Samantha Briegel
Sam Briegel is from Knoxville, TN, and lives outside of Baltimore, MD. She received her MFA from Ohio University and shows her work nationally. Briegel has taught virtual and in-person workshops across the country and is a part-time instructor at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
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Samantha's Upcoming Workshops
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Level III
Students have significant experience with clay forming techniques, such as throwing, hand building and modeling. Students are comfortable with ceramics equipment, such as wheels, extruders and slab rollers. Students are self-starting with some formal training and have taken a minimum of three classes or workshops.
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Level IV
Students have advanced skills and knowledge of the ceramics field. Students are highly motivated, have a minimum of five years experience in the field and have a portfolio of their artwork. Typical students are academics and professional artists.
Aug 10 - 21, 2026
9 AM - 5 PM
Piecing it Together: Slab Building with Clay Fabric
Samantha Briegel
Tuition $1,795
Code C1113-26
Learn innovative slab surface treatment techniques in this dynamic workshop that combines hand-building, textured decoration, underglaze screen-printing, and particularly the process of building textured slab-molds using fabric and plaster. Students design and create their own cast textured clay slabs, transforming them into sculptures or functional wares, and explore a technique for applying underglaze color patterns with EZ screens—a technique that can be done easily in a home studio. We learn the art of creating templates and stencils for printing onto clay slab surfaces, and come away from the workshop with plaster texture molds, screenprinted stencils, and several finished works. The workshop is ideal for students who are skilled in slab building functional pottery and want to invigorate their practices with new surface techniques.