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Local potter mentors next generation at Brattleboro Union High School

By Chris Mays, Brattleboro Reformer.

BRATTLEBORO — Drawing inspiration from local potter Stephen Proctor's innovative techniques, ceramics teacher Rachel Suplee introduced the concept of sectional throwing to her advanced ceramics class at Brattleboro Union High School. 

Is Your Garden Missing Something? You May Need a Large Pot (or Several).

New York Times Article. By Margaret Roach

An imposing work of pottery can be as important to the design of a landscape as any well-placed plant. And no, we’re not talking about flower pots.

 

Pottery Worthy of a Legacy | Stephen Procter | Episode 804

By Paul Blais, The Potters Cast.

For Stephen Procter a chance encounter with clay grew into a passion and a mid-life career change.  Formerly a classical guitarist, Stephen found that making gestures through sound and time offered many analogies to making gestures in clay and space.

Sculptural pots in the garden, with Stephen Procter

A Way to Garden Podcast

IT’S THAT TIME of year when we gardeners are shopping, shopping, shopping, often in hot pursuit of just the right plant that will make the design of a bed or the larger landscape hang together—that elusive missing ingredient. But what if the answer isn’t a plant sometimes, but a pot or a sculpture or some other non-living elements strategically placed?