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  1. POTTERS COUNCIL CONFERENCE HANDBUILDING II February 3-5, 2012 San Diego, California Hosted by Get Centered Clay and Jackson Gray Creative, Knowledgeable, Talented, and Engaging Creative, knowledgeable, talented and engaging describe these experienced presenters participating in the Handbuilding II conference. This not-to-be-missed conference brings together a diverse group of ceramic artists to demonstrate, share, and answer any question you may have on handbuilding and the techniques they use. This conference will help you build upon existing skills and learn new techniques that you can apply to your own studio work. Register today for your chance to learn from Hayne Bayless, Joseph Pintz, Sandi Pierantozzi and Amy Sanders. http://ceramicartsdaily.org/potters-council/handbuilding-ii/
  2. From the album: Handbuilding II | San Diego, CA | February 3-5, 2012

    POTTERS COUNCIL CONFERENCE HANDBUILDING II February 3-5, 2012 San Diego, California Hosted by Get Centered Clay and Jackson Gray[/url] Creative, Knowledgeable, Talented, and Engaging Creative, knowledgeable, talented and engaging describe these experienced presenters participating in the Handbuilding II conference. This not-to-be-missed conference brings together a diverse group of ceramic artists to demonstrate, share, and answer any question you may have on handbuilding and the techniques they use. This conference will help you build upon existing skills and learn new techniques that you can apply to your own studio work. Register today for your chance to learn from Hayne Bayless, Joseph Pintz, Sandi Pierantozzi and Amy Sanders. http://ceramicartsdaily.org/potters-council/handbuilding-ii/

    © Amy Sanders

  3. From the album: Handbuilding II | San Diego, CA | February 3-5, 2012

    POTTERS COUNCIL CONFERENCE HANDBUILDING II February 3-5, 2012 San Diego, California Hosted by Get Centered Clay and Jackson Gray[/url] Creative, Knowledgeable, Talented, and Engaging Creative, knowledgeable, talented and engaging describe these experienced presenters participating in the Handbuilding II conference. This not-to-be-missed conference brings together a diverse group of ceramic artists to demonstrate, share, and answer any question you may have on handbuilding and the techniques they use. This conference will help you build upon existing skills and learn new techniques that you can apply to your own studio work. Register today for your chance to learn from Hayne Bayless, Joseph Pintz, Sandi Pierantozzi and Amy Sanders. http://ceramicartsdaily.org/potters-council/handbuilding-ii/

    © Sandi Pierantozzi

  4. From the album: Handbuilding II | San Diego, CA | February 3-5, 2012

    POTTERS COUNCIL CONFERENCE HANDBUILDING II February 3-5, 2012 San Diego, California Hosted by Get Centered Clay and Jackson Gray[/url] Creative, Knowledgeable, Talented, and Engaging Creative, knowledgeable, talented and engaging describe these experienced presenters participating in the Handbuilding II conference. This not-to-be-missed conference brings together a diverse group of ceramic artists to demonstrate, share, and answer any question you may have on handbuilding and the techniques they use. This conference will help you build upon existing skills and learn new techniques that you can apply to your own studio work. Register today for your chance to learn from Hayne Bayless, Joseph Pintz, Sandi Pierantozzi and Amy Sanders. http://ceramicartsdaily.org/potters-council/handbuilding-ii/

    © Joseph Pintz

  5. From the album: Handbuilding II | San Diego, CA | February 3-5, 2012

    POTTERS COUNCIL CONFERENCE HANDBUILDING II February 3-5, 2012 San Diego, California Hosted by Get Centered Clay and Jackson Gray[/url] Creative, Knowledgeable, Talented, and Engaging Creative, knowledgeable, talented and engaging describe these experienced presenters participating in the Handbuilding II conference. This not-to-be-missed conference brings together a diverse group of ceramic artists to demonstrate, share, and answer any question you may have on handbuilding and the techniques they use. This conference will help you build upon existing skills and learn new techniques that you can apply to your own studio work. Register today for your chance to learn from Hayne Bayless, Joseph Pintz, Sandi Pierantozzi and Amy Sanders. http://ceramicartsdaily.org/potters-council/handbuilding-ii/

    © Hayne Bayless

  6. FUNCTIONAL CERAMICS + BEYOND September 23-25, 2011 Indianapolis, Indiana Hosted by AMACO/brent http://ceramicartsdaily.org/potters-council/functional-ceramics-beyond/ Featured Artists: Tom Lucas, Brooke Noble, Don Reitz, Nan Rothwell, McKenzie Smith and AMACO® Technical and Professional Ceramic Artist staff. Functional is Beautiful Making functional pots is challenging, inspiring and satisfying. Where else can you enjoy something from the moment you start to make it, and each time you use it? Whether you’re serving cool drinks from a pitcher, soup in a bowl or fruit on a platter, functional pieces complement your food and reveal your sense of style. Each of our presenters have developed their own functional style–some steeped in tradition and others going a step beyond. No matter how simple or utilitarian, this conference takes you past the every day function of a piece by paying tribute to the elegant union between surface and form.
  7. From the album: Functional Ceramics + Beyond | Potters Council Conference

    Read more about the Conference go here: http://ceramicartsdaily.org/potters-council/functional-ceramics-beyond/ MCKENZIE SMITH Clay, Form, Slip, Glaze For this demonstration McKenzie will focus on the making of wheel thrown functional ware exploring a variety of forms including thrown and altered pots. He will demonstrate a number of decorating techniques including the use of slips, wax and glaze. Additional Information: McKenzie Smith is a potter working in Florida. McKenzie worked as a Core Student at the Penland School of Crafts. He received his BFA from the University of South Florida and his MFA from the University of Florida. Residencies include the Archie Bray Foundation, Banff Center For The Arts, Baltimore Clayworks, and the University of Miami. Smith has exhibited widely and taught numerous workshops. The pottery McKenzie produces is made in stoneware clay and he is influenced by folk traditions. His aim is to make functional pots that are lively and show the natural beauty of clay and fire. McKenzie is drawn to wood, salt/soda firing because of the rich effects these firings techniques have on his clay, slips and the glazes. The element of chance is very much a part of these atmospheric firing techniques and brings to play a deep connection between tending the fire and the work within. McKenzie is hoping that these elements in combination produce ware that has a warm essence and gives pleasure in use.
  8. From the album: Functional Ceramics + Beyond | Potters Council Conference

    Read more about the Conference go here: http://ceramicartsdaily.org/potters-council/functional-ceramics-beyond/ NAN ROTHWELL Playing with Thrown Forms; Stretching Your Comfort Zone Starting with wheel-thrown components, Nan will demonstrate multiple ways to alter their shapes and add texture. Techniques will include faceting with a wiggle wire while the wheel is stationary and moving, creating square and oval forms, and stretching a surface that has been dried with cornstarch to create a parched-earth texture. Nan will show you a number of ways to step outside your comfort zone and work larger, including how to center larger amounts of clay in stages, and how to grow a pot by adding then throwing successive rings of clay. You will come away from the demo with an expanded sense of what is possible on the wheel, in shapes, textures and sizes. Additional Information: Nan has been potting since 1969, working in salt glaze and cone ten reduction firing. Her pots are made to be used — to enhance the rituals of preparing and eating food, to hold flowers, to light a corner for reading. Making functional work connects her to the age-old powerful tradition of artist craftsmen who make beautiful objects for daily use. After all these years, Nan enjoys every aspect of making pottery, especially throwing and firing. The alchemy of transforming soft clay into finished pots continues to excite and inspire her. After initial training in England and Ireland, Nan now works in rural Virginia. Instead of the multiple repetition of her early production, she now works in short series of related but not identical pots. In the past several years, Nan has expanded beyond small domestic ware to include larger forms. Coming to this fairly late in her potting career has meant having to learn techniques that compensate for the physical effects of aging – working in stages, using softer clay, & etc. Nan looks forward to sharing some of those tricks and techniques at the conference. She had wonderful, generous teachers as a young potter, and welcomes the opportunity to pass the favor on. Her love of teaching is hardly altruistic — Nan finds it valuable, as it forces her to examine processes and visual decisions. Having to explain keeps her questioning why she does things a certain way. Nan tries new techniques and forms as she respond to her students’ queries. Teaching is an exhilarating exchange – one that challenges her set ways of doing things. As someone who has made pots in relative rural isolation for many years, Nan is especially grateful for the chance to get out of her driveway and present at conferences and workshops – always sources of new energy and ideas.
  9. From the album: Functional Ceramics + Beyond | Potters Council Conference

    Read More about the conference go here: http://ceramicartsdaily.org/potters-council/functional-ceramics-beyond/ DON REITZ All You Wanted to Know About Ceramics, but Couldn’t Find a Teacher to Tell You Don will be using the vessel form as a jumping off point for the personal expression of the potter by utilizing different wheel throwing techniques, decorating with slips and AMACO Velvets, glazing processes, and creating special effects on your work by stacking and creative firing. Don will also demonstrate throwing larger on the wheel, show several painting techniques on slab work, and will discuss woodfiring and salt glazing. Additional Information: Artist Statement: The search for artistic expression never goes away. It is a continuation of experiences that have led me to this particular point in my career. Because of recent physical restrictions I am no longer able to do large sculptures and throw a ton of clay over the weekend by myself, which I truly enjoyed doing. It is a natural evolution for me to revert back to my painting skills and working with color to counter the extreme discomfort of physical exertion. This is not the first time I have made full circle, in the early 80’s during the Sara Series; color was a means of diverting pain into pleasure. I enjoy the “color†of wood firing and the firing process. Now I have combined the three things I love in my art color, form, and physical activity. I have been able to develop a pallet of bright colors that are muted by the wood fire at cone 13, using my slips, and clay bodies. The triptychs are naturally a carryover from my abstract expressionism days as a painter in the early 50’s. I love the action and physical activity of throwing color around, and the ability to add to, abstract from, bend, alter, and tear my canvas. Clay is wonderful; there are no limits to this medium. I’m looking forward to a long period of working with wood firing, bright colors, painting and sculpture. Thanks to my two assistants I can do a body of work again. I always remember there are no rules, only concepts.
  10. From the album: Functional Ceramics + Beyond | Potters Council Conference

    Read more about the conference: http://ceramicartsdaily.org/potters-council/functional-ceramics-beyond/ BROOKE NOBLE Pictorial Porcelain: Enhancing the Surface with Pattern, Design, and Personal Narrative Brooke’s demonstration will include various ways in which to make forms as well as an array of ways to excite the surface with several decorative techniques being shown and exercised by those who attend. Participants will gain a new vocabulary of skills and technique and take home ideas on how to develop and expand on their own personal style. The presentation of methods will focus on enhancing the ceramic surface through a variety of techniques. Participants will learn how to add interest and voice to the surface of functional pots and other porcelain forms. Methods of creating forms will be discussed and shown are: simple wheel throwing, wet hand-building on the wheel head, soft-slab construction, slip-casting, and a coil-building/pinching technique used to create texture. By employing various ways of making, Brooke will create forms with which to embellish the surface, and practice several decoration techniques. These techniques include: mishima, sgraffito, thermofax “screen-printingâ€, shellac resist, slip trailing, plaster image transfer, the use of text and font, using templates for slip application, as well as some glazing tips. Conversation about design choices, composition, and the inclusion of narrative as a vehicle for personal messages will be encouraged. Hands On: Participants will practice some of the demonstrated techniques by decorating blank porcelain tiles using carving tools, colored slips and underglazes, type-font, and screened imagery. Additional Information: Brooke Noble (b. 1979) received her B.F.A. from Syracuse University and attended Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, Illinois for her M.F.A. Between degrees, she was a resident artist at three studio art centers: Vermont Clay Studio, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, (CO.) and Bluseed Studios of Saranac Lake, NY. Ceramics has taken Noble to many destinations both nationally and internationally in an exchange to both learn and teach ceramic techniques. Highlights for her include kiln-building at Good Hope Plantation in Jamaica and Studying Abroad in Oaxaca State, Mexico during Graduate School. Brooke’s work has been exhibited in numerous reputable galleries nationwide and has been published in books and periodicals. She has been an active volunteer for the NCECA organization and has received artists’ grants and awards for her research in the clay medium. In addition, she enjoys teaching classes and workshops to both adults and children in the Adirondack communities of Saranac Lake and Lake Placid, NY as well as traveling nationally to Art Centers and Academic Institutions to share in her experience.
  11. From the album: Functional Ceramics + Beyond | Potters Council Conference

    Read more about conference: http://ceramicartsdaily.org/potters-council/functional-ceramics-beyond/ TOM LUCAS The Printer and The Potter Tom will demonstrate a true printmaking approach to surface decoration on clay with a focus on how images can be transferred onto functional forms. Using printmaking techniques such as lithography, screenprinting and relief, he will discuss the unique ways to get everything from text, drawing and photographic images onto to the clay surface. Highlighting the printed images on clay with transparent glazes and wax-resist will bring together the best of what the print shop has to offer to the clay studio. There will be a discussion about the pros and cons with printmaking techniques on green ware as apposed to bisque. Clay bodies with a low grog composition work the best to transfer images so a range of clay bodies can be used. Many of the modified underglazes work to cone 10. These processes work with a basic modification of Amaco underglazes, engobes and glaze from both dry and wet states. In order for them to possess the qualities of printing “inkâ€, Tom will discuss the variations between oil-based and water-based mediums used in making the inks for pulling prints onto clay. Hands On: Conference attendees will get the opportunity to print images onto clay tiles utilizing some of the demonstrated printmaking approaches. Additional Information: Tom is an artist, educator and master printer who in addition, has been working with clay for the last 15 years. His work incorporates materials and imagery that reflect his memories and experiences. The goal is to communicate the past the present and the future in his work simultaneously. He is the Director of the Printmaking Department at the Lillstreet Art Center and founder and master printer for Hummingbird Press L.A.C. also housed at Lillstreet in Chicago. Tom has taught classes and workshops at Penland School of Crafts, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Anchor Graphics at Columbia College Chicago, and SkopArt in Skopelos, Greece.
  12. It’s all in the Details! 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. Featured Artists: Melisa Cadell, Fong Choo, Molly Hatch, Kathy King, Tom Meuninck, and AMACO® Technical and Professional Ceramic Artist staff.
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