Instructor: McDonough, Jacqueline

This family activity is perfect for creating personalized holiday ornaments to give as gifts or hang on your own tree. You will have your choice of up to 6 pre-cut bisque fired ornaments to glaze using oxide and glaze on textured surfaces, painting with underglazes and sponge print stamps with matte and shiny surfaces. Fired ornaments will be available for pickup the following week.

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Instructor: Childers, Ian

This is a weekend workshop with renown potter Ian Childers.

Ian will give demonstrations on throwing his forms, glazing, kiln firing and will talk about re-glazing pots for better results. He will also be demonstrating his acid etching technique. Grinding and polishing the bottoms of pots using his Lapping wheel and polishing techniques will be covered extensively. Thank you to sponsors whose contributions help to lower the cost of the workshop.

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Instructor: Mariscal, Josef Marie

This is a weekend workshop with award winning artist Josep Mariscal.

Renown potter, Josep Maria Mariscal travels from Spain to share his dynamic expertise in throwing and crystalline glazing.

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Instructor: McCurdy, Jennifer

“Testing the Limits of Porcelain in Thrown, Altered, and Carved Sculptures”

Jennifer will demonstrate the technique of “dry throwing”, using two metal ribs to create the shape of the piece, after the basic cylinder has been thrown. She will then show how altering and folding that form by hand can add movement and strength. You will see carving techniques on the porcelain when it is leather hard and sanding techniques once the piece is bone dry. The last hour of each day can be devoted to looking at images or actual pieces of each participant’s work, and discussing ways that the these techniques can be individually utilized.
Additional alterations to the piece can occur in the white hot heat of vitrification, and she will discuss strategies to encourage and control slumping in the firing. We will discuss the concept of “strength vs. plasticity” in the porcelain as it moves through the working stages from wet to dry through vitrification. The porcelain Jen uses is Miller #550 by Laguna clay. It fires to cone 10.

Jen has been selling her porcelain in art shows and galleries for the last thirty-five years, and her work is included in the collections of several institutions, including the Smithsonian Renwick Gallery in Washington, DC, the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY, and the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, CA. She maintains a studio in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts. Her focus on the reflective and bone-like quality of the bare porcelain has led her to explore the light and shadow of the clay forms, resulting in a unique melding of line and structure. She is looking forward to sharing some of the tricks she has learned along the way – tricks of the trade, and tricks of porcelain. www.jennifermccurdy.com.

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