by Carole Epp | Apr 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
The SPLENDID SURFACES conference will bring together an accomplished group of presenters to demonstrate, share ideas and answer any questions you have. Discover how each presenter uses the clay as their canvas, creating lush surfaces so inspiring you will rush home to your studio with fresh ideas. If you’re looking to add to your repertoire of surface techniques, then this is the conference for you.
What you will learn:
Explore in detail the teapot form with reference to the perspective of proportions, and through the creation of the form, participants will develop skills in handling clay, sense of craftsmanship and better visual creative skills by virtue of the form.
Discussion of glazing through the use of the spray gun and brush layering to achieve jewel tone and other surface effects.
Demonstration of tool making and how to make a cane handle.
Discuss networking, pricing and presentational aspects that can lead to an artist being successful.
You’ll leave the conference with working knowledge of mishima (Japanese slip inlay), sgraffito (slip carving), sprig molds, slip trailing, shellac relief as well as use of underglazes on bisque.
Learn how to use the clay as canvas by drawing and painting with semi-moist underglaze decorating colors, underglaze decorating pencils and underglaze chalk crayons.
Gain the inside scoop from the Amaco/Brent team with discussion centering around their materials and tools used in the art of ceramics. They will provide guides for experimentation, troubleshooting and interesting glazing techniques. This will be your chance to ask the experts your burning questions.
Learn how to carve through slip-covered clay (sgraffito) on both thrown and handbuilt forms that are then glazed with a series of cone six, translucent glazes.
Learn how to incorporate print transfer techniques like water-slide decals, silk-screening and block-printing images onto clay.
Friday Night Reception, Saturday and Sunday Presenter Demonstrations
The schedule is set-up so that attendees can pick and choose which classes to attend over the two day event. Attendees will sign-up during Friday and/or Saturday morning registration. Attendees will be asked to choose one presenter for AM and PM for Saturday and Sunday. Each attendee will see four of the six presenters.
by Carole Epp | Apr 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
PORCELAIN II
October 22-24, 2010
San Diego, California
Hosted by Clay Artists of San Diego
Receive expert tips and techniques
Porcelain II features four highly talented women. These women of porcelain will help you conquer this beautiful but challenging ceramic material. They will share their tips and techniques that will take your work to the next level. Let yourself be inspired!
Mark Your Calendar and Register Today! Space Limited
Featured Artist: Erin Furimsky, Kristen Kieffer,
Jennifer McCurdy and Lorna Meaden
For more information and to register, click on a link below:
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Registration Information What you will learn:
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Learn decoration techniques from stamp-making and stamping to slip-trailing and resists.
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Altering and darting wheel-thrown forms.
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Learn how to create pots that have a generous sense of volume and fluidity of line, with wheel-thrown and altered porcelain.
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Altering pots on and off the wheel.
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Slip inlay surface treatment.
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The step-by-step instruction- from throwing to decorating- of making a porcelain watering can.
- Discover the technique of dry-throwing porcelain.
- Hand carving forms in the leather-hard stage.
- Discuss the concept of strength vs plasticity in the porcelain as it moves through the working stages.
For all the details click here.
by Carole Epp | Apr 7, 2010 | Uncategorized
Figurative Association:
The Human Form in Clay Symposium
October 27–30, 2010
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts With a focus on figurative ceramic sculpture, this 3-day Symposium provides exhibitions, dialogue, and exchange of technical and conceptual ideas among established and emerging artists, educators, students and collectors. The Symposium exhibitions, studios, auditorium, housing and dining facilities are in close proximity and provide an intimate setting for engaging dialogue. Limited to only 200 attendees.
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The Symposium will feature 8 international / nationally known ceramic and mixed media artists who will each present a series of demonstrations and topic related discussions. The 3-day Symposium begins on Wednesday evening, October 27 with two exhibition openings, followed by the Symposium opening introductions and keynote. The following three days include a variety of rotating technical demonstrations and presentations by the Artists/Presenters, two panel topical discussions, two lectures by guest speakers and a round table conversation. Topics and speakers will be announced. The featured main exhibitions include works by the Symposium Presenters and the Invited Emerging Artists Exhibition, which includes works by 10 emerging artists selected by the Symposium Presenters. Select works from the Arrowmont Permanent Collection will also be featured. Friday evening’s BBQ, live bluegrass & dancing under the stars provides a relaxing and fun event celebrating Smoky Mountain style food and music. A more detailed Symposium agenda listing specific information, speaker/demonstration topics and titles will be sent after registration confirmation. Please continue to view the Symposium website for updated information. A portion of
Figurative Association: The Human Form in Clay has been underwritten by a bequest from the estate of Martha Harrison and through a grant from the Ayco Charitable Foundation.See the website
here for all the details and registration information.
by Carole Epp | Feb 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
GATLINBURG, TN – Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts has announced it will host a figurative sculpture symposium and exhibitions on its Gatlinburg campus from October 27-30, 2010. “Figurative Association: The Human Form in Clay” will feature eight internationally and nationally known ceramic and mixed media artists from six states who use the figure as the main theme in their sculpture. This event grew out of Arrowmont’s successful “Utilitarian Clay: Celebrate the Object” national symposia held every 4 years since 1992. Arrowmont’s rich history as a leader in art and craft education includes hosting international and national media related conferences and symposia over the past 45 years. The symposium is being coordinated by Arrowmont’s Program Director Bill Griffith with assistance from Debra Fritts, a noted Georgia ceramic artist and Arrowmont instructor and Thaddeus Erdahl, current Arrowmont Resident Artist in Ceramics. The artist/presenters include Tom Bartel and Janis Mars Wunderlich from Ohio, Robert Brady, and Arthur Gonzalez from California, Tip Toland and Beth Cavener Stichter from Washington, Lisa Clague from North Carolina and Anne Drew Potter from Indiana. A series of lectures, panel topic discussions, demonstrations and gallery exhibitions will make up the three day symposium. Additionally, each artist/presenter has invited an emerging figurative sculptor of their choice to be represented in the Invited Artists Exhibition, which will be one of the highlights of the event. Arrowmont and Debra Fritts will each also invite an emerging figurative artist to participate. “One vital, educational component of this symposium is the identification of 10 emerging artists in the ceramic sculpture field and the invitation to exhibit their work alongside the highly respected national Presenters Exhibition,” said Arrowmont Program Director Bill Griffith, adding, “This again speaks to Arrowmont’s commitment as a leader in education and support in promoting the careers of the next generation of artists.” For more Symposium details, fees and registration information visit www.arrowmont.org or call (865) 436-5860.
by Carole Epp | Feb 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
“Prototype” will be co-convened by the Victoria and Albert Museum and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design at the University of Dundee, and will explore the radical and multiple ways that creative people are experimenting with ideas. The symposium looks to excite the mind and nurture unusual conversations by presenting a diverse range of perspectives concerned with innovation and ingenuity.
Prototyping is done in many industries – from cars to ceramics, medical equipment to publishing, architects to chefs – but the process, development and understanding for each is different. What can one discipline teach another about prototyping? What place does prototyping hold for scientists, artists, politicians, athletes or business managers? How can prototyping lead these and other disciplines to imagine and re-imagine the future?
This event aims to reduce barriers by generating trans-disciplinary conversations, thus setting the scene for the forging of new partnerships and fresh understandings for contemporary and future craftspeople. We hope to bring together representatives from academia, public and corporate sectors to discuss the history, theory and practice of prototyping, thereby creating a sustainable network of like-minded individuals and organisations that will continue to develop prototyping as a tool for change.
Invited speakers include:
• Michael Schrage, Business Innovator, MIT
• Elizabeth Sanders, Participatory Designer, MakeTools
• Stuart Brown, Biomedical Engineer, University of Dundee
• Norman Klein, Novelist & Cultural Critic, California Institute of the Arts
• Simon Starling, Conceptual Artist
• Pieter Jan Stappers, Design Theorist and Innovator, University of Delft
• Hazel White, Interactive Jeweller, University of Dundee
• Leonardo Bonanni, Architect, Designer, Artist, MIT Media Lab
• Frederic Schwartz, Architectural Historian, University College London
• Constance Adams, Space Travel Architect, Synthesis International
• Rosan Chow, Designer, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories
• Chicks on Speed, Musicians, Artists, Innovators
Prototype – Craft in the Future Tense will be acting as the central focus for Craft Festival Scotland, an ambitious series of nationwide events happening throughout the summer of 2010. “Future Craft”, the theme for Dundee’s contribution to the Festival, will portray the different faces of craft and the different voices it has as a creative practice. It will focus on reviving the way people see craft by initiating a range of public events comprising several major exhibitions, films and workshops which are set to challenge perceptions and profile debates around craft.
The University of Dundee has, for the past two years, been at the forefront of the V&A at Dundee Steering Group, with support from Abertay University, Dundee City Council, Scottish Enterprise and the Scottish government. The project, which aims to establish a presence for the Victoria & Albert Museum at the heart of the city’s waterfront, took a massive step forward in August when Michael Russell MSP, Minister for Culture, External Affairs and the Constitution, announced the Scottish Government’s significant commitment of support. An international architecture competition was launched in January of this year for the £47m centre, financial support for which is expected to come from the Scottish government, philanthropic and corporate sponsors via a charitable trust. As the first V&A base outside of London, V&A at Dundee would aim to provide space in which to showcase Scottish applied arts and design in an international context, act as a focus for debate and dialogue for the creative economy, enhance the creative environment for the benefit of the general public and creative education, and create a platform for partnership working in the cultural sector in Scotland.
We hope you will be able to join us for Prototype – Craft in the Future Tense, and Crafts Festival Scotland, in Dundee this June. Online registration is now open, and more information may be found on the event website, http://www.dundee.ac.uk/djcad/prototyping. Please feel free to forward this email to anyone you feel would be interested in taking part.
For more info:
— Catherine Brown
Prototype: Craft in the Future Tense Symposium Co-ordinator (10-11 June 2010: Registration NOW OPEN!)
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design
University of Dundee
Dundee
DD1 4HT
t: +44 (0) 1382 388829
f: +44 (0) 1382 385363
w: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/djcad/prototyping/
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