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Monday – Friday, August 1-5, 10am – 5pm Fee: $395 members; $415 non-members
 In this intensive 5 day hands on workshop experience, Deb will present functional vessels that are made using a variety of construction techniques. She will share how she forms ideas from drawing, patterns, her environment, and the process of making itself. She will demonstrate ways of working which exemplify the steps vital to her current body of work. The class will make and use coiled bisque molds and cut, shape and build with slabs. Simple thrown pieces will be altered and combined. Students will also design and cut out paper patterns to augment hand building. In the end, all these approaches will be utilized in making non-round, expressive shapes. While making, Deb will also discuss the way she thinks about surface and how it can change the way the form is perceived and what she intends it to communicate. This workshop will offer many different examples of building with clay what will enrich the skills of both the hand builder and the wheel thrower. |
Deborah Schwartzkopf is currently living in Seattle Washington, her childhood home, working at Pottery Northwest making pots and teaching. After completing a BA in Art from the University of Alaska Anchorage, she moved to San Diego, California for a year of independent study at San Diego State University. In the spring of 2005, she completed a MFA at the Pennsylvania State University and then traveled to China through an NCECA student show award. She stayed at Sanboa Ceramics Art Institute in Jingdezhen and traveled across the country to Western China. In 2005, she received the Lilian Fellowship to be a resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation . For the 2006-07 school year she was a part of the Ohio University Ceramics Program as a Visiting Assistant Professor. Schwartzkopf has exhibited her works widely across the United States and abroad.
Clay Art Centre
40 Beech Street,
Port Chester, NY 10573 |
Ph: 914-937-2047 |
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