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Clay Summer 2009 Classes are open to serious students of all levels unless specified in course description; beginners welcome. Session 1 May 24 - June 5 Chuck Hindes & Ron Meyers - Loosen Up This is a class about making useful pots, cups, bowls, jars, bottles, etc., in a casual and gestural manner using both stoneware and earthenware clays. We will explore the potential of firing at various temperatures in atmospheric kilns such as wood, salt, and soda. There will be daily demonstrations, clay conversations, and slide shows. Basic wheelthrowing skills required. Code 01ca Chuck: Professor emeritus from University of Iowa; NEA Fellowship; collections: Renwick Gallery (DC), Everson Museum of Art (NY), St. Louis Museum of Art.
Chuck Hindes 
Ron Meyers 
MaPo Kinnord-Payton MaPo Kinnord-Payton - Positively Negative This workshop will focus on paper-clay handbuilding techniques that promote playful ventures into negative space. The class will include exercises in designing and engineering large organic forms that visually incorporate open spaces. Completed bisque-fired works will become canvasses for layers of unfired painting and drawing. All levels, but some clay experience will be helpful. Code 01cb Associate professor at Xavier University (New Orleans); other teaching: NOLA Fired Up (New Orleans), Haystack (ME); director of Ghana Project, a cultural arts program on the traditional pottery and ceramic architecture of Northern Ghana. Session 2 June 7 - June 19 
Ayumi Horie Ayumi Horie - Make Good Work & Get It Out There Learn what's involved in being a studio potter today. Through studio work, slide shows, and Internet presentations, we will explore making and marketing pots. Working with low-fire, earthenware clay, studio exercises will emphasize dry throwing, in which a pot is hollowed out rather than pulled up with water, along with independent projects and critiques. Beyond the studio, we will examine trends in contemporary pottery, explore niches in the design and craft worlds, and look at online tools to help market and disseminate our work. Intermediate level; basic wheelthrowing and clay skills required. Code 02ca Studio potter; teaching: Haystack (ME), Arrowmont (TN), Greenwich House Pottery (NYC); Archie Bray Foundation residency. 
Debra Fritts Debra Fritts - Allowing the Figure to Speak This workshop will explore figurative sculpture using basic handbuilding techniques. The class will include detailed technical information on facial features and proportions. Sessions with a live model will help students see and express the gesture of the figure. Found object impressions, mark making, and carving in wet clay will help develop surface and story. We will work with earthenware and multiple electric firings. Decoration techniques will include a painterly approach to slips, oxide, underglazes, and glazes. Studio artist and director of clay program at Art Center West (GA); exhibitions: Santa Fe Clay, SOFA New York, Blue Spiral I (NC), American Museum of Ceramic Art. Session 3 June 21 - July 3 
Daniel Johnston Daniel Johnston - Thai Jar Construction Techniques This class will concentrate on large jar construction using a technique unique to Northeast Thailand. This coiling technique offers the skills needed to produce large jars efficiently and will allow the artist to execute their own ideas for large vessels. We will discuss clay composition and glazing techniques. Students will be able to use handmade wooden wheels from the Thai village of Phon Bok. The coiling technique is challenging at first, so the class will emphasize skill development over finished work. Stoneware clay; wood firing. All levels. Code 03ca Studio potter; apprenticed to Mark Hewitt (NC), Clive Bowen (England), Sawein Silakhom (Thailand); exhibitions: North Carolina Pottery Center, Mint Museum of Craft + Design (NC). 
IlaSahai Prouty IlaSahai Prouty - Teaching with Clay This workshop will explore how clay can be used to teach academic content in any subject area and rejuvenate your approach to teaching. Through a series of adaptable clay projects, we will explore ways to address classroom content at all levels. Themes will vary according to suggestions made by the group and by the material. Problem solving and collaboration will be central to our work. Bring playful, open-minded, inquisitive thinking. Take home a series of projects for your classroom. All levels. Code 03cb Adjunct faculty at Appalachian State University (NC); former chair of art department at the Waring School (MA); 15 years' experience teaching middle and high school; exhibitions: Asheville Art Museum (NC), Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (NC); former Penland resident artist. Session 4 July 5 - July 17 
James C. Watkins James C. Watkins - Raku, Sagger, & Throwing Large The focus of this class is raku and sagger firing. I will also help students address the technical issues involved in large-scale throwing. Demonstrations and topics will include large platters, double-walled vessels, pit firing, and sagger firing in a carbon-trapping metal container. We will also cover surface decoration and discuss ways of using the physical environment as creative inspiration. Basic throwing skills required. Code 04ca Professor at Texas Tech University; collections: White House Craft Collection (DC), Shigaraki Institute of Ceramic Studies (Japan); books: A Meditation of Fire: The Art of James C. Watkins and Alternative Kilns & Firing Techniques. 
Hayne Bayless Hayne Bayless - The Joy of Handbuilding Find out how the extruder and slab roller can influence your approach to functional clay. Explore unconventional forming methods and unusual surface decoration using a repertoire of techniques, such as stretched slabs and slip inlay. Make your own hand tools and modify existing tools to suit your needs. Learn how to make custom extruder dies--it's easier than you think. Stoneware clay; cone-10 reduction firing. Studio artist; Watershed residency (ME); exhibitions: Smithsonian Craft Show (DC), Philadelphia Museum Craft Show, Old Church Invitational (NJ), Minnesota Potters Tour; gallery representation: AKAR (IA), Blue Heron (ME), Ferrin (MA); work published in Studio Potter and New Ceramics (Germany). Session 5 July 19 - August 4 
Posey Bacopoulos Posey Bacopoulos - Thrown & Altered Majolica This workshop will focus on making pots using earthenware clay and majolica decoration. We will throw, alter, and assemble forms to make a variety of different functional pots. Discussions and demonstrations will feature majolica, a glaze and decorating tradition that began in the Middle East in the ninth century. Using this information, we will explore the relationship between form and surface decoration in our work. Studio potter; teacher of majolica workshops nationally; work exhibited nationally and internationally; work published in Ceramic Design Book, Best of Pottery 2, and The Art of Contemporary American Pottery by Kevin A. Hluch. 
Angelica Pozo Angelica Pozo - What a Relief! Relief tiles: a delight to the sight and a pleasure to the touch. After starting with basic tile-making methods, we will venture off the flat tile plane into the third dimension, from shallow to ultra-deep relief with a variety of additive and subtractive sculpting techniques. We will explore glaze and decorating choices for enhancing dimensional texture as well as tile mold-making and installation procedures. All levels. Code 05cb Studio artist; recent commissions: Buckeye Park (Cleveland), Quincy Park (Cleveland); collections: Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), Canton Museum of Art (OH); author of the book Making and Installing Handmade Tile and a chapter in the Penland Book of Ceramics.
Session 6 August 9 - August 21 
Jack Troy Jack Troy - Hand, Clay, Fire, Spirit This class will focus on the rhythms of the studio punctuated by discussions of processes and personal goals. We will juggle what we know with our willingness to court risk in our quest for discovery. We will emphasize wheelthrown functional forms using stone-ware and porcelain clays fired in Penland's large two-chamber wood kiln, its soda kiln, and its venerable salt kiln. All levels. Code 06ca Studio artist; teacher of over 180 workshops, author of "Salt Glazed Ceramics" and "Woodfired Stoneware and Porcelain." 
Susan Halls Susan Halls - Animal Sculpture: New Approaches This class will introduce a variety of exciting approaches to animal sculpture. Techniques play an important role in subject interpretation so we will employ a whole range of them: pinch, coil, slab, dowel construction, and minimal throwing. We will discuss basic animal anatomy and apply this to our work. Students will be encouraged to work in a variety of scales. Finishing techniques will include raku and smoke firing. Stoneware clay. Studio artist; teaching: Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), Kent Institute of Art and Design (UK), Royal College of Art (London); collections: Campbell's Soup Tureen Museum (Philadelphia), Royal College of Art (London), Sackler Foundation (London), Victoria and Albert Museum (London). Session 7 August 23 - August 29 
Steven Forbes-deSoule Steven Forbes-deSoule - The Art of Raku Using bisqueware brought from home and pieces made during the first day of the class, students will explore aspects of the art of raku, including developing, mixing, and testing new glazes, firing options, kiln construction, and safety. We will also use alternative materials such as stained glass and glass rods. Studio artist; teaching: Agnes Scott College (GA), Callanwolde Fine Art Center (Atlanta), Odyssey Center (NC), Campbell Folk School (NC), Arrowmont (TN); gallery representation: Blue Spiral I (NC), Carolina Clay Gallery (NC). Jeff Zamek - From Calculation to Fired Glaze 
Jeff Zamek This class is designed to take students of any skill level from simple glaze calculations to firing a series of glazes at various temperature ranges and kiln atmospheres. The characteristics of each raw material used in glazes will be discussed and demonstrated. Students will be involved in applying and firing their own formulas resulting in a shared range of glazes for functional and sculptural ceramics. We will be firing test tiles only. Studio artist and proprietor of Ceramics Consulting Services; author of "What Every Potter Should Know" and "Safety in the Ceramics Studio"; regular contributor to Ceramics Monthly, Pottery Making Illustrated, Pottery Production Practices, Clay Times, Studio Potter. Studio artist and proprietor of Ceramics Consulting Services. |
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