Tucker’s Pottery Supplies is proud to present a 2 day demonstration workshop with Danny Meisinger. Danny will be sharing tips, tricks, and techniques for “Throwing Large”. While Danny does make human sized vessels, and will impress you with the things he can do, this workshop is applicable to all levels. The focus will be on “throwing larger than you do now”, covering all ways of joining thrown pieces, to adding coils, to understanding the effects of geometry, thickness, gravity, drying time, and using the correct tools for success.

This promises to be a fantastic weekend that will inform your abilities and inspire your creativity. As always, great food is included for the breaks.

Date: Saturday May 24 & Sunday May 25, 2025
Time: 9:30am - 4:30pm (both days)

Find more workshop details here: Danny Meisinger Workshop Details

Learn more about Danny:

"In the fall of 1989 I began making pots professionally. I learned very quickly how little I knew, and had no idea what to make or how to sell my work—I had never even been to an art fair.

Those first years were tough, but it was through those years that I found my greatest teachers: the clay itself, and the process. The relentless honesty of the clay always and still placidly demands no less than the absolute, while the process whispers in my ear, “slow down and you will get more accomplished.”

Once I started to listen to these teachers, things started to come together. When I left KU I could throw a three-foot tall pot, but I could not pull a decent handle on a mug. So I spent the first ten years focusing on mostly functional work, while still producing large pieces. I had two wheels at the time and one always had a big pot turning on it while I was cranking out small work. It felt good to see 100 mugs on a shelf all the same size and form—I began to see my forms evolve over time. During this period I picked up some wholesale accounts and started going to art fairs—both were another learning curve.

By the time I reached my early thirties, I was making some nice forms and I did well at the art fairs. I found that my small functional pieces sold well in the street, but the larger pieces did not. Of course, my work was evolving in the direction of the larger sculptural forms, so art fairs became a lot more work than fun. I built eleven different displays in a fifteen-year span, trying to present the work better as it grew in scale. Finally the hard work paid off. I was able to have some success and I felt as though I was achieving what I had set out to do. Ironically as all this was taking place, I was thinking of making a change in my work. " - Danny Meisinger