| 2007
Summer Workshops |
 "No Services 37 Miles", Nicholas Trofimuk |
| 2007
Summer Workshops |
| "No Services 37 Miles", Nicholas Trofimuk |
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McKENZIE
SMITH
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McKenzie’s
aim “is to make functional pots that are lively and show the natural
beauty of clay and fire... that have a warm essence and give pleasure
in use.” In this workshop we will focus our attention on the making
of wheel thrown functional ware exploring a variety of forms from simple
cups, plates and bowls to more complex altered pots. We will use a number
of decorating techniques that include slips, wax resist and glaze. Please
bring a few small bisqued pots made from cone 10 clay for brushwork
and glaze experimentation. We will do one cone 10 gas firing. Demonstrations,
slides and discussions will be a part of our daily activities. McKenzie
will also share his brush-making knowledge with the class. Open to all
levels. |
McKenzie Smith is a potter working in Florida. He received his BFA from the University of South Florida, his MFA from the University of Florida, and worked as a Core Student at the Penland School of Crafts. Residencies include the Archie Bray Foundation, Banff Center for the Arts, Baltimore Clayworks, and the University of Miami. He has exhibited widely and taught numerous workshops throughout the US. |
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TED
SAUPE |
Ted
Saupe’s pots have been called “poetic visions that articulate
not only his personal story, but the story of the clay itself.”
“My work is always autobiographical,” he states, “whether
I am working figuratively or architecturally, or even when making vessels.”
In this workshop, students will focus on making medium to large-scale
pots using a variety of handbuilding techniques combined with thrown
sections. Textures, drawn and painted images, slips and underglazes
will be employed to create narrative surfaces. Students are asked to
bring pictures of pots or sculptures which tell some kind of story.
Journals and personal sketchbooks are also encouraged as reference sources.
A vocabulary of symbolic language and non-representational imagery will
be discussed and used to embellish our pots. Dry work will be bisqued.
All levels are welcome. |
Born
in Orange, NJ, the son of a German hosiery salesman, Ted Saupe somehow
ended up at the California College of Arts and Crafts where he received
a BFA in ceramics. He went on to earn his MFA from the University of
Wisconsin with Don Reitz. He taught at the University of Tennessee for
12 years and is currently Professor of Ceramics at the University of
Georgia where he has taught for 11 years. He has received a Southern
Arts Federation/NEA Grant and a Southeast Center for the Arts individual
artist grant. He exhibits extensively. |
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JUDY
FOX
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Judy
Fox is known for her figurative sculpture, pioneering contemporary figuration
with her nude children reenacting iconic poses. Working from a live
model, this rigorous seminar will focus on the abstract skills of observation,
analysis, and synthesis of form through the rendering of a portrait
bust. Students will handbuild with slabs to create a hollow, rough but
accurate bust form, and will then spend the week carving and refining
the features and details when the piece is leather hard. Judy will share
her thoughts and methods for figurative gesture and her skills in portraying
the elasticity of flesh. Figure modeling experience necessary. Model
fee: $30 (please add $32.29 for model fee and tax to your total). |
Judy
Fox is a sculptor working in New York City. As an undergraduate she
studied sculpture at Yale and Skowhegan, then received a Masters in
Art History and Conservation from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. She
has participated in numerous exhibitions in both the US and Europe,
has received two NEA grants and an award from the “Anonymous Was
a Woman” Foundation. She is a 2006 Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation. Her work is included in many museum collections
internationally and she has lectured extensively. |
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JOHN
BYRD |
This
workshop will explore the use of animals as part of an anthropomorphic
language used prominently in the history of visual culture. We will
examine many different contextual representations from advertising slogans
and cartoon imagery to ceramic realism. Workshop participants will construct
interpretations of an animal form using a variety of handbuilding methods.
Students should bring images from books, magazines, or other personal
sources to choose from. We will use calipers for direct measuring and
will make templates for bringing these animals into three dimensions.
The class will also explore the use of mixed media in conjunction with
the clay as a means of construction and to create additional surfaces.
John will also demonstrate his use of basic rubber mold making and resin
casting. Basic handbuilding skills are necessary. |
John
Byrd was raised in the mountains of North Carolina. He received his
BFA from Louisiana State University in 1997 and MFA from the University
of Washington in 2000. He has taught at the Kansas City Art Institute,
Louisiana State University, and is currently Assistant Professor at
the University of South Florida. He received a Myhre Fellowship at the
Archie Bray Foundation in 2001 and was awarded a second place Virginia
Groot Foundation Grant in 2004. His work has been exhibited extensively
throughout the United States. |
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BEVERLY
MAYERI |
Beverly
Mayeri’s figures “evoke a richly complicated human presence.”
Her sculptures often “bridge the psychological, the political
and the sensuous within one hybrid form.” During this workshop,
students will build a life-sized human head using coils and a variety
of detailing modeling techniques. Students can work realistically or
from one’s imagination to create unique personalities in these
portraits. We will also make some small studies of faces which will
be fired and used for surface experimentation in color using underglazes
and acrylic paints. Beverly will present ongoing demonstrations and
slide presentations which will include inspirational and historical
figurative art. Students are encouraged to bring source materials and
sketchbooks or just jump in Monday morning! All levels are welcome. |
Beverly
Mayeri is a studio artist living in the Bay Area. She earned a BA from
the University of California, Berkeley, and an MA in sculpture at San
Francisco State University. Her work has been shown extensively in numerous
museums and galleries, and is included in many public and private collections.
She has received 2 NEA grants, and a Virginia Groot grant, and has lectured
and taught many workshops throughout the US. |
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JENNY
MENDES |
Jenny’s
work references mythology, folk art and anthropomorphism. Her use of
animal imagery combined with figurative elements is often employed “to
express many of our essential and deepest human experiences.”
In this class we will focus on building a language of personal imagery
in our work to reflect each student’s own touch. During the week
we will use simple handbuilding techniques (coiling, pinching, slab)
to create sculptures, tiles and other objects with terra cotta clay.
In addition, the painted/drawn surface will be explored in detail using
multiple applications of underglazes and terra sigillatas. Our work
will be fired in the electric kilns. This is a class for students with
experience as well as those just beginning in clay. |
Jenny Mendes was born in Cleveland, OH. She has a BFA in ceramics from
Washington University in St. Louis. A full time studio artist since
the mid 1990’s, Jenny’s work can be seen in private collections,
galleries and fine craft shows across the US. She has received three
Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships and her work has been
published in many recent Lark Books. She is currently completing a three
year residency at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. |
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KARI
RADASCH |
This
class is for the potter who wants to make unique, interesting and useful
pots using a variety of handbuilding techniques. We will start by making
bisque molds from original and appropriated forms. We will construct
pots directly from these molds, and also use the molds to begin larger
forms that can be altered with the addition of coils, slabs and other
molded parts. We will experiment with surface treatments such as embossed
decoration, textures, etching, sprigs, slip trailing, colored slips,
stains and much more. Please bring to class simple forms and objects
from which to make molds, and images of objects that motivate you to
make pots. We will finish the week with a cone 03 electric glaze firing.
This class is for all levels. |
Kari
Radasch was born and raised in coastal Maine. She received her BFA from
Maine College of Art in Portland and her MFA from the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln. She has been a resident at the IWCAT program on Tokoname,
Japan and the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts. She was an Emerging
Artist at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia and was awarded a 2006 SAC
Artist Award by the Society of Arts and Crafts in Boston. She is currently
a full-time studio potter living in Westbrook, Maine, and has taught
many classes and workshops throughout the US. |
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MICHAEL
CONNELLY |
Michael
is “influenced by the workmanship and process of Asian cultures
and is inspired by Korean potters who strive for a sense of immediacy
and attentiveness to the moment without a self-conscious awareness of
making something good or important.” In this workshop, students
will throw a variety of functional forms from simple bowls, plates and
pitchers, to more complex lidded jars and teapots. We will also explore
altering thrown forms and contrasting gesture to make your pots more
dynamic. We will use earthenware clay and will experiment with colored
slips and terra sigillatas as a beginning layer for surface treatments.
A simple electric glaze firing will complete the week. All levels welcome. |
Michael
Connelly is a studio potter as well as department head at Montgomery
College in Philadelphia, PA. He received his MFA from Alfred University.
He has taught and presented lectures and workshops both nationally and
internationally. His utilitarian pottery is in the permanent collections
of the China Yaoware Museum, the Schein-Joseph International Museum
of Ceramic Art and Asheville Art Museum. |
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During
this workshop, students should prepare for pushing the boundaries of
conventional ceramic materials. Brad’s work revolves around reconfiguring
nature’s patterning systems in new and unusual ways, often using
ceramic materials in an unorthodox manner. In this workshop, Brad will
share a wide range of techniques, developed over the last 30 years,
for his functional and sculptural work. The class will explore basic
handbuilding methods for creating sculptural bowls and will develop
a series of cone five glaze tests appropriate for these forms. Brad
will also share his extensive knowledge of the use of additives for
altering clay bodies, mixing and layering clay bodies and manipulation
techniques for altering wet clay surfaces. Dry work will be bisqued.
This workshop is open to all skill levels. |
Brad
received his BFA and his MFA from the University of Oregon. He has received
a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist’s Fellowship.
From 1984 until 1992 he was the Executive Director of Anderson Ranch
Arts Center. His work can be found in the Brooklyn Museum, Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, National Museum of American
Art and the Renwick Gallery, among many other public and private collections.
His award winning web site: bradmillerstudio.com shows the full range
of his career. He is currently a full-time studio artist in Venice,
CA. |
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CYNTHIA
CONSENTINO |
Artists
have depicted the figure to tell stories and both reflect and redefine
their culture and experience. Cynthia’s sculptures utilize the
figure to explore issues such as gender, social roles and cultural perceptions.
In this workshop, students will work from the model to create their
own interpretation of the figure. We will create a clay armature from
extruded forms, and then use slabs, pinched forms, solid construction,
and carving to complete a half-sized standing figure. Sculptural form,
proportions of the body, cold joining methods, surface treatments, and
methods of developing content will be discussed. Come with ideas, images
and stories for your sculpture. Finished work will be bisqued after
the workshop. All levels welcome. Model fee: $22 (please add $23.68
for model fee and tax to your total). |
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Cynthia
received her MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and her
BFA from Cooper Union College of Arts and Sciences. She is a studio
artist in Holyoke, MA where she teaches as adjunct faculty at the community
college. A recipient of the American Craft Council, the Society of Arts
and Crafts, and the Blanche E. Coleman Artist Awards, Cynthia has exhibited
widely. She has also been a resident artist at the John Michael Kohler
Arts/Industry Program, La Napoule Foundation, France, and the Shigaraki
Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan. Cynthia created one of the John Michael
Kohler Art Center’s artist designed washrooms. |
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Tuition for all Workshops $425 Lab Fee for all Workshops $50 Non-refundable registration fee $50 |
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