and I’d love to see you out at these events if they are in your part of the world.
I’ll be demonstrating alongside some amazing artists.
I can’t wait to learn as well : )
SURFING the SURFACE:
Ceramic workshop with Ben Carter (US) and Carole Epp (Canada)
@ Slow Clay Centre
Globe-trotting contemporary ceramic artists Ben Carter and Carole Epp
deliver a one-day workshop that will inform you of the rich variety of
surface decoration approaches that they use in their individual
practises. Whilst demonstrating their techniques they will also discuss
their different blogs (Musing about Mud) and podcasts (Tales of the Red
Clay Rambler) and the way they utitlise the possibilities of the
internet and social media to engage new audiences.
This workshop will inspire you to approach your surfaces with rich
variety and also be inspired to see the inherent possibilities of the
internet and social media to expand your reach thereby making your
practice more sustainable.
Content will cover: Each artist will give a presentation about the
development of their work and career, discussing their achievements and
their use of blogs, podcasts and social media. They will then
demonstrate their unique surface techniques which will include
variations of slip and engobe deocration, sgraffito, underglaze colour,
burnishing and Ben and Carole’s individual developments in the surfaces
they use. There will be scope for deep discussion and enagagment with
these two well-known and highly respected artists. All welcome!
When: Sunday 19 July, 2015, 10am – 4pm
Where: Slow Clay Centre, 13 Keele St, Collingwood
Cost: $265 ($245 early-bird price until 1 June) Bookings are essential due to limited places.
Focus will be on developing rich surfaces for both
functional and sculptural ceramics. Participants
will learn a variety of surface-design methods
including slip decorating, sgraffito, underglaze
painting, resist painting, mishima, and layering
stains. During the workshop we will discuss
aesthetic issues (i.e. proportions, color theory,
etc.), making strong functional pottery forms, using
metaphor and story telling as a basis for sculpture,
and creative problem solving in the studio.
Additional discussions of marketing, social media
and the changing landscape of contemporary craft
will leave the workshop attendees recharged,
rejuvenated and ready to grow in their own studio
practice.
with Brendan Tang, Cathi Jefferson, Bill Reddick and Carole Epp
August 7th-9th, 2015
Join us in Prince George for our fourth Northern BC Clayfest! This
exciting event will offer you the opportunity to learn about advanced
clay techniques. You will have the opportunity to network with your
fellow artists, and meet our exciting workshop presenters. We are
hosting four nationally acclaimed clay artists who will present two days
of techniques. Presenters will also provide a 45 minute slide or video
along with their hands-on techniques for the benefit of the
participants.
This year Prince George is celebrating its 100th birthday, and the
University of Northern BC is celebrating is 25th anniversary, so we will
helping to commemorate these special occasions with our events.
The
Mary Anderson Center for the Arts is excited to host our second
Potters’ Retreat. This June our presenters will be Ben Carter, Chandra
DeBuse and Kathy King.
Come to the beautiful
grounds of Mt. St. Francis for this amazing three day workshop
experience. Not only will each artist work independently, but the three
will work together, interacting and exchanging stories and insights into
their lives as working artists. This workshop is designed to be a true
retreat, set on the 450 acres grounds, you will be recharged by the
community of fellow artists and the land around you. Meals will be
provided on site by the Mount’s two professional chefs and rooms are
available on site. Come and experience this fantastic retreat.
This demonstration only workshop
will showcase each artists’ work, focusing on their approach to the
surface and decoration. The intimate and personal talks with each artist
will give insight into their process and the unique approach each of
them take to their work.
Ben Carter will
demonstrate quick manipulations of soft wheel thrown clay to create
expressive pitcher, bowl, and cup forms. He will also cover decorating
with deflocculated slip and techniques for drawing on clay, including
sgraffito, wax resists, and underglaze painting.
Chandra DeBuse
will demonstrate how she designs unique and personal pottery forms using
simple and inexpensive materials, such as plywood and craft foam. In
addition to handbuilding, Chandra will share techniques used to alter
wheel-thrown work and to create multiple parts for building narrative
pots.
Chandra will share her surface decoration techniques, which include
sprigging, stamping, freehand drawing, underglaze inlay, sgraffito, and
the use of wax resist to create a layered and colorful surface.
Kathy King will
demostrate how to center on building a personal vocabulary of imagery
while considering methods of composition of that imagery onto the
wheel-thrown and hand built ceramic form. With humor as a tool to
create narratives within her work, King will introduce some
non-traditional ideas about function and methods of storytelling. She
will carve through slip-colored clay (sgraffito) and will showcase other
methods on leather-hard clay with transfer techniques such as decals,
silk-screening, resist printing from a photocopy and block-printing
images onto clay. In addition, glaze techniques that will enhance
surface work will be demonstrated.
The Ceramics Club will be hosting a 2-Day ceramic art workshop on Monday, March 30th and Tuesday, March 31st, 2015.
This 2- day ceramics workshop will be held at the Montgomery County
Community College – Central Campus, also streaming live
nationally/internationally. The demonstrations will feature three
nationally respected artist potters, Julia Galloway (Missoula, Montana),
Lorna Meaden (Durango, Colorado) and Tara Wilson (Helena, Montana).
In addition, the workshop will feature Artstream Gallery and its 2015 Spring Tour.
Artstream 2015 Spring Tour
The Artstream Nomadic Gallery is a travelling exhibition space housed
in a restored 1967 Airstream trailer. Based in Carbondale, CO, over
the past 14 years it has been exhibited in more than 150 location, from
Los Angeles to New York, Houston to Minneapolis, putting contemporary
ceramic art on the street. The 2015 “Spring Tour” features work by 26
national recognized and emerging studio potters. The work ranges the
spectrum of aesthetics and techniques found in contemporary ceramics.
Imagine designing a 3D object on your computer, printing it in 3D and
translating that into a ceramic object. and imagine doing it in an
inspiring century-old factory while surrounded by creative minds from
around the world.
With Medalta’s Bits to Atoms workshop (in
partnership with Medicine Hat College), you can do all of this. Bits to
Atoms facilitators will take you through the process of digital design
and 3D printing, in plastic. From there, you will make a plaster mould
from your plastic object, which will serve as the model for your ceramic
piece.
This exciting opportunity is perfect for anyone working
in the field of Education, Digital Design & Rending or Ceramic Art
who is always looking for ways to incorporate new technologies into
their practice.
This workshop will present handbuilt and
thrown functional ware with both commercial and hand made sprig mold
embellishments. Attendees will have a hands-on demonstration of casting a
one part mold for sprig use. Sprigs will then be explored in a variety
of embellishing techniques on and off wheel in making and assembling
highly decorative functional ware.
