2011 Workshops at the Bray
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Thomas Aitken and Kate Hyde – Free public lecture
Wednesday, March 9, at 7:00 pm
Room 245 North Building of ECUAD
1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island, Vancouver.
All are welcome and encouraged to attend.
Thomas Aitken and Kate Hyde will discuss aspects of their individual and collaborative ceramics practice, the challenges of making one’s living as a studio potter, objects that have influenced them and meanings special objects have in their lives.
The lecture is free and open to the public. We look forward to seeing you there.
For more on Thomas and Kate’s work, please see the North-West Ceramics Foundation Speakers Series at http://www.nwcf.ca/lecture_series.html or Thomas Aitken’s website at http://www.thomasaitken.com
Upcoming workshop: Inspired Ceramic Surfaces
INSPIRED CERAMIC SURFACES
May 20-22, 2011
Temple, Texas
Presented by Potters Council at Cultural Activities Center
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May 20-22, 2011
Temple, Texas
Presented by Potters Council at Cultural Activities Center
Register | Schedule of Events | Presenter Information
Are you looking for a new perspective on the potter’s wheel? Presenter Jake Allee will cover several thrown and altered techniques combined with handbuilding methods to create composite forms that break from the conventions of a wheel-thrown object.
Forming, finishing and firing lead to inspired surfaces
By bringing together these 6 talented and skillful ceramic artists, who each approach the surface in their own distinctive way, and adding the creative exchange between attendees, this conference will lead you down the path of inspiration and learning. Exceptional surfaces can be created in every stage of the creative process, from forming, finishing and in the firing process. Find out which stage sparks your creative chemistry.
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I’m giving a talk this Friday…
If you’re in the area please stop by.
Friday March 11, 2011 12:00 PM @ Snelgrove 
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Artist of the Day: Shana Salaff
Originally from Toronto, I currently reside in Fort Collins, Colorado, where I teach ceramics and other classes at both Front Range Community College in Fort Collins, Colorado, and Aims Community College in Greeley, CO. I received a diploma from the School of Craft and Design at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario, in 1995, and a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1998.
I have also worked as a studio potter for 7 years, running Wareshana Pottery in Halifax. Nova Scotia. My MFA in Ceramics came from California State University, Fullerton in 2009. After graduation, I was artist-in-resident at Art 342 in Fort Collins, where I fell in love with the area. After a second residence at the PauKune Wanner Art Haus in Severance, I moved into Fort Collins.
Artist of the Day: Carol Gouthro
Portals pieces that were included in the recent Contemporary Northwest Juried Exhibition at the Bellevue Art Museum Northwest Ceramic show in Seattle, Wa.
These pieces are approximately 28″ h x 16″ x 7″
They are terrecotta clay , handbuilt with slipcast additions, slips, underglazes, glazes and gold leaf.
The foundation of my work is the ceramic vessel in all its many incarnations as container. I have a strong interest in natural forms, cultural artifacts and personal mementos. I am drawn to ornament, embellishment, pattern, and texture. For the last ten years the vessel forms in my ceramic work have slowly been evolving into botanically inspired hybrid sculptural forms. In working on these pieces I have become more involved with the details, the close ups, the abstract, the peering into. My interest in detail, layers and encrustations has been heightened by repeated travels to India and China .I am fascinated by the complexity, diversity, beauty and danger of the natural world and this leads to thoughts about growth, nourishment, attraction, and sexuality .The works in this exhibition are the beginning of a series entitled “Portals”. This work is based on cut-away section drawings and photographs of natural forms. Built into these hybrids are some of the artifacts and mementos that form my DNA.
These pieces are all handbuilt terracotta with press-molded , thrown and slipcast additions. Surface treatments include slips, underglazes , glazes, and lusters.http://www.carolgouthro.com/
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