Ceramics
Jun 07, 2010 - Jun 18, 2010
Doug Casebeer
Pelusa Rosenthal
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Making Pots that Work
Investigate a variety of forms and shapes that speak to your personal language of pottery making. We develop technical skills for good pottery making and new ways to think about pottery. Delve into your own artistic potential with the central question: How can I make my pottery my own? ...more
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Jun 07, 2010 - Jun 11, 2010
Jeanne Quinn
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Volumes in Volumes: the practice of ceramic installation
Ceramicists shape space, traditionally by making vessels. Contemporary ceramicists are exploring installation, working with relationships between multiple objects. Explore systems to make multiples and strategies to construct meaning through their arrangement. Key questions are: How do we construct an object that holds its significance as a multiple? How do we creatively combine the content of an object and the context of an installation? How does the material of ceramics work with other media to create meaning? ...more
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Jun 14, 2010 - Jun 25, 2010
Debra Fritts
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So Much More than the Figure
Explore the figure in sculpture with basic handbuilding techniques. "See" and understand the gesture and form of the figure by modeling quick studies during several sessions with a model. Connect the sculpture and the maker with your personal and narrative interpretations, pulling the viewer into the work. We demonstrate and practice detailed technical information on face features and proportions and investigate surface treatments on wet clay with slips, underglazes, dry clays and mark-making. ...more
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Jun 21, 2010 - Jul 02, 2010
Jason Hess
Ted Adler
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Throwing & Altering Forms for Wood & Soda Firing
Expand the potential of your ceramic work with an intensive look into wood and soda fire process. Investigate contemporary form and its relationship to the firing process, learning how and why vapor (wood and soda) kilns affect form. Discussions focus on craftsmanship, aesthetics and finding your own voice with clay. We also cover kiln design and ceramic material choices appropriate to firing processes. ...more
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Jul 05, 2010 - Jul 16, 2010
Frank Martin
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Midrange Pots with Electric Color
Learn strategies and techniques for working on the potter's wheel in this hands-on workshop. Express your personal vision with an assortment of methods Frank has developed for making wheel-thrown and altered pottery for the electric kiln. The glaze lab is integral to the process as we aim to get the most color from commercial ceramic stains and traditional oxides for midrange (cone 4-7) oxidation. We test a full range of glaze and under-glaze formulas in the electric firing process. ...more
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Jul 05, 2010 - Jul 09, 2010
Kathy Butterly
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Once Ain't Enough: a focus on glazing
Glaze can make a piece look wonderful or it can totally ruin it. This workshop expands our understanding of this exciting and seductive material through multiple firings, glaze combos, under- and over-firing glazes and added materials. We work with low-fire clay and commercial glazes, beginning with test tiles and then applying our new techniques to student-produced pieces. We focus on sculptural pieces not to be used with food. ...more
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Jul 12, 2010 - Jul 23, 2010
Margaret Bohls
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Expressive Handbuilt Pottery
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. ...more
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Jul 19, 2010 - Jul 30, 2010
Peter Pinnell
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Pottery: making and glazing
Which is harder: finding the right glaze for a pot or the right pot for a particular glaze? In this workshop we work on common questions of personal development while focusing on the best surfaces for your work (textures, slips and glazes) and new ways to fabricate pots and pottery parts (form, lids, handles, spouts, feet). Working together, we discover new techniques for creating all the interesting detail that makes an ordinary pot something special. ...more
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Aug 02, 2010 - Aug 13, 2010
Doug Casebeer
Ralph Scala
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Open Studio: ceramic concentration - NEW!
This workshop will be an opportunity to further your ceramic skills whether it be throwing, hand building, firing kilns or glaze technology. Doug and Ralph will be available to discuss projects and give demonstrations upon request. Content will be driven individually by workshop participants. ...more
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Aug 09, 2010 - Aug 20, 2010
Andrea Gill
John Gill
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Handbuilt Vessels
Focus on handbuilding to make vessels and pots as John shares his exceptional approach to building and glazing. Andrea adds her expertise to patterning and layering glazes. Elevate the quality and content of your work with these experienced and generous teachers. ...more
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Aug 09, 2010 - Aug 13, 2010
Rebecca Hutchinson
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Paper Clay Sculpture
Investigate paper clay as a sculptural medium. We demonstrate clay preparation, building techniques, surface and color, and firing and non-firing options, all to achieve qualities of translucency, weightlessness and sculpture-building ease. We emphasize technique and idea development and encourage individual ideas and conceptual directions. ...more
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Aug 16, 2010 - Aug 20, 2010
Tom Coleman
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All Around Porcelain
Work with numerous aspects of porcelain as we demonstrate throwing, functional forms, thrown and altered sculptural pieces, and surface decoration with porcelain slips and glazes. We discuss spraying glazes, overlapping glaze surfaces, porcelain clay bodies and glaze formulas. We demonstrate large thrown section forms if there is sufficient interest. ...more
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Aug 23, 2010 - Sep 03, 2010
Alleghany Meadows
Sam Harvey
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Exploring Forms & Surfaces with Earthenware
Explore forms through wheel throwing and coil building. Projects cover a range of forms including covered jars, pitchers, bowls, teapots and plates. The focus of this workshop will be on using the simplest of techniques to create an infinite variety of possibilities. Students will take home new skills in coil building and throwing. ...more
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Sep 13, 2010 - Sep 24, 2010
Chris Gustin
Lorna Meaden
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Manipulating Form: from elemental to elaborate
Pots for daily use cover a broad spectrum: from those distilled to their essential material to the highly manipulated and elaborate. We address different ways of approaching materials (line, volume and scale) and ideas (aesthetics, historical reference and function). Expand and refine your work by altering clay thrown on the wheel and creating surface in atmospheric kilns. Experiment with glazing techniques, surface drawing and creating texture. ...more
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Doug, director since 1985, teaches, lectures, builds kilns and exhibits his art worldwide. He has served as ceramics program consultant to the United Nations, is a board member for the Carbondale Clay Center, and was invited, along with Takashi Nakazato, as guest artist to the Shigaraki Ceramics Research Institute. He received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees in ceramics from Wichita State University and Alfred University in New York, respectively.
Call Doug at 970-923-3181 x238 or email him at dcasebeer@andersonranch.org.
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