David Furman on tue 15 apr 97
Join ceramist David Furman in a five day workshop, July 7-11, 1997 at
Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
This workshop explores the potential of small scale clay sculpture, as
metaphor for biographical/narrative storytelling. We will seek to explore
with uncompromising eyes, life's rituals and rites which may be both
personal and revealing, manifesting these perceptions in low fire clays
and underglazes. Visual historical resources will include slides from the
pre-Colombian past; Peru(Moche & Nazca cultures), Mexican funerary/
anecdotal sculpture(Nayarit, Colima, and Jalisco cultures), and Costa
Rican pottery of the Guanacaste/Nicoya penninsula. We will also visit the
Ron Messick Gallery of pre-Colombian art in Santa Fe, and a field trip to
the Anasazi site of Tsankawi. Participants may be encouraged to also
include journal keeping as part of this five day workshop, which will help
mark space, time, and personal growth. This workshop is open to all skill
levels.
David Furman is an artist and professor at Pitzer College in So.
California, where he has taught since 1973. Since then he's had 32 solo
shows and had his work included in 275 group exhibitions, including the
Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and
the Smithsonian Institution. He's received 3 NEA fellowships(76, 87, 96)
and 2 Fulbright fellowships(79 in Peru; 90 in Costa Rica). He believes
that part of being a good teacher is being an active artist, and he lends
himself as a role model for his students.
For further information, please contact Avra Leodas at Santa Fe Clay,
1615 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM, 87501, or call (505)984-1122.
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