CRYSTAL LAKE – A two-day pottery demonstration conference will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday in the Luecht Conference Center at McHenry County College, 8900 Route 14 in Crystal Lake.

Emily Reason, a full-time potter in her Marshall, N.C., studio, who exhibits her work and teaches throughout the country, will demonstrate how she creates wheel-thrown functional work using porcelain, carving techniques and a gas-reduction firing process.

She is the author of “Ceramics for Beginners: Wheel Throwing.”