Any Means Necessary: Building Composite Forms In Porcelain

by | Mar 29, 2011 | Uncategorized

Gwendolyn Yoppolo, Instructor

Jul 18, 2011 – Jul 29, 2011

Gwendolyn Yoppolo is currently a spring resident artist at Anderson Ranch Arts Center. She recently completed a two-year residency at the Archie Bray Foundation. Prior to that, she worked as a kiln technician at Alfred University, and as Assistant Professor of Art at Juniata College. She holds an MFA from Penn State University, an MA from Teachers College Columbia University, and a BA from Haverford College. She creates sensuous kitchen and tablewares that use the physical experience of hunger and satiation to allude to larger issues of human desire and consumption.

www.gwendolynyoppolo.com

Bring your recurrent themes and formal obsessions to this workshop, where techniques evolve out of your visionary designs for contemporary food-related vessels and utensils. Starting from lived experience, each student develops a unique language of process and form to articulate ideas that are thoughtful and relevant to the food cultures we exist within. We interrogate the role of ceramics in the kitchen, on the table, in the hand, at the market, and on the go. Historical and contemporary ceramic practices are discussed as relevant to issues of design, aesthetics, and meaning.

For all workshop details and many other workshop opportunities please visit The Anderson Ranch Arts Center Website.

Flourish an exhibition of Decorative Ceramics by Connie Pike

by | Mar 26, 2011 | Uncategorized


April 9 – May 21, 2011
Exhibition Reception: Saturday, April 9, 2011, from 2 – 4 pm

Connie Pike has been a professional potter and ceramic artist in Alberta since 1978. Her approach to working with clay evolves as she investigates function and aesthetic. Shapes and designs build upon themselves and new versions of form and decoration filter through her body of work and refresh the process. Connie’s love of detail and drawing is the major influence on the work featured in Flourish. With a focus on using texture and line, Connie carves her drawings into a lino block tile and rolls the impression into the soft clay. She has adapted this method to decorate her tiles, trays, book covers, boxes, vases, mugs, glasses, jugs and vessels.

Alberta Craft Council Website.