In the past the Fall China trips have had prominent ceramic artists attend with the students to help teach and offer sage like advice. This time it is one of West Virginia's own, Brian VanNostrand. He is here discovering China along with the rest of us with his wife Montie. The duo are learning everyday and seeing very different profiles of life than they are use to seeing in Webster Springs West Virginia. Brian is here to build a wood kiln of his design and work with the students to fire it. It is a great assignment and it is one that Brian is surely up to the challenge. You can see him here with Bob figure out the right bricks, throwing pots and laying out the kiln. It the close up photograph he is in a giant chimney stack of a huge egg shaped kiln. The other photos are of him and Monty with some big porcelain pot made down the street. Montie has been bringing him lunch everyday and going off on her own discovering the markets of Jingdezhen. Together they have been great to have and we are going to see more on the kiln building and firing later on.