by Carole Epp | Jul 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
 Saturday – Sunday, September 10 – 11, 10am – 4pm Fee: $180 members; $200 non-members
In this 2-day demonstration workshop, each artist will share their techniques for surface enhancement. Lisa will start her part of the workshop by throwing and handbuilding soft pottery in bisque molds. Forms will include dinnerware, sugar/creamer set, salt cellar, and a compote/vase centerpiece. She will demonstrate how to make sprig molds from plasticene, apply various slips for depth and layering, and then decorate with the sprigs. Nichrome wire is used to attach moving parts. Glazing will be demonstrated on a bisque fired piece.
Liz Quackenbush thinks ornamentation is a fascinating way we can make our world more complex and beautiful and will demonstrate her handbuilding and brushwork glaze techniques. Liz will bring bisque fired red-earthenware pieces to demonstrate the way she develops her glaze painted surfaces. She will discuss her abstract visual language based on metaphor and symbolism. Slide presentations and discussions will include European and Islamic decorative clay traditions.
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 Liz Quackenbush is a Professor of Art at the Pennsylvania State University in State College, PA. She received her BFA from the University of CO, Boulder and her MFA from The School for American Craftsmen at Rochester Institute for Technology. Liz has taught numerous workshops at crafts schools and many universities and colleges across the country. Her work has appeared in numerous books and art publications, and is included in many private and public collections including Aberystwyth Arts Center, The George Gardener Museum, and Arizona State University Art Museum.  For 27 years Lisa Orr has been professional potter and student of ceramics. She completed an MFA at the NYSCC at Alfred University in 1992 and later received grants including a Fulbright and a MAAA/NEA. Her work is in numerous public and private collections including the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, and the permanent collection of WOCEF in Korea. Currently she teaches, lectures and shows nationally and internationally
Clay Art Centre
40 Beech Street,
Port Chester, NY 10573 | Ph: 914-937-2047 | Fax: 914-935-1205Website
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by Carole Epp | Jul 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
Visit their website for more details about the workshops as well as residency opportunities.
Sept 22-Oct 5: Anagama Wood-Firing: Spontaneous Glazing
Course Level: Minimum beginning throwing/hand-building skills recommended
Cost: USD $2300 (*includes: accommodation, breakfast & lunch, all studio materials, firing, instruction, and excursions around Bali)
read more… Oct 9-15: A Thousand Surfaces (one week)
Course Level: All levels
Cost: USD $1245 (*includes: accommodation, breakfast & lunch, all studio materials, firing, instruction, and excursions around Bali)
read more… Oct 30-nov 12: Raku And Smoke Western Raku And Smoke:
Course Level: Beginning throwing skills recommended
Cost: USD $2150 (*includes: accommodation, breakfast & lunch, all studio materials, firing, instruction, and excursions around Bali)
read more…
by Carole Epp | Jul 23, 2011 | Uncategorized
van den Heuvel, Kao-Lin
Material Matters is a major exhibition focusing on works drawn from the ANU Ceramics Workshop Teaching collection. It links a broad range of community based events which will involve all members of Canberra’s ceramic networks. From professional masterclasses and open workshops, from community woodfirings to exhibitions, from guided school tours to the symposium there will be something for everyone.
International Visiting Artists include Anton Reijnders | Netherlands
Netty van den Heuvel | Netherlands
Ray Chen | Taiwan/USA
Christina Bryer | South Africa
SYMPOSIUM | MATERIAL MATTERS
Presentations by students, faculty and artists on the nature & meaning of their material research. Submissions for papers (20mins) are invited – please contact Janet DeBoos | [email protected] Friday 19th August 6-8pm Exhibition opening / Reception
Saturday 20th August 10am – 5pm Keynote speaker Anton Reijnders
Sunday 21st August 9am-12pm & 1 – 3pm Open Studio Cost $55 gst incl (includes reception & Saturday lunch $30 gst free (Full Time secondary and tertiary students)
WORKSHOPS
Ray Chen | Material expression (presentation and demonstration)
Thursday 4 August 10 – 4pm
Cost: $66 gst incl
In this demonstration workshop on the expressive use of clay, Visiting Artist Ray Chen (USA) will lead students to examine the potential of clay to describe emotion and feeling, whilst considering the sculptural requirements of 3-D objects. His work on the theme of Mother & Child will also be discussed and aspects of its making explained.
Joanne Searle | Transferring – transfer printing on clay
Saturday 6 August 9 – 1pm
Cost: $33 gst incl
This one day workshop will cover various ‘print on clay’ techniques including plaster monoprints, fabric & tissue transfer as well as low-tech etching. These printed surfaces will be applied to both wheel thrown and hand built forms. Various methods of treating the surface at the raw, bisque & high firing stages will be covered. Tiles and materials will be provided at cost.
Janet DeBoos | I can see clearly…
Sunday 7 August 9 – 1pm
Cost: $33 gst incl
A good clear glaze- although often seen as the simplest of ceramic surfaces- is frequently difficult to achieve. This workshop will examine the reasons why a glaze is not clear, how to make it clear, and how clear glazes can be adjusted for different temperatures. Demonstration materials and tiles supplied at cost.
Anton Reijnders | Thinking through making (terra sigillata)
Tuesday & Wednesday 9 & 10 August, 9am – 1pm Cost $66 gst incl
In this workshop- the renowned Netherlands author of ‘The Ceramic Process’ (A&C Black) will ask “What makes a good terra sigillata? On the basis of practical tests students will find out how to make and apply terra sigillata and moreover learn about the mineralogical makeup of clay. Materials supplied at cost. Student should bring no less than 100gs of dried, pulverised clay to the workshop- preferably gathered locally- but could be any dried commercially available body.
Netty van den Heuvel | Dialogue in 3 Dimensions (mixed media workshop)
Thursday & Friday, 11 & 12 August 9 – 1pm & 2 – 4pm
Cost: $110 gst incl
An exploratory workshop in three dimensions, using clay, and found objects, as well as an enquiry into the potential of combining clay with other materials such as silicone. Students will be invited to go through a series of structured exercises in finding, looking and making
Greg Daly | Alchemy- lustre glazes
Saturday & Sunday, 13&14 August 10 – 1pm
Cost $66 gst incl
This two day workshop with acclaimed glaze maestro Greg Daly (author of Lustre- A&C Black- due to be released early 2012) will cover all aspects- making, applying and firing- of that enigmatic ceramic surface -lustre.
Four different ways of achieving this surface will be explained- pigment lustre, lustre glazes, resin lustres and fuming. Materials will be provided at cost.
Christina Bryer | Working with porcelain from a non traditional angle
Thursday 18 August 10 – 4pm
Cost $66 gst incl
This demonstration workshop will attempt to unravel the three interwoven aspects of Christina’s work and examine them in the light of the following themes:
Art & Design (inspirations and influences), Geometry (Aperiodic Tiling and Sacred Geometry, from Plato to Penrose and back again) and Technical Explanations (working with porcelain in a non-traditional way)
(Note that all workshops are subject to minimum numbers to run, and will be cancelled with less than five participants. There are also a ton of exhibitions and other events taking place. Please visit their website here for all the details and make sure to attend if you can, sound like a good one!
by Carole Epp | Jul 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
Find out more about the Medalta Historical District here.
Xanthe Isbister was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Honors degree from the University of Manitoba in 2004, and her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2008. Following her graduate studies, she had the opportunity to live and create work in a studio in Roswell, New Mexico. Since moving back to Canada, she has had the opportunity to teach at the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the University of Manitoba. Most recently she was awarded a Special Opportunities Grant from the Manitoba Arts Council and attended the year long residency at the Medalta International Artists in Residence in Medicine Hat, Alberta. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally including the National Council on Education for Ceramics Arts, the Alberta Craft Council and is creating work for an exhibition at the Gardner Museum in Toronto, Ontario this coming fall, 2011. www.xantheisbister.com.
by Carole Epp | Jul 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
Kerrie Lowe Gallery
49 – 51 King Street, Newtown NSW 2042 Australia
Phone + 61 2 9550 4433 / Fax + 61 2 9550 1996
Hours 10am – 5.30pm Mon-Sat / Thurs till 7pm
The Kerrie Lowe Gallery specializes in contemporary ceramics as well as painting, printmaking, jewellery and sculpture. We also support the ceramic community by providing Sydney’s only inner city outlet for ceramic supplies.
Located at the Sydney University end of King Street, our usual schedule features two concurrent exhibitions; one in the Shopfront Gallery and one in the Small Gallery.
by Carole Epp | Jul 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
vitrified studio: inspire is full of gorgeous eye candy and amazing artists to inspire you. Please take some time to check it out.
“this blog is made for those who share an appreciation in the subtle beauty in simple handmade ceramic forms, and as an ode to the ceramic artists who inspire me. vitrifiedstudio is a small ceramics studio located in portland oregon USA specializing in simple handcrafted functional ware designed by shelley martin.” follow shelley martin’s ceramic journey here: http://vitrifiedstudiowork.wordpress.com/ to follow both blogs, become a fan on facebook. https://www.facebook.com/vitrifiedstudio www.vitrifiedstudio.com (site under construction) email – vitrifiedstudio @ gmail.com
