Online workshop: Start a Pottery Business

by | Aug 12, 2016 | Uncategorized

 
You
fell in love with ceramics as a hobby, spent years honing you skills
and now you are ready to build your own successful ceramics business.
It’s easy
to build a successful ceramics business in the beginning. There are few
barriers to entry, startup expenses are modest and you can often sell
your work with little initial effort. The problems begin when your
friends and family have exhausted their immediate need for pottery.
Running a
profitable pottery business requires both sound business skills and a
high-quality, desirable product line. You have to understand what makes
your products unique, and create a plan for creating and selling them at
scale. This three-day live online workshop is designed to help you
build a successful business designing, producing and selling ceramics.
We have
brought together three successful ceramic artists to give you an inside
look at how they built their businesses. They will share some of the
insights and strategies that made them successful, and answer any
questions you have about building your own ceramics business. The
program will include one-hour live streamed sessions with Lisa Jones of Pigeontoe Ceramics, Peter Sheldon + Ellen Woglom of Sheldon Ceramics and Lorna Meaden of Lorna Meaden Pottery.
Here are some of the topics we will explore:
– Honing your style and designing products that sell
– Developing a retail business & selling wholesale
– Building a brand & getting press for your work
– Building an audience & selling ceramics online
– Social media for ceramic artists
– Selling in galleries

workshop: THE PRINTED FIGURE: Cristina Córdova and Jason Bige Burnett

by | Jul 18, 2016 | Uncategorized

OCTOBER 3-7, 2016
8 students per session
Location: Soto-Córdova Studios, Penland, NC
We
are joining forces for a third time to teach this unique combination of
figurative ceramic sculpture and surface development through the use of
underglaze transfers and monotypes.

Full info here: http://travel-arte.squarespace.com/new-page-1/

jasonbigeburnett.com
cristinacordova.com
The course will include:

  • The
    basics of anatomy and proportion, building a torso with slabs, and
    exploring different construction formats for pedestal or wall, finishing
    and detailing to optimize expression
  • An assortment of printing
    techniques for clay such as screen, monotype and plaster printing as
    well as tissue transfers and decals.
  • Lectures to show how artists utilize “printing” in clay and inspire conceptual investigation
  • Clay
    and all necessary materials for printing and developing surfaces
    including silkscreens, plaster, decals, transfers, slips, underglazes
    and glazes
  • Insider resources regarding clays, printing materials for clay, printing and anatomy books, models and specialty tools
  • 3 firings
  • A 4:1 teacher /student ratio (only 8 spaces available) to get deep into the techniques
  • A great lunch and afternoon coffee or tea
  • 8am-10pm access to the studio

 

Mould Making @ Medalta with CLINT NEUFELD

by | May 17, 2016 | Uncategorized

Monday, August 8 – Friday, August 12, 2016

$700(CAD) + 5% GST

Registration Deadline: July 8, 2016

Enrollment limited to 12 participants

Register Now

Instructor: Clint Neufeld

Clint Neufeld will guide you through all aspects of mold making and
slip casting in this 5-day workshop. Participants will have the unique
opportunity to join Clint in creating a multi-piece mold of a piece of
machinery from Medalta’s boneyard.

Fee includes:

  • 24 hour Medalta studio access
  • Full access to the entire Historic Clay District site
  • All support materials

Artist responsible for:

  • Accommodations: Units are reserved at Medicine Hat College Student Housing; call 403.529.3820 to book.

For more information, contact [email protected]

Cancellation/Refund Policy

A full refund (less a $25 admin fee) is available if you cancel by
the registration deadline. If Medalta cancels, or if you need to cancel
due to medical reasons, you will receive a full refund. If you need to
cancel after the registration deadline, you will be refunded 50% of the
course fee. For cancellations less than two weeks from the start date of
the course, we will be unable to issue any refund.

medalta.org/mould-making-medalta

Throwing, Spraying and ^6 Electric Firing Workshop with Steven Hill

by | Apr 24, 2016 | Uncategorized

 
Throwing, Spraying and ^6 Electric Firing
Workshop with Steven Hill
In
this 3-day workshop, you will learn the spraying and layering
techniques that gives Steven Hill Pottery its’ unique look. You will
work in Steven Hill’s studio, using his glazes and his spray guns and
you will receive coaching directly from Steven…

On the first day, Steven will discuss his philosophy on making pottery,
while throwing, assembling and applying slip to the forms and techniques
that he is well known for. The focus will be on spouts, handles, form,
surface, and the relationship between these elements. Steven will
demonstrate pitchers, bowls, mugs and yunomis.

Day 2 will be glazing day. In the morning Steven will address ways to
achieve the kind of richness and surface variation in electric kilns
that potters have come to associate with reduction / atmospheric firing.
The basic techniques of spraying and the more advanced theories of
layering and blending glazes will be explained and demonstrated. In the
afternoon students will glaze their pots. After pots are glazed we will
load kilns and fire overnight at ^6 – 8 oxidation.

On day 3 there will be technical lectures on spraying techniques,
equipment, firing cycles, and further experimentation. Finally we will
end up by unloading the kilns and discussing the results.
August 5 – 7, 2016, 9:30 – 5:00      Cost: $350 ($290 before May 1)
Register Online Now
 

323 W. Maple Ave
Independence, MO 64050
(816) 254-7552
323clay.com