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Lori K. Watts
Fine Mess Pottery and Clayworks
www.finemesspottery.com
Charlie Cummings will lead this three-day, hands-on workshop breaking
down the boundaries between photography, digital image manipulation,
printmaking, and clay. Charlie will expanding participant’s creative
horizon to create artworks that utilize techniques and ideas from all
these mediums.
While computers and clay may seem worlds apart, Charlie will discuss how
advances in digital software and home printer technology have made
computers an important bridge between clay and image-based art forms.
Participants in this workshop will learn to use Photoshop to create
digital collages, prepare images (photographs, drawings, paintings, or
digital) for screen printing, and to fine tune the images to get the
best possible results from the print processes used to transfer the
images to ceramic objects.
Charlie will teach how to print your photographs in full color using
common underglazes and stains. He has developed a method which avoids
the use of expensive decals, fragile photographic materials or
monochrome ceramic images.
This class will cover image manipulation and cutting-edge ceramic
techniques in a way that is accessible to all levels. Participants will
learn techniques that can be used on wet clay, leather hard clay, bone
dry clay, bisque, and glaze-fired work. Charlie will teach image
transfer techniques for every step in the ceramic process, including
photo emulsion-based screen printing to print slip and underglaze for
transfer to pots and handbuilt forms, single and multiple color
overglaze decals, and full color photographic transfers.
Participants should bring a laptop with Photoshop if possible, as well
as digital images, graphics and photographs to print. Please bring a
wide collection of images you own, or that are copyright free. Email Charlie if you have questions about what type of images to bring.
All levels are welcome, but basic knowledge of Photoshop and clay is suggested. Class size 16.
Full details here: http://www.mudfire.com/charlie-cummings-workshop-20130503.htm
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March 8 – April 20, 2013
Peter
Christian Johnson and Todd Volz will share Santa Fe Clay’s gallery this spring. Both employ the skills of an engineer or an inventor, as much as those of a traditional artist. Their industrial architectural artwork makes a complementary pairing.
Peter
Christian Johnson’s work “is meant to straddle the present, simultaneously looking back to the past and toward the future. It catalogs the act of making, of constructing, of inventing, and reinventing.” He begins his work by drafting pieces in a 3-D computer modeling program. Complex armatures and paper templates aid him in building his work. His pieces are composites of thrown, press molded and slab-built sections. Peter has a BS in Environmental Science from Wheaton College, and an MFA from Pennsylvania State University. He has currently been awarded a long term residency at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT. When not in MT, he is an associate professor at Eastern Oregon University. Todd
Opening Reception:
Friday, March 8
5:00 – 7:00 pm
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When I saw this I just about lost my mind and jumped in the car and drove straight there to see it. Then I remembered how far away I am and that we’re expecting a winter storm today….maybe another day. Thank goodness all the images are online.
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| Claire Curneen |
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curatorial statement for Tisdale Figurative Invitational
“James Tisdale is a Resident Artist and Ceramic Education Coordinator at the Austin Museum of Art. His position with AMOA has allowed him to participate in several residency programs in the US and across the globe, even teaching at the International Ceramic Studio in Kecskemet, Hungary. His allegorical, biographically inspired figures have been exhibited internationally and most recently his work was featured at SOFA Chicago. Red Lodge Clay Center is proud to welcome Tisdale back to Montana after twenty years. We are also excited to have the opportunity to collaborate with him on this exhibition. “Silhouettes” presents an intimate, yet diverse display of contemporary, figurative ceramic sculpture.
The figure has had a pretty interesting run throughout the history of art. More than once this icon has been declared “DEAD”, only to rise again thanks to the undeniable hubris of the human condition. We will always grapple with ourselves and so we will always have need to view ourselves through the varied, external, interpretive lens of the maker. Some of the artists in the exhibit honor the classical rendering of the figure to explore the human condition, while others abstract surface and form to exploit psychological underpinnings or to celebrate frozen moment narratives. Humor, history, mythology, and anthropomorphism inform these objects in a melange that is only possible in modernity. It’s easy to forget that the salon once vilified deviations from the representational figure. Now such deviations are not only accepted, they are the exemplar. Debates between protectors of tradition and those reaching for innovation are applicable to many fields and it is an opportunity to examine our own boundaries.
Humanity has primordial ties with the material of ceramics and a seemingly primordial impulse to recreate our likeness in the plastic mud. The figure serves as human proxy and as divine proxy. The figure functions as icon and catharsis. It is a way for us to try catching lightening in a bottle. The collective “we” can redefine ourselves through the figure. Through the figure we can be immortal. “
Artists in the show: Sunkoo Yuh, Kensuke Yamada, Janis Mars Wunderlich, Paige Wright, Patti Warashina, James Tisdale, Zachary Tate, Richard Swanson, Nan Smith, Esther Shimazu, Deborah Rogers, Gabriel Parque, Richard Nickel, Meg Murch, Melissa Mencini, Tammy Marinuzzi, Beth Lo, Clayton Keyes, Margaret Keelan, Magdalene Gluszek, Debra Fritts, Diana Farfan, Thaddeus Erdahl, Claire Curneen, Andrea Keys Connell, Tom Bartel, Wesley Anderegg, Pavel Amromin
Show runs until April 26th
Red Lodge, MT 59068 Ph. 406.446.3993
redlodgeclaycenter.com/lists.php?eid=181&type=exhibit
Il Primo Ristorante, 371 Preston St.
Allium Restaurant, 87 Holland Ave.
Thyme and Again, 1255 Wellington St. W.
Remember
the action takes place this Saturday, March 2nd at the Glebe Community
Centre, 175 Third Ave. starting at 5pm. Check our blog for the 14
delicious soups and fresh baked breads that are in store for you. And
admire the variety of handcrafted pieces that will be auctioned during
the evening.
Also, don’t forget that after you have tasted these wonderful soups, you keep your handcrafted bowl for future dining.
