Throughout April, the Brighton High School Art Department hosted visiting artist Christin Bentley who taught students two alternative pottery-firing processes. One was raku, an ancient Japanese technique, that produces metallic and crackle effects after the oxygen is reduced around the ceramic artwork.  The other was horsehair, a Native American technique, that creates a smooth white surface with dark lines formed when horsehair, feathers, or other items leave carbon marks on the surface. 

Mrs. Maley’s Ceramics II students participated in these firing processes with support from Bentley and Jason Ferguson, another local artist. Horsehair was donated from Elsewhere Farms.