative Spirit, Exhibition with Lynnette Hesser, Gadsden Museum of Art, Gadsden, AL
Monte Sano Art Show, Huntsville, AL
Alabama Clay Conference Mini-Presenter, "Get a Handle on It", Jacksonville, AL
Alabama Clay Market, Jacksonville, AL
2018
Holiday Studio Sale, Wellington, Alabama
Alabama Designer Craftsmen, Birmingham, Alabama
Carolina Designer Craftsmen Show, Raleigh, North Carolina
Southern Highland Craft Guild Fall Show, Asheville, North Carolina
Ceramics Monthly, Exposure Section, Online Show and sale of work at The Kiln Studio, Fairhope, Alabama. November issue.
Ceramics Monthly Article, pgs 94 & 95, on my glaze testing tile design and method. October issue.
"Serve with Finesse", two-day, demonstration/hands-on workshop at Natchez Pottery, Natchez, Mississippi
"Create Your Own Glaze", one-week, hands-on glaze testing workshop, Snow Farm, The New England Craft Program, Williamsburg, Massachusetts
Southern Highland Craft Guild Summer Show, Asheville, North Carolina
"Clay Day", Southern Highland Folk Arts Center, Asheville, North Carolina
"Fluidity and Geometrics", Focus Gallery Exhibition, Southern Highland Folk Arts Center, Asheville, North Carolina
"An Easy Way to Adjust Glazes", lecture at the Alabama Clay Conference, Montgomery, Alabama
"It's All What You Do with It", solo show at Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, Alabama
Alabama Designer Craftsmen Demonstration Day, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama
"Stretching Your Techniques", two-day workshop demonstration with Lynnette Hesser at Georgia Clay Council, Canton, Georgia
"Exhibition of Ceramic Artist WInners of the Alabama State Council on the Arts Crafts Fellowship", ASCA, Montgomery, Alabama
2017
Holiday Studio Sale, Wellington, Alabama
Alabama Designer Craftsmen Fall Show, Birmingham, AL
The Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands, Asheville, North Carolina, Fall
Bluff Park Art Show, Hoover, Alabama
Tennessee Fall Craft Fair, Nashville, Tennessee
Workhouse Brewfest Exhibition, Invitational, Lorton, Virginia
The Penland Auction, donated a piece, Penland, North Carolina
The Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands, Asheville, North Carolina, Summer
Lecture at NCECA "An Easy Way to Adjust Glazes", Portland, Oregon
American Craft Council Show: Marietta, Georgia
Alabama Clay Market, Birmingham, Alabama
2016
The Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands, Asheville, North Carolina, Summer
Tennessee Craft Fair, formerly TACA, Nashville, Tennessee
Instructor's Exhibition, Arrowmont School of Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Stretching Your Techniques, two-day workshop demonstration and one-month exhibition with Lynnette Hesser,
Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, Mississippi
Stretching Your Techniques, two-day workshop demonstration and one-month exhibition with Lynnette Hesser,
Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, Mississippi
To Set the Table, week-long workshop at John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, North Carolina
The Penland Auction, donated a piece, Penland, North Carolina
Stretching Your Techniques, week-long workshop at Arrowmont, Gatlinburg, Tennessee
The Bluff Park Art Show, Bluff Park, Hoover, Alabama
The Kentuck Art Festival, Northport, Alabama
The Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands, Fall Show, Asheville, North Carolina
Alabama Designer Craftsmen Show, Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Birmingham, Alabama
Holiday Open Studio and Sale with Lynnette Hesse
American Craft Council Show: Atlanta, Marietta, Georgia
Alabama Clay Market, Gadsden, Alabama
31st Alabama Clay Conference, Co-host with Lynnette Hesser, Gadsden, Alabama
2015
The Kentuck Art Festival, Northport, Alabama
The Bluff Park Art Show, Bluff Park, Hoover, Alabama
Stretching Your Techniques, two-day workshop demonstration with Lynnette Hesser, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, California
To Set the Table, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina
Stretching Your Techniques, Daven's Ceramic Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Tennessee Craft Fair, formerly TACA, Nashville, Tennessee
Demystifying Glazes, talk, image presentation and demonstration Daven's Ceramic Center, Atlanta, Georgia
2104
Demystifying Glazes, talk and image presentation, Warren Wilson College, Asheville, North Carolina
To Set The Table, one-week, hands-on workshop, co-taught with Lynnette Hesser, John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, North Carolina
Stretching Your Techniques, two-day workshop demonstration with Lynnette Hesser, Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, Virginia
