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In this workshop, participants will be introduced to various methods for creating rich textural surfaces using reactive materials with slips and glazes. Participants will create their own vessels and glaze in the same day.
Beth will also demonstrate how to easily make colored slips using deflocculants and flocculants to reach the desired thickness. Once the pieces have been fired, you will be notified that they are ready for pick-up, or shipping can be arranged.
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Creativity is a constant cycle. We play, we edit. In this workshop, you'll experiment and, yes, "play" with ways to build up layers of fabric using quilting, stitching, appliqué, rearranging, deconstructing, and collage.
Participants will begin every day by making at least two 12" square flat panels of thick quilting, using the technique Khan developed and uses in all her work - she quilts first, before stitching any imagery or patterns - the opposite of traditional quilting. These panels are the structures that will function as prepared canvases and be used for experiments. Participants will cut parts out, reconfigure them, and, although in this class they'll be working in two dimensions, they'll start to add three-dimensional elements. Directed exercises will constantly transform the artwork & challenge the participants, as some of the panels will be completely altered. As participants learn new approaches, each will begin to use them in an individual project.
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Jeff Margolin has been carving clay for 50 years, as an occupation and passion. In this workshop, participants will be exploring a variety of approaches, clays, and tools of the trade. There will be plenty of time to work on individual projects, as workshop participants are encouraged to bring leather hard pieces suitable for carving and design concepts to work on - yet there will be clay forms prepared and plenty of designs for carving as well. Participants will explore historical and cultural aspects of carving and work on generating their own designs and how those designs can be realized in clay.
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It doesn’t matter if you make pottery or sculptural ceramics, you’re involved with low or high fire processes, have years of studio experience or have just started with clay, you will learn how to boost your ceramics with bright colors.
This hands-on workshop is designed to introduce the painterly surface treatment as an alternative to traditional glazing techniques. Participants will learn how to use underglazes, underglaze pencils and chalks to create multi-layered, colorful imagery.
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In this two-day hands-on workshop, Natasha Dikareva will share her process of forming otherworldy creatures, blending mythology, contemporary elements and imagination into a sculptural ceramic object.
During the first day she will demonstrate different clay hand-building techniques. On the second day, the main focus will be on surface treatments. The ceramic surface will be approached as a canvas, using slips, underglazes and the sgraffito technique to create vibrant, dynamic surfaces of visual storytelling. Participants will also have the ability to practice post-glaze techniques such as china painting. For this purpose, students are encouraged to bring bisque-ware to experiment on.
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In this workshop, led by Kevin Wallace, director of the Center, participants will explore spirit through the arts. Following a PowerPoint presentation, drawing upon the recently published book, Intersection: Art & Life, participants will work with clay, stains and underglazes to create objects that explore the visual and tactile language of art as a means of better understanding and connecting with spirit.
Each workshop participant will receive a copy of the new book by Kevin Wallace, Intersection: Art & Life.
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An afternoon to explore the medium of sculptural clay and have fun creating. Participants will create their own right hand from clay, will learn sculpting techniques, and explore texture and mark-making using ordinary objects and stamps that can be used as embellishment to the hand they create. In ancient times it was common to leave replicas of body parts such as the hand as an offering and as a sign of faith. The open-palmed right hand is considered the hand of god and is depicted globally throughout history in ancient texts, artifacts, and all manner of art from fresco paintings, to cave paintings, to rock carvings, to wooden icons, and more, unifying all religious and spiritual realms.
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Using the fundamental building blocks of hand-building with clay, participants will explore and combine the pinch pot, coil, and slab methods to create ceramic works that are functional, sculptural and decorative. No previous experience is necessary and perfection is not required - just a willingness to experiment and have fun with clay. You are welcome to bring along your own ideas and designs of things you would like to create or "come as you are" and let the inspiration flow organically.
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An afternoon to explore the medium of sculptural clay and have fun creating. Participants will create their own small ancient goddess from clay, will learn hand-sculpting techniques including the use of the dowel in clay, and explore texture and mark-making using ordinary objects and stamps. Ancient earth-mother-goddess figures are among the oldest ceramics known dating back some 30,000 years.
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An afternoon to explore the medium of sculptural clay and have fun creating. Participants will create their own small ancient spirit rattle from clay, will learn hand-sculpting techniques, and explore texture and mark-making using ordinary objects and stamps. Ancient artifacts show that the rattle has always held an important place in the civilizations of just about every culture. For many the rattle is regarded as the dwelling place of great spirits and ancestors. Participants will also explore the use of oxides, under-glazes and mason stains to add color and depth to the clay.
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It doesn’t matter if you make pottery or sculptural ceramics, you’re involved with low or high fire processes, have years of studio experience or have just started with clay, you will learn how to boost your ceramics with bright colors.
This hands-on workshop is designed to introduce the painterly surface treatment as an alternative to traditional glazing techniques. Participants will learn how to use underglazes, underglaze pencils and chalks to create multi-layered, colorful imagery.
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Caryl St Ama will guide students through an introduction to working with R&F Encaustic paint and pigment sticks. The 2-Day workshop provides students an immersive experience with a solid base in techniques and best practices for using wax. Throughout the two days, she encourages your creative development in painting, layering, mark making and mixed media work.
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A central theme in Allison Newsome's work is the relationship between humans and the environment, and how the human psyche has changed with shifts from the wilderness to the agrarian, and into the industrial and post-industrial world. This focus is of particular interest to us, as we are an activity of the Happy Valley Foundation, which cares for 500 acres of land, much of it left untouched as a wildlife corridor.
Participants will create works inspired by history and nature, and the three-dimensional works will utilize Newsome's once-fired technique for working in clay, with mixed media.
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In this one-day, hands-on workshop, Beth Tate will share how she employs rich textural surfaces to create animated and lively ceramic vessels. Techniques will include layering glazes with reactive and colored slips, sgraffito, and millefiori. Participants will create vessels, utilizing hand-building and/or wheel throwing processes, and the surfaces will reveal themselves using a once-fired process.
No previous experience is required.
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Join award-winning artist Jennifer McChristian in this fun and invigorating 5-day plein-air painting workshop. The aim of this workshop is to teach you to interpret the landscape in terms of paint, using light and color to create form. Color relationships, design/composition, simplifying and the benefits of painting outdoors will be discussed, as well as how to design and build a painting that carries an emotional impact. We will focus on values, shapes, edges and color as well as paint handling and materials. The instructor will offer a brief demonstration each day and advice on a one-on-one basis in the field. Additionally, there will be class discussions and critique of work so that participants will learn from individual instruction as well as each other.
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A day to be silly, explore limitless possibilities of the imagination, and have fun creating. Participants will create their own fantastical animal spirit vessel from clay, learn slab and hand-building techniques, and explore texture and mark-making using ordinary objects and stamps. Participants will also explore the use of oxides, under-glazes and mason stains to add color and depth to the clay. Pieces made during the workshop include the cost of kiln firing and will be fired and made available for pickup at a later date. Includes light vegetarian lunch. No experience necessary. Bring your friends and your imagination with you and be ready to have fun.
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The currents of Primitivism run through contemporary art. The term ‘Primitive’ can be interpreted ethnographically, as a reference to the artifacts of tribal people; and it can be viewed in a derogatory manner, a reference to works that are somehow less sophisticated than those created in the modern world. But once Primitivism was embraced by the great artists of the 20th century - Gauguin, Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani, Klee, Giacometti, amongst others, it came to be viewed with great respect, as an aesthetic designation.
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The objects we create, that have served us body, mind, and spirit, whether in tribal cultures or great civilizations, define us and have historically proven to be the means of expanding and understanding ourselves. The Spirit, though intangible, has been the essential element of human artifact since the beginning of recorded art history.
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This 2-day workshop will explore traditional hand-building approaches in clay and 'raku' firing. In the studio, instruction on a range of hands-on techniques will allow participants to make their own unique forms in clay; experimentation and play being encouraged. Pieces made during the workshop will be fired and made available for pick up at a later date during the exhibition. The workshop will include demonstrations, participants creating/working in clay, glazing/designing pre-bisqued forms (which we will provide) with imagery in colored glazes, oxides, and lusters, followed by exploring the firing the works in a series of 'raku' firings.
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Historically, most religious traditions - from indigenous cultures to the great civilizations - used the arts to enhance the spiritual experience. Most of the body of human artifact which we now refer to as ‘art’ consists of objects used in religious rituals or those that depict religious themes. Due to their strong emotional impact and ability to act immediately and directly upon our perception, the arts have the ability to enhance religious experience, and evoke a sense of transcendence, or the presence of some deeper or divine presence. The arts enhance religious experience by evoking strong emotions that preclude conceptual thought and may even invoke a sense of transcendence or the presence of the divine.
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