Frank Gaydos on mon 1 mar 99
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Here are the Ceramics offerings from Peters Valley Workshops this summer:
Contact www.pvcrafts.org
Peters Valley Craft Education Center
1999 Ceramics Workshops
Courses are listed in order of dates offered, for information on the
instructors go to the faculty biographies page .
Pinch Pots and Pit Firing: Ancient Methods for Modern Times
Raku
Functional Pottery: The Basics and Beyond
New Ways of Thinking of Form
What and How: Exploring the Dialogue between Idea and Process
Expressive Forms
17th Century English Slipware Pottery
Quiet Beauty/Strong Pots
Pots
Handmade Relief Tiles
Porcelain Pots: Approaches to Form and Surface Treatment
Pottery: A Guide through Simplicity
Building on a Personally Derived Sculptural Vocabulary
Porcelain and Shino: Mastering the Materials
Paper Clay
Printing with Colored Clay
For more information on class availability, phone us at (973) 948-5200, fax
us at (973) 948-0011, or e-mail us at pv=40warwick.net. You can register by
filling out the Course Registration Form and faxing it to us at (973)
948-0011 or Mail it to us. The workshop application is also available in
PDF format on our FTP site.
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Pinch Pots and Pit Firing: Ancient Methods for Modern Times
Jimmy Clark
May 21-25 (5 days)
This course will provide both a technical and philosophical approach to the
pinch technique and primitive firing methods. We will explore variations of
pinching, including creating larger forms, producing a variety of vessels
and shapes, burnishing and applying terra sigillata. We will fire the work
in a slowburning, overnight sawdust firing. The course is designed to combat
the misconception that pinching is a beginner=92s technique. Beginner to
advanced.
Tuition: =24380.00 Lab Fee: =2445.00
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Raku
Mike Carroll
May 28-31 (4 days)
White hot pots, molten shimmering glazes, burning straw, and smoldering
sawdust....In this workshop we will take you and your bisque ware through
the raku process. We will construct a modern raku kiln from scratch and use
a variety of glazes on your bisque ware. Mike Carroll will share his ideas
on the process and discuss past successes and failures. Raku can be an
exciting first-time learning experience or a stimulating interlude from a
hectic studio schedule. Beginner to intermediate.
Tuition: =24312.00 Lab Fee: =2445.00
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Functional Pottery: The Basics and Beyond
Susan Beecher
June 4-9 (6 days)
This workshop will cover the basic techniques of throwing useful pots on the
wheel and focus on form and surface. We will move on to explore various
altering techniques for oval pots, casseroles, and squared boxes:
construction variations, thrown forms, specially cut feet, and throwing
double-lipped bowls and platters. Participants will be encouraged to discuss
and develop their own creative ideas. Beginner to advanced.
Tuition: =24420.00 Lab Fee: =2445.00
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New Ways of Thinking of Form
Robin Johnson
June 11-16 (6 days)
This workshop, using both hand-building and wheel, will begin with exercises
to generate new ideas on form. We will then examine these initial concepts
and move on to expand them throughout the workshop. We will discuss the
character of certain forms, the role of size, and the relationships of parts
to the whole and to a series. Intermediate to advanced.
Tuition: =24420.00 Lab Fee: =2445.00
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What and How: Exploring the Dialogue between Idea and Process
Mary Barringer
June 18-23 (6 days)
This handbuilding workshop will begin with exercises to generate new ideas
and forms and go on to examine the role of process, repetition, and drawing
in developing those initial sparks. We will touch on some particulars of
form - volume, gesture, and the relationship of part - and address surface
strategies, particularly the use of slips, engobes, and electric kilns.
Intermediate to advanced.
Tuition: =24420.00 Lab Fee: =2445.00
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Expressive Forms
David G. Wright
June 25-29 (5 days)
This workshop is for the adventurous who want to try different methods,
explore new ideas, and find unique solutions to creating domestic ware. A
variety of hand-built and wheelthrown techniques will be demonstrated.
Participants will be invited to exchange ideas and viewpoints about the
creative process and their involvement in clay. Intermediate.
Tuition: =24380.00 Lab Fee: =2445.00
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17th Century English Slipware Pottery
Irma Starr
July 2-7 (6 days)
Seventeenth century folk pottery slipware techniques of marbling,
feathering, combing, and slip-trailing, as well as Han Dynasty
sheet-marbling, will be explored in this workshop. These unusual and
beautiful forms of slip decoration may be applied to earthenware clay as
well as to highfired stoneware or porcelain. The workshop will assist
students in developing a highly personal sense of how to apply these
processes to their own contemporary work. Participants can expect to gain a
proper understanding of how to prepare and use slips. Beginner to advanced.
Tuition: =24420.00 Lab Fee: =2445.00
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Quiet Beauty/Strong Pots
Robert Briscoe
July 9-13 (5 days)
This workshop will consist of hands-on throwing and alteringon and off the
wheel. The focus will be on articulating simple forms to produce subtle,
dynamic pots. We will discuss variations on themes, critical analysis of
form, and surface/form integration through the use of slip and glaze.
Intermediate to advanced.
Tuition: =24380.00 Lab Fee: =2445.00
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Pots
Ben Culbertson
July 16-21 (6 days)
This workshop is ideal for any level of student. Beginners will learn to
throw pots by the very first day=21 More advanced students will learn how to
throw taller, make pots with multiple parts, alter shapes, and combine
thrown forms with handbuilt components. Glazing and firing will also be
covered. Students will receive information, demonstrations and one-on-one
attention. Beginner to advanced.
Tuition: =24420.00 Lab Fee: =2445.00
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Handmade Relief Tiles
Ben Culbertson
July 23-27 (5 days)
Create your own unique tiles. Using a variety of methods, students will
create original plaster molds from which multiple relief tiles can be
pressed. Mosaic tile design will also be demonstrated along with setting and
grouting. This, along with special techniques such as smoke-firing,
underglaze washes and book-matched tiles, make for a very comprehensive
workshop. Beginner to advanced.
Tuition: =24380.00 Lab Fee: =2460.00
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Porcelain Pots: Approaches to Form and Surface Treatment
Alan Willoughby and Linda Shusterman
July 30 - August 4 (6 days)
This workshop will explore the making and decorating of functional pots and
the ideas behind the pots. An emphasis will be placed upon throwing,
altering, and assembling wheelthrown forms. Both wheelthrown and
handbuilding techniques will be demonstrated for lids, spouts, handles, and
bases. Decoration will include discussions on the relationship of form and
surface, and include a wide variety of techniques. The focus will be on the
development of a personal vision and statement in clay. Intermediate to
advanced.
Tuition: =24420.00 Lab Fee: =2445.00
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Pottery: A Guide through Simplicity
Lynn Munns
August 6-10 (5 days)
This workshop is for anyone who wants to learn how to make pottery or is
interested in making their pots speak volumes about experience: personal,
material, or process oriented. Participants will learn varying techniques of
making and forming while being guided through an understanding of how to
analyze and criticize their own work. The course will also provide for a
dynamic revisiting of the foot, lip, lid, spout, and handle through
demonstrations, one-on-one instruction, group discussions, and slides.
Beginner to advanced.
Tuition: =24380.00 Lab Fee: =2460.00
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Building on a Personally Derived Sculptural Vocabulary
Bruce Dehnert
August 13-17 (5 days)
This workshop will be an intensive five days of identifying personally
relevant issues and exploring ways of thinking about and inventing a
sculptural vocabulary applicable to one=92s own work. Open to anyone who =
works
sculpturally in clay or who has ever wanted to, students will be introduced
to ways of experimenting, working, and thinking, and techniques for
constructing forms, building surfaces, and firing. Beginner to advanced.
Tuition: =24380.00 Lab Fee: =2460.00
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Porcelain and Shino: Mastering the Materials
Malcolm Davis
August 20-29 (10 days)
This workshop will explore the demands and possibilities of two of the
potter=92s most difficult materials. We will work together through
demonstrations and exercises to create lively pots for daily use and
celebration. Advanced.
Tuition: =24600.00 Lab Fee: =2460.00
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Paper Clay
Rosette Gault
September 3-7 (5 days)
This workshop offers students an opportunity to explore the many dimensions
of paper clay and become familiar with =22new possibilities=22. Porcelain,
stoneware, earthenware, terra cotta, and raku clays can be transformed in
unimaginable ways. Applications include abstract and figurative sculpture,
design prototypes, hand or wheelformed vessels, tiles, wall murals, and
more. Additional topics will include armatures, casting, carving, modeling,
printing, and glazes. Intermediate to advanced.
Tuition: =24380.00 Lab Fee: =2450.00
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Printing with Colored Clay
Mitch Lyons
September 10-14 (5 days)
Students will learn to mix colored clay slips and apply these slips to a
leatherhard slab of stoneware clay. Innovative processes are used to pull
monoprints from the clay matrix. The =22plate=22 can then be used to form
ceramic shapes and be fired. Beginner to advanced.
Tuition: =24380.00 Lab Fee: =2450.00
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=22I=92m called a =22repeat offender=92 and I=92m proud. Another excellent =
workshop. I
=92ll be back next weekend.=22 =22Ceramics student
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Frank Gaydos
510 Gerritt St.
Philadelphia,Pa.
19147-5821 USA
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