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.
Join Jason Walker for weekend and hone your sculpting
skills. This workshop will include a 45 minute slide presentation of
Jason’s sculptural work. The first day will demonstrate various
sculpting techniques. On Sunday, you will see more sculpting
techniques, talk about designing a surface and see demonstrations on
surface treatments with underglazes and china paints. This is a lecture
and demonstration workshop, not hands-on. All levels welcome!
