Creating Unique Texture and Precision Glazing
with Lori Phillips
March 24th & 31st, 2023 | 12:00 – 2:00 pm ET
Tuition: $145
- Live two Session Workshop Access with Q&A
- 45 Days Access to Workshop Recording
This is a two-part workshop. In part one, we’ll be exploring both traditional and unconventional ways of creating texture on clay, and how you can pair these techniques together to create pieces unique to your work. I’ll be demonstrating a number of methods both on individual tiles, as well as on my own work, from stamping, sprigging, and carving, to additive techniques, and pairing these all together to create something completely new.
In part two, I’ll be demonstrating how I glaze my highly textured and detailed work in a very precise manner, without the use of wax resist, to “stay inside the lines” so-to-speak. Going over the best kinds of brushes to use will also be a part of this discussion, as well as a few safety precautions.
By the end of these two days, you should be full of ideas and inspiration, ready to approach your work with some new perspective.
Details:
- participants must have the ZOOM video platform downloaded on a computer or phone to participate
- Click Here for Suggested Materials List
- students will receive access to the recorded demonstrations for up to 30 days.
I’m originally from Cincinnati Ohio, and moved to a very small town in south-central Kentucky with my mom at the
age of 12. I was extremely fortunate that my high school had a decent art department, and I touched clay for the first time in 1999 when I was 15 years old. It stayed with me ever since, and I completed my BFA from Eastern Kentucky University in 2008. I moved from KY to Dallas TX in 2011 to work on my MFA at the University of Dallas, and right after graduating moved to Phoenix AZ, where I’ve resided since 2014. Since Oct. 2016, I’ve worked from a home studio owned by a friend and fellow potter, and rented a small apartment from her right above the studio. I live there with my partner Liam, who moved here in October 2019 from Connecticut. I quit my day job with MAC Cosmetics in October 2018, and have been a full-time, self-employed potter ever since.
Pinch, Pour: Exploration of the Handmade Teapot
with Candice Methe
April 6th, 2023 | 3:00 – 5:30 pm ET
Tuition: $110
- Live Workshop Access with Q&A
- 45 Days Access to Workshop Recording
Teapots can be the most challenging and rewarding object to make with clay. It’s a form with endless possibilities and elements of expression. In this class, I will be demonstrating how I build my teapots by hand using the coil/ pinch method of making as well as templates. I will discuss the mechanics of the pouring vessel, the ergonomics of the form, the relationships of aesthetics, and how it all comes together. We will look at pieces from history as well as contemporary artists that create the teapot for its function as well as sculptural qualities.
Details:
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- participants must have the ZOOM video platform downloaded on a computer or phone to participate
Candice Methe is a studio artist and educator who has been working in clay for twenty-five years. Currently, she is a long-term resident at Roswell Artist in Resident Foundation, where she is working towards her first solo exhibition. She has completed residencies at Santa Fe Clay, Red Lodge Clay Center, and most recently a long-term residency at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts. She received her BFA from Northern Arizona University, AZ., and her MFA from the University of Minnesota.
Coiled-Up Figurative Building Techniques
with Kelsey Bowen
April 8th, 2023 | 1:00 – 3:30 pm ET
Tuition: $110
- Live Workshop Access with Q&A
- 45 Days Access to Workshop Recording
This demonstration will focus on various figurative building techniques beginning with the hollow-build method of coiling a form. I will go over how to begin the basic foundations of a figure and then show some of the ways to bend and alter a figurative form to create gestures. This workshop is open to all experience levels and will have something for everyone, from the construction of an arm to the folding of clay fabric.
Details:
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- participants must have the ZOOM video platform downloaded on a computer or phone to participate
Kelsey Bowen grew up in the rural California foothills, spending summers making up stories and picking thistles from her socks. Her figurative sculptures serve as vessels for her self-reflection and storytelling in clay. She received her BFA in Ceramics from the California College of the Arts, going on to continue creating work as a Long-term artist in residence at the Red Lodge Clay Center in Montana. Kelsey is currently working as a professional artist and part-time educator in Montana.
Clean Sgraffito Carving
with Beth Elliott
April 14th, 2023 | 2:00 – 4:30 pm ET
Tuition: $110
- Live Workshop Access with Q&A
- 45 Days Access to Workshop Recording
In this workshop I will demonstrate how I prep my work, apply underglaze, transfer a design, and carve clean, precise lines to create Sgraffito pottery. I’ll discuss what I do start-to-finish and share with you all my tips and tricks. Students can optionally bring a greenware piece or tile to practice mark-making during the workshop.
Details:
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- participants must have the ZOOM video platform downloaded on a computer or phone to participate
Hi my name is Beth and I create ceramic artwork mainly thrown in porcelain. All work is created from my original illustrations carved directly in the clay using the sgraffito technique. Creating new work and bringing my ideas to life is my passion. My BFA and background as an illustrator and fine artist working in metal and glass inform my ceramics. Patterns and textures in nature as well as patterns and textures in historical arts and crafts from around the world influence my work.
On the Surface
with Erin Furimsky
April 15th, 2023 | 12:00 – 2:30 pm ET
Tuition: $110
- Live Workshop Access with Q&A
- 45 Days Access to Workshop Recording
If you are ready for patterns, images, and color blocking on your ceramic surface work this workshop is for you. Here you will develop rich layered results with a low-tech approach. I will pack this workshop with information about inlay, paper stencils, trailing, wax resists, and hand painting with underglazes onto leatherhead clay. The methods transfer successfully to pottery, sculpture, and all clay bodies. Simplified ceramic forms will serve as your canvases. Open to all skill levels.
Details:
- Click Here for Suggested Materials List
- participants must have the ZOOM video platform downloaded on a computer or phone to participate
Erin Furimsky is a studio artist and educator in Bloomington, Illinois. She received an MFA from The Ohio State University. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally and stars in a streaming video called Layered Surfaces with Erin Furimsky. She has received various awards and has participated in multiple artist residencies. As an educator, Furimsky has been a featured presenter at national workshops, as well as serving as a visiting professor for over twenty years.
Textural Imagery on the Ceramic Surface
with Cathy Franzi
April 21st, 2023 | 5:30 – 8:00 pm ET
Tuition: $110
- Live Workshop Access with Q&A
- 45 Days Access to Workshop Recording
Learn to ‘draw’ onto the clay surface using textural imagery techniques including sgraffito, carving, impressing, incising, slip and ink inlay, stencils, and water erosion relief. In this short course, you will be introduced to each technique by practicing on slab tiles and exploring mark-making using various approaches to composition.
Details:
- participants must have the ZOOM video platform downloaded on a computer or phone to participate
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- students will receive access to the recorded demonstrations for up to 30 days.
Cathy Franzi is an Australian artist based in Canberra. She holds an MVA and was awarded a Ph.D. in practice-led research (Ceramics) from the Australian National University in 2015, where she currently is a lecturer. Through her studio practice, she is engaged with ideas of nature and the environment. Her interdisciplinary approach is informed by a first degree in Science, which has led to numerous science-art projects. She exhibits in Australia and internationally.
Nature’s Pallet: Creating with Color and Texture
with Cj Jilek
April 23rd, 2023 | 12:00 – 2:30 pm ET
Tuition: $110
- Live Workshop Access with Q&A
- 45 Days Access to Workshop Recording
By integrating color and texture we will create vibrant surfaces inspired by nature. Planning for color during the building stage of the work allows for a surface with depth. Using various techniques to create opacity, blending, highlighting, and detailing we will create interest in our textural surfaces. This will be accomplished with basic tools, brushes, slip trailers, resist products, and underglazes. These techniques may be used for vessels or sculptures and by artists of all skill levels.
Details:
- participants must have the ZOOM video platform downloaded on a computer or phone to participate
- Click Here for Suggested Materials List
- students will receive access to the recorded demonstrations for up to 30 days.
Cj Jilek, a studio artist and educator with an extensive exhibition record, has worked in the ceramics field for over 25 years. A faculty member at CSUSB, Mt Sac, and Chaffey colleges in CA, she holds an MFA from Utah State. Cj has taught workshops in Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, and throughout the U.S. Her ceramics journey includes wood fire utilitarian wares to mid-range biomorphic sculpture. The natural environment inspires Cj and informs her animated sculptures and signature surfaces.
Hollow Forms: Handles and More
with Taylor Whyte
April 28th, 2023 | 4:00 – 6:30 pm ET
Tuition: $110
- Live Workshop Access with Q&A
- 45 Days Access to Workshop Recording
In this workshop you will learn how to make hollow forms from soft slabs to utilize as handles and attachments. You will be taken through how to design and make your own drape molds using foam board. As well as ways to use upholstery foam to make free-form one-off shapes. Taylor will go over how she attaches forms together and properly vents the trapped air to leave the surfaces smooth. Learn the basics of using hollow forms in order to make your ideas come to life!
Details:
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- participants must have the ZOOM video platform downloaded on a computer or phone to participate
Taylor Whyte was born in Upstate New York near the Adirondack Mountains. She currently lives in Chicago, IL where she is in her second year as an Artist in Residence at Lillstreet Art Center. Before earning her MFA in Ceramics from Ball State University, Taylor received a BFA in Ceramics and Printmaking as well as a BA/BS in Psychology during her time as an undergraduate. With that she blends her background in psychology into her current body of work, calling for more empathy in our world today.
Illustrative Mugs
with Amanda Fangue
May 5th, 2023 | 11:00 – 1:30 pm ET
Tuition: $110
- Live Workshop Access with Q&A
- 45 Days Access to Workshop Recording
This art workshop will teach participants how to bring characters to life using form modification, underglaze, and transfer techniques. Participants will learn to manipulate wheel thrown forms with hollow and solid attachments and explore how to transfer 2D designs to 3D surfaces.
Topics such as applying underglaze, using liquid latex, stencils, and mixing and modifying color pallets will be covered. At the end of the workshop, participants will have gained a better understanding of the creative process and have the knowledge to bring their illustration to life!
Details:
- participants must have the ZOOM video platform downloaded on a computer or phone to participate
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- students will receive access to the recorded demonstrations for up to 30 days.
I am a mother of 3 beautiful girls, a veteran, and a military spouse. My characters reflect my moods and frazzled realities of my crazy life. Fun, bright, whimsical, are just a few descriptors I would apply to my work, and its intention is to inspire and or spark joy. I like to combine my silly illustrations, modern patterns, and classical chintz in a surprising mash up that delights and intrigues the viewer and user.
Hollow Building At Any Scale
with Andrea Keys Connell
May 6th, 2023 | 12:00 – 2:30 pm ET
Tuition: $110
- Live Workshop Access with Q&A
- 45 Days Access to Workshop Recording
In this workshop, I will demonstrate my hollow building techniques- techniques that will allow you to build at any scale. We will cover building strategies, sculptural clay bodies, building in sections, and firing methods.
Students will walk away with the confidence to tackle projects ranging in scale from figurine to monument. They will have a better understanding of how to fire large scale work, and how to find a clay body that works with you, not against you.
Details:
- participants must have the ZOOM video platform downloaded on a computer or phone to participate
- Click Here for Suggested Materials List
- students will receive access to the recorded demonstrations for up to 30 days.
Andréa Keys Connell is an Associate Professor of Ceramics in the Department of Art at Appalachian State University. Her work has been featured in a number of national and international publications and she has widely exhibited her work. Andréa also works on large-scale public art commissions. She has taught workshops on figure sculpting at various craft schools across the country including Haystack, Arrowmont, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.
Printing onto clay using Photo-Lithography
with Eylene Clifford
May 12th, 2023 | 12:00 – 2:00 pm ET
Tuition: $95
- Live Workshop Access with Q&A
- 45 Days Access to Workshop Recording
What I will cover in this workshop:
- A short intro on how to edit photos so that you will get the best results when printing. For this, I will be using my phone to edit the photos but you will be able to use any photo editing software on your smartphone or computer. The editing is very basic so no need for any elaborate photo editing software or apps.
- How to print your images onto paper or pronto plates
- The process of photo-lithography on clay includes: • Mixing the ink • The printing onto clay process • Printing onto colored slips or underglazes • Layering multiple prints
Details:
- participants must have the ZOOM video platform downloaded on a computer or phone to participate
- Click Here for Suggested Materials List
- students will receive access to the recorded demonstrations for up to 30 days.
Eylene is a ceramic artist working from her studio near Pretoria, South Africa. She started pursuing a career in ceramics in 2013. Her work is greatly inspired by nature and the beauty of everyday living which can be seen in the sensitive drawings on her vessels. She loves the slow process of hand-building, all her pieces are coiled or built using slabs. In between making Eylene teaches at a Ceramic School in Johannesburg and enjoys experimenting with new surface decorating techniques.
Marbling Techniques with Colored Porcelain
with Chris Alveshere
May 19th, 2023 | 4:00 – 6:30 pm ET
Tuition: $110
- Live Workshop Access with Q&A
- 45 Days Access to Workshop Recording
This workshop/demo is focused on constructing forms for the countertop with colored clay. We will learn different methods for creating colored clay and how to use a variety of marbling techniques. There will be an emphasis placed on hand building techniques including slab, pinch, and press mold construction, along with the use of wheel-thrown and trimmed attachments to create a salt cellar and a produce display piece. These techniques can be applied to both functional and sculptural forms.
Details:
- participants must have the ZOOM video platform downloaded on a computer or phone to participate
- Click Here for Suggested Materials List
- students will receive access to the recorded demonstrations for up to 30 days.
Chris Alveshere recently completed a long-term residency at The Clay Studio of Missoula, and continues to maintain a full-time studio practice in Missoula, MT. He currently teaches art education and ceramics at the University of Montana, in addition to adult and youth community education classes. Originally from North Dakota, Chris received undergraduate degrees in ceramics and art education from Minnesota State University in Moorhead, MN and his MFA in ceramics from Alfred University.
Form and Texture: Sculpting Birds
with Darla Jackson
May 19th, 2023 | 11:00 – 1:30 pm ET
Tuition: $110
- Live Workshop Access with Q&A
- 45 Days Access to Workshop Recording
This class will begin with a review of how birds have been used in Art throughout history. We will then move on to creating birds using a solid building method. I will focus on how to begin with a simplified form and move into more complicated secondary forms. Lastly we will focus on creating multiple layers of texture. This workshop is open to all levels no matter your previous experience.
Details:
- participants must have the ZOOM video platform downloaded on a computer or phone to participate
- Click Here for Suggested Materials List
- students will receive access to the recorded demonstrations for up to 30 days.
Darla Jackson received a BFA in Sculpture from Moore College of Art in 2003. In 2011 and 2013 she received John S. and James L. Knight Arts Challenge Grants to found the Philadelphia Sculpture Gym.
Her work is shown in galleries and museums such as the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Woodmere Art Museum, and the Norman Rockwell Museum. She has lectured about her work at The Barnes Foundation
Jackson teaches at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Hand Building with Textured Slabs
with Marissa Childers
May 20th, 2023 | 12:00 – 2:30 pm ET
Tuition: $110
- Live Workshop Access with Q&A
- 45 Days Access to Workshop Recording
Let’s slab build with texture! In this course, you will learn how to add textures to slab-built forms. I will talk about my process of creating textures from various textiles and demonstrate how to build three-dimensional forms from templates. As the clay takes on a fabric-like appearance, each piece is left with a unique surface that emanates a sense of comfort. This workshop is open to all experience levels and will have something to offer to everyone!
Details:
- participants must have the ZOOM video platform downloaded on a computer or phone to participate
- Click Here for Suggested Materials List
- students will receive access to the recorded demonstrations for up to 30 days.
Marissa Childers was born and raised in Florence, AL. She earned her BFA from the University of North Alabama and her MFA from the University of Oklahoma. She was an NCECA graduate fellowship recipient in 2020 and was chosen as one of Ceramics Monthly’s Emerging Artists of 2022. Marissa’s work explores moments of connection while celebrating femininity and craft found within domestic spaces. Various textures and patterns are used to evoke a sense of joy and nostalgic comfort.
Thrown and Combined forms
with Seth Green
May 25th, 2023 | 12:00 – 2:30 pm ET
Tuition: $110
- Live Workshop Access with Q&A
- 45 Days Access to Workshop Recording
Take your vessels to the next level during this workshop by learning how to throw and combine multiple forms. Bring complex forms to fruition and expand your abilities to create vessels that you previously thought were impossible. This workshop will include wheel-throwing and assembly demonstrations as well as exploring decorating and embellishing techniques. Participants will also learn about the instructor’s influences and experiences through a brief image presentation.
Details:
- participants must have the ZOOM video platform downloaded on a computer or phone to participate
- Click Here for Suggested Materials List
- students will receive access to the recorded demonstrations for up to 30 days.
Seth Green is an Associate Professor of Ceramics at Purdue University Fort Wayne. He holds an MFA in Ceramics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and has been a resident at the Archie Bray Foundation. He actively exhibits his award-winning work nationally/internationally and has published articles and imagery in Ceramics Monthly.
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Cost: $12