ALTERED POTS WITH SEQUIOA MILLER
Saturday/Sunday, April 17 & 18, 2010 | 10:00 am – 4:30 pm
Fee: $190 non-members, $180 LAC members Join us as we welcome Sequoia Miller to the Lee Arts Center to conduct a fast-paced workshop that will show how he makes many of his signature wheel-thrown and altered pottery forms. Sequoia will make four-footed bowls, altered vases, lids for jars taken off-round, and complex assembled pouring forms like teapots and pitchers. Sequoia will also show approaches to glazing and decorative surfaces that can enhance and redefine forms, as well as discuss ideas for keeping studio work dynamic and lively so that each pot is a continued exploration. A slide lecture will complement the studio demonstrations. Sequoia Miller was raised in Maine and New York City, and is now a studio potter based in Olympia, WA. He holds a BA from Brandeis University in Russian History and Art History. His pottery has been featured in numerous publications including Craft in America, Ceramics Monthly, The Studio Potter, Clay Times and the cover of Clay Times. Sequoia teaches occasionally at a local community college and at craft centers nationally, including Arrowmont School of Craft, Penland School of Craft, and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. Sequoia’s work is featured frequently in craft stores, galleries and kitchen cabinets around the country. He will be showing his work at the Smithsonian Craft show this April 2010 in Washington, DC.
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INTRODUCTION TO PRECIOUS METAL CLAYS: BRONZE CLAY WITH ALFREDO RATINOFF
Thursdays, May 13 & 20, 2010; 6:30 – 9:30pm
Fee: $ 95.00 non-members, $ 85.00 LAC members
Bronze has been used since ancient times in all different cultures to create everyday objects as well as fine artwork; this wonderful and almost ever lasting material was discovered thousands of years ago and used in almost every culture since early times to present day. Artists and sculptors used bronze because of it’s timeless beauty, but it often required a complicated process to fabricate a finished piece. Recently a new material called ‘Bronze clay’ was introduced to the market; it consists of fine bronze particles held together with an organic binder and after firing in a kiln becomes solid bronze.
Learn about this new material as Alfredo Ratinoff discusses the technical aspects of bronze clay; how to work with it, firing techniques and metal finishing like polishing, burnishing and coloring with acid patinas and paint. Participants will create a small piece with bronze clay; discuss concepts of design and learn a variety of techniques to create visual texture and interest. This is a great class for clay artists, potters, jewelers or anyone interested in exploring a new type of clay that can be used as an alternative media by itself or as an additional element to enhance once fired clay, plaster or any other art medium.
Alfredo Ratinoff was born in Buenos Aries, Argentina. He studied at the National School of Ceramics in Buenos Aires, and then in Madrid, Barcelona and Florence. He specializes in large scale ceramic mural installations and recently has expanded into other art mediums as in printmaking and precious metal clay. His work has been shown both nationally and abroad and he has done numerous commissions for both private and corporate collections. Alfredo is currently an artist-in-residence in the ceramics studio at the Lee Arts Center.
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