Current Workshops: 2012
Halualoa, Hawaii FULL
February 23-March 2 2012: A weekend demonstration workshop followed by 5 days of hands on studio work with assistance and interaction.
Useful pots made on a wheel serve a specific purpose.Their form, however, contains a world of possibilities. It has been my particular passion to take the thrown pot beyond the wheel, out of round, while holding fast to the restrictions that usefulness imposes. In this workshop I will encourage the exploration of those techniques and ideas: from simple immediate manipulation of the wet pot as it leaves the wheel, to the more forced imposition of form on leather hard clay…. a variety of approaches will be demonstrated .
Information will be shared and progress made through slide presentation, one on one attention, a lot of throwing and group discussion. While throwing we make choices about our work, often unaware…..the rim thick or thin….throwing lines visible or removed …. These decisions, whether made consciously or not, radically affect the overall presence and resolution of the piece.
Conversations about design decisions will encircle every demonstration and effort in the studio.
I want students to come away from this experience jazzed up about the altered pot, with the skills to continue that investigation when they leave. And to have developed a richer vocabulary of self-expression as it manifests itself in the simple pot.
Roanoke, Virginia
June 22-23, 2012: Blue Ridge Potters Guild: this will be a demonstration Workshop where I show different ways in which I make altered forms. Reasons for those decisions and thoughts behind choices are always a large part of the conversation
Certaldo, Italy 2012 FULL
class forming for 2013
September 16-29 2012 2 Weeks in Tuscany. An intensive pottery workshop surrounded by vineyards, hill towns, majolica, wine, food, olive groves, cypress trees, food, church bells in the piazza, eutruscan pottery, food…
click the link at the top of the page to see all the details for our up coming trip.