This Holiday Season, Could You Help A Fellow Potter?

摘要

Lana Wilson: What was your life like before Katrina? Brian Nettles: I opened Nettles Studios in downtown Pass Christian in April, 1997. Pass Christian is 25 miles west of Biloxi, and 65 miles east of New Orleans. My downtown studio was one block off the Gulf of Mexico. I had a small pottery shop, a metal fabrication shop, and a showroom. Over the years, the business grew and I added more equipment and supplies. By the year 2000, we needed more space, so my wife and I purchased 27 acres of land on the Wolf River, four miles inland from the Gulf Coast. We camped out over the next year and hand-built our home. We then built a 700-square-foot pottery studio and a 2,200-square-foot kiln shed. We built a 36-cubic-foot gas-fired reduction kiln, a 12-cubic-foot soda kiln, and a 28-foot-long Japanese-style wood-fired anagama, the only kiln of its type in Mississippi.