Former Keynote/PresenterI am a MA- student from the University of Southeast Norway, campus Notodden. My MA research is focused on pedagogic practices in woodfiring and how knowledge is shared and learnt in the woodfiring community. I will absolutely talk about the results of my MA when I come to the greatest conference ever! New England woodfiring 2023! While doing my Master studies, I have been working as an art educator in a middle school. I am a part of the woodfiring community in Larvik, Norway. For the past seven years I have fired the Northern hemispheres’ largest anagama, “Kjærrahvalen”. The anagama stands as a functional sculpture in Kjærra Fossepark, in Larvik Norway. Once a year we fill the anagama with more than a thousand objects. Firing it up to cone twelve or thirteen with about forty cubic meters of firewood. This woodfiring has been the engine to my creative work since I graduated from “Clay, Art and Design1” at Notodden in 2017. I get inspired by the woodfiring community, the flames, and the learning experiences I get through the social interactions between the artists in the woodfiring community which I am a part of. My pieces are all woodfired together with other artists. I see the process of firing a kiln as a learning experience. The kiln craves attention and communication between itself and the ones that fires it. It needs all our attention to create objects with the qualities that we hope to achieve. When firing my work with other artists pots and sculptures, my vessels capture the shadows of the other pots, flashing from other artists firing techniques, and colors glazes and engobes leaving a trace of the other artists. And thereof enhances my way of working in a social creative community of artists on to my vessels. I love woodfiring! See you all in a few months =)