Nancy Briggs has been on the faculty of the Des Moines Art Center since 1986 and currently teaches ceramics to children and adults. Her work has been exhibited in regional and national juried exhibitions including Iowa Artist Annual (1998, 1995, 1990) Iowa Exhibited, Art and Ethics (Sawtooth Center for the Arts, Winston-Salem NC) and Women’s Voices (Drake University).

Nancy uses the Raku firing technique to give her pottery and sculpture a mysterious, ancient quality. Her pottery is quickly heated to melt the glazes, and is then removed from the kiln when red hot and placed in beds of sawdust to smoke the wares. This gives the clay its black color, and the glazes their rich metallic look. Raku pottery is fragile and porous, so its main function is decorative.

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