Expressive Handbuilt Pottery (C0608)
| Full Course Title | Expressive Handbuilt Pottery (C0608) |
| Dates | Jul 12, 2010 - Jul 23, 2010 |
| Concept | There are infinite ways to use clay slabs to create functional pottery forms. Applying a variety of building techniques, we individualize clay forms into expressive, communicative objects. Create and use paper patterns and textured plaster slab molds and learn alternate ways of making spouts, lids and handles. Then explore possibilities for creating sets. |
| Media & Techniques | We use stoneware and porcelain and fire, for the most part, cone 10 oxidation, either electric or gas. We may also use some red earthenware clay for trivets and caddies, fired to cone 04 electric. Techniques include slab building with soft and stiff slabs, making and using plaster slab molds for texture, making and using clay sprig molds and stamps, and a variety of techniques for making handles, spouts and lids. |
| Activities | Class projects include trivets, basket trays and caddies. We will have daily demonstrations, several slide talks on contemporary and historical pottery forms, a couple of group handbuilding exercises, group discussions and optional assignments. |
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Margaret Bohls is a studio potter and educator who lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She has been teaching ceramics at the University of Minnesota since 1998, during which time she has also been visiting faculty at Ohio University, Penn State University and Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in Halifax. Margaret has also taught many community classes and workshops at art centers and universities across the country |
