Coil-Building Pottery: Ancestral Technique
Joanna Underwood BlackburnChickasaw artist and potter Joanna Underwood Blackburn explains that she learned the ancestral technique of coil-building pottery in college. She also says that in the beginning, she used a trial and error method because very few teaching resources were available.
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