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Summer 2010 Registration Forms are available on-line.
To participate in one or more of the many creative experiences presented this Summer term, and for any questions, please email Shawn Panepinto or call 617.495.8680. Summer Courses
Hand Built Forms and Structures
June 1 – July 20, Tuesdays 6:30 – 9:30 pm
8 weeks/8 sessions: Whether you’re interested in making utilitarian wares, sculptures, or tiles, hand building is limited only by your imagination. Techniques include coil building, slab construction, simple press molding, and various combinations. Anything is possible.
Instructor: Forrest Snyder
Mosaics
June 1 – 29, Tuesdays 1:00 – 4:00 pm
5 weeks/5 sessions: Create mosaics with traditional Italian glass smalti. This course offers an in-depth experience of design, fabrication, and mounting of glass mosaics. Various public and private commissions will be highlighted.
Instructor: Lisa Houck
Handle This!
June 2 – 30, Wednesdays 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
5 weeks/5 sessions: Thrown and altered, or hand built, mugs, casseroles, pitches, and teapots are unique forms which all require special consideration when adding handles. Variations in forming, placing for function, and aesthetics will be explored in depth. The right tuck in a pot can make the prefect place for a handle.
Instructor: Delanie Wise
Exploring Clay
June 2 – 30, Wednesdays 6:30 – 9:30 pm OR
July 14 – Aug.11 Wednesdays 6:30 – 9:30 pm
5 weeks/5 sessions: You are invited to learn the ways of the wheel and hand building. Various decorative surface techniques and glazing will be highlighted. This is a great opportunity to try clay, providing an excellent foundation for further exploration. For those who have previous experience, instruction will be tailored for them.
Instructor: Stephanie Young
Throw Bigger! Better! Taller!
June 7 – July 26, Mondays 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
8 weeks/8 sessions: First time throwers can gain foundation skills for throwing good solid pots. More advanced students will be instructed on special techniques to enlarge their throwing repertoire. All will enjoy making pots bigger! Better! Taller!
Instructor: Wayne Fuerst
It’s a Cover-Up
June 24 – Aug. 12, Thursdays 6:30 – 9:30 pm
8 weeks/8 sessions: The session focuses on making hand built, and thrown lidded forms that fit the pot’s function and aesthetics; ranging from simple jars to elaborate casseroles. Both experienced and new-to-clay students will be challenged to create a successful “cover-up”.
Instructor: Denny McLaughlin
Tile Murals: Design and Construction
July 5 – 28, Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
4 weeks/8 sessions: Explore an exciting range of mathematical concepts integral to making tiles and murals. Participants will learn new techniques and design solutions while working, invaluable for art educators developing projects for art classes at all levels. Graduate credit eligible through Framingham State College.
Instructor: Wasma’a Chorbachi
Where did that come from?
July 7 – Aug. 4 (no class 7/28), Wednesdays 12:00 – 1:30 pm
4 sessions (no class 7/28): This informal class will feature weekly 90-minute slide presentations representing work by contemporary ceramic artists with an eye toward showing the progression and development of style. Occasional critiques will engage students and offer opportunities for open discussion.
Instructor: Shawn Panepinto
Ocarinas: Making Musical History
July 13 – Aug. 10, Tuesdays 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
5 weeks/5 sessions: These whistle-flute like instruments date back thousands of years, being important to both Chinese and Mesoamerican cultures. Artist and musician Kathi Tighe leads the construction of both single note and multiple note ocarinas. Special emphasis given to raku firing and instrument tuning after firing.
Instructor: Kathi Tighe
Printing on Clay
July 20 – Aug. 12, Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:00 – 4:00 pm
4 weeks/8 sessions: A variety of printing techniques will be explored as a means of personal expression. Techniques include mono-printing, silk screening, stenciling, creating water-slide decals, embossing, and relief printing from plaster slabs onto clay. Historic and contemporary examples will provide inspiration.
Instructor: Kathy King
Independent Study
8-week and 11-week sessions only: Self directed work, for those who have previously enrolled in a class at the Ceramics Program and are capable of processing their own work; includes access to opportunities to participate in firing workshops and attend lectures by visiting artists.
Firing Workshops
Wood Firing: Green Fire, Smokeless Wood Kiln with Kusakabe, Masakazu. July 9 – 13th.
Saggar Firing: Painting with Fire with Pao-Fei Yang. July 10, 24, 31, Aug. 1, 2.
Raku Firing: Playing with Fire with Kathi Tighe. July 12, 29.
Soda Firing: Spray the Glaze through the Flames with Crystal Ribich. TBA
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