Bob McIlhattan teaches pottery through Mt. Hood Community College continuing education. Although he's been making pots since the early 80s, "retiring" from system administration has allowed him to devote more energy and enthusiasm to pottery and kiln building.

For the last few years Bob and his friend Ron Linn have been building and learning to fire bourry box wood fired kilns. It has been an odyssey, complete with triumphs and tragedy. Now with a number of firings under their belts they have two working wood fired kilns, a small Soda kiln and a larger train kiln.

We made a DVD, buy it!

Bob will have a booth in the OPA Ceramics Showcase this year!
Apr. 24, 25 & 26 at the the Convention Center.
Stop in and say Hi, Bob will be in booth B-4.
Bob will be in the Columbia Gorge Art Festival
May 16 & 17, 10am-5pm,
At the Corbett Grade School.
If you can't wait, you can come by and visit the Studio. Call 503.661.2288 for an appointment.
Bob had pieces in the gallery at "Painting with Fire: Wood Fired Ceramics", the exhibit at this year's Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts!
In April 2008 Bob attended the Sturt WoodFire 2008 conference in Australia he participated in a pre-conference workshop on Oribe firing with Yasuo Terada.
11/16/07
The Gresham Outlook has run a story about Bob and Ron!