This four-day workshop will share information gleaned from a recent twelve-week workshop presented by Allison Newsome for the Harvard Ceramics Program Office for the Arts. The Harvard workshop was a multi-disciplinary collaboration with University of Rhode Island's Inner Space Center and included Amphorae research from Black Sea Byzantine shipwreck discoveries. The. Students visited URI's Graduate School of Oceanography where they met the Inner Space Team to get a first hand look at their research.

The workshop at the Center will share Newsome's experience with this project and explore the amphora vessel as a metaphor and point of departure for clay sculpture. The Amphora shape has long been associated with the human figure as it not only contains fluids, but makes figurative reference to the foot of the pot, the shoulder, the neck, and other aspects of the body. The class will use a wide variety of techniques including basic clay building techniques in collaboration with mixed media, film and projection. Workshop participants will create an original work of art, which they will take with them at the end of the workshop.

 

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The Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts
Tel: 805-646-3381 or email us at BeatriceWoodCenter@gmail.com.

 
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