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Ryan Durbin (@rdceramics) & Becca Otis (@5linespottery) share their experiences as potters, makers, small business owners, and creatives. Becca is a full time studio potter, while Ryan is a full time website developer and part time potter. We'd love to share our ups and downs along the way as we build our skills as makers and small business owners in an honest, informal manner. We hope to bring you helpful tips we've learned over the years, learn from each other, and share expertise from a number of guests with you also. Please join us for some Wheel Talk!
Wheel Talk
#318 - Amazing Glaze: Food-Safe Recipes with Gabriel Kline & Bill Collins
In this episode of Wheel Talk, we chat with potter Gabriel Kline, director of Odyssey Clayworks in Asheville, and chemist Bill Collins, Ph.D., co-authors of Amazing Glaze Food-Safe Recipes. They share how art and science come together to create vibrant, functional, and food-safe ceramics.
Whether you’re mixing your first glaze or expanding your library, this episode is full of insights to help you bring beauty and safety to your work.
Resources
Amazing Glaze Food-Safe Recipes: Innovative, Lab-Tested Techniques and Recipes by Gabriel Kline and Bill Collins, Ph.D. (Pre-order now for an October 2025 release)
Anya Bartels Porcelain
Book Recommendations
The Complete Potter's Companion by Tony Birks
Fundamentals of Inorganic Glasses by Arun K. Varshneya and John C. Mauro
Amazing Glaze Recipes and Combinations: 200+ Surefire Finishes for Low-Fire, Mid-Range, and High-Fire Pottery by Gabriel Kline (2021)
Amazing Glaze: Techniques, Recipes, Finishing, and Firing by Gabriel Kline (2017)
-----Find more about Gabriel and Bill below-----
@odysseyclayworks
Bill Collins, Ph.D.
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