DIEGO ROMERO
EARTH, WIND AND FIRE


JUNE 11 - 15

Diego will guide students through collecting and processing local clay, building pinch pots, sanding and burnishing the surfaces, and painting with slips for simple decoration. The week will culminate in an outdoor wood firing of the completed pieces. Students should come prepared with ideas for imagery from their own cultures, personal histories or mythologies to use for surface drawing.

All levels are welcome.

DAVID REGAN
THROWING THE HUMAN FIGURE

JUNE 18 - 22

Model fee: $30

DAVID REGAN is a Montana-based ceramist who was educated at Rochester Institute of Technology and Alfred University. He is currently Associate Professor at the University of Montana Western. He has exhibited extensively, and his work is included in the collections of the American Craft Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is a former resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts and received a prestigious 2011 Individual Artist Grant from the Virginia Groot Foundation.

TIM TAUNTON
WALL FIGURE – WALL RELIEF

JUNE 25 - JUNE 29

SHAWN SPANGLER
STRUCTURING COMPOSITIONS: EXPLORING WHEEL THROWN FORMS


JULY 2 - 6

DEBORAH SCHWARTZKOPF
TRICKS OF THE TRADE


JULY 9 - 13

Build exciting, complex forms from simple parts! Students will begin the week exploring basic pattern making and constructing bisque molds. Using cone 6 white stoneware, Deborah will demonstrate techniques for altering thrown forms and incorporating slab components. Students will work to generate a toolbox of elements that can be puzzled together to create expressive pots. Slide shows, discussions and demonstrations will contribute to an inspirational week focused on enlivening your studio practice. Dry work will be bisque fired.

Basic wheel throwing skills are necessary.

DEBORAH earned her BA from the University of Alaska, Anchorage and her MFA from Penn State University. She has taught at Ohio University and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She was a resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, MT, Mudflat Studios, Boston, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, and Pottery Northwest, Seattle. After ten years of school, jobs and residencies, Deborah was thrilled to return to her hometown of Seattle, WA. She is currently an instructor at Seward Park Art Studios. She exhibits internationally and teaches workshops across the US.

DIANA FAYT
GRAPHIC CLAY


JULY 16 - 20

Diana describes the surfaces of her pots as “etchings in clay,” through which she is able to combine all of her artistic skills in ceramics, drawing, painting and printmaking. Using bisque and plaster molds, wall tiles and simple forms will be quickly built to be used for surface experimentation. Students will explore a variety of surface applications for three-dimensional ceramic objects. Demonstrations will include layering of slips and underglazes to create rich fields of color, drawing both in the clay and on the surface, the use of oxides and stains, and simple methods for transferring images onto the clay surface. Diana will share her secret firing tips for cone 5 stoneware, and tricks for achieving clean crisp lines in her drawings. Dry work will be bisque fired.

Some clay experience is helpful; all levels are welcome.

DIANA FAYT was born in Los Angeles and has lived in Northern California for most of her life. She began her education in Photography, Drawing and Graphic Design. She received her BFA in Ceramics and Printmaking from the California College of the Arts. Diana’s work has been featured on the cover of Ceramics Monthly, and in numerous European, Australian and Japanese publications. She currently exhibits her work in galleries and fine boutiques throughout the United States, Japan, Australia and Europe.

PATRICIA SANNIT
EXCAVATED STRUCTURES


JULY 23 - 27

PATRICIA teaches ceramics at Phoenix College in Phoenix, AZ. She received her BA in ceramics at the University of Minnesota where she studied with Warren Mackenzie. She was a student of Viola Frey at the California College of the Arts where she received her MFA. Patricia exhibits nationally and her work is included in many private and public collections. Her most recent project, Citadel, is a large installation based on an archeological site in northern Iraq. It was recently exhibited at the ASU Art Museum Ceramics Research Center.

MARGARET BOHLS
FORM AND VOLUME: SLAB BUILT POTS


JULY 30 - AUGUST 3

Volume is the key element of functional forms; it defines the potential for containment. During this workshop, students will learn how to create inventive volumetric pots using porcelain clay slabs. Margaret will present several strategies for going from flat to three dimensions, including using paper templates, creative cutting and darting of forms, and building in parts. Students will also explore the possibilities for surface embellishment using stamps, molds, sprigs and stencils to texture and adorn their work. Dry work will be bisque fired.

Students should have basic handbuilding experience.

MARGARET previously taught at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and at Sam Houston State University in Texas. She has been visiting faculty at Penn State University, Ohio University, and NSCAD University in Halifax, and was a resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in Helena, Montana for two years. She received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Louisiana State University. Margaret has taught many workshops at art centers and universities across the country. Her work has been shown in over 100 group and solo exhibitions and is included in the permanent collections of the Minnesota Museum of American Art, the American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA), and in the Sonny and Gloria Kamm Teapot Foundation Collection.

DANA MAJOR KANOVITZ
CONJURING THE FIGURE


AUGUST 6 - 10

Model fee: $30

Dana will demonstrate techniques for creating a realistic human figurative sculpture in 1⁄2 scale. Working from a live model, students will learn to measure and calculate proportional scale. Dana will share her methods for using pattern-making and hollow slab construction to achieve not only accurate anatomy, but also gesture and expression. Detailed demonstrations will focus on facial features, hands and feet, and methods for creating seamless, skin-like surfaces. Students will also be able to experiment with post-firing techniques using oil paints on sample tiles to create realistic flesh tones. Discussions will address the use of wigs and false nails for life-like embellishments to complete the figure. Completed figures will be bisque fired after the workshop.

Basic handbuilding skills are necessary.

DANA MAJOR KANOVITZ began working with the figure in clay in 1993, during an 18-month apprenticeship under Alexander Zadorin, of the Mukhina Art Institute of St. Petersburg, Russia. She has exhibited nationally and her work has been featured at SOFA and the Bridge Art Fair in Miami. Dana was a 2007 summer resident at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts. She received her BA in Philosophy from DePaul University and her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Dana lives in Chicago, IL where she maintains her studio at the Zhou Brothers Art Center.

CLAUDIA OLDS GOLDIE
SCULPTING THE FULL FIGURE


AUGUST 13 - 17

Claudia finds great beauty in the full figured female. Her figurative sculptures spring from both her imagination and from keen observation. Through her figures she is able to delve into the exploration of personality, dreams and relationships with both humor and sensitivity. Students will learn to create a 24” figurative sculpture – male, female, thin or robust – in high fire white stoneware using slab, pinching, coiling and modeling techniques. Participants will investigate gesture while exploring anatomy in movement. Students will learn to draw with graphite pencil and powder on fired clay as a surface option. Come with your imagination, a sense of humor, and the understanding that the imperfect figure is beautiful!

All levels are welcome.

CLAUDIA received her BFA in Sculpture from Boston University College of Fine Arts with post-graduate study in metal work at B.U. School of Artisanry. She founded the sculpture program at Dexter and Southfield Schools in Brookline, MA, where she has taught elementary and middle school students for many years. A passionate studio sculptor, Claudia is interested in experimental ways to incorporate her interest in drawing, printmaking and multi media into her ceramic work. She exhibits her work nationally and has won a number of prestigious awards including the Society of Arts and Crafts Artist Award and a Kiln God residency from Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts.