Ceramics
Code: VFC4902-25
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Open to All
Students of any skill and knowledge level.
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Virtual Workshop
Virtual Workshop, learn from the comfort of your own home.
VIRTUAL WORKSHOP
Piped and Press Molded Porcelain
Dec 5, 2025
3:00PM MST
9AM AEST, December 6th
All Virtual Ceramics Workshops are 2-2.5 hours long
Concept
To register for today’s workshop, please call 970-924-5059. Registration will close on December 5th at 12pm.
Discover playful and experimental ways to shape porcelain and bring intricate textures to life in this dynamic workshop with artist Ebony Russell.
Learn how to transform porcelain into a thick, pipeable slurry and use it to create elaborate surface decorations with piping bags and other tools. Ebony will guide you step-by-step, from preparing the porcelain to applying these decorative elements to thrown or hand-built ceramic forms. You’ll also explore how to combine piped textures with press-molded forms, opening up endless possibilities for your work.
Perfect for artists looking to expand their creative toolkit, this workshop offers fresh techniques to add versatility, detail, and energy to your studio practice. Leave with new skills, bold ideas, and a renewed excitement for working with porcelain
This workshop meets virtually via Zoom Video Conferencing software (downloadable for free from Zoom.com). Review our Virtual Ceramics Workshop Welcome Guide to learn more about the workshop details.
*Please note that only workshop participants will have access to the recording for 60 days following the course.
Faculty
Ebony Russell
Ebony Russell is an Australian artist who uses an unorthodox approach to construct ceramic sculptures. Her unique technique was developed out of an interest in gendered aesthetics, labour and traditional craft practices where Russell methodically pipes porcelain in series of intricate layers to build gravity-defying forms. Challenging the traditional making processes of decorative vessels; in her works the decoration becomes the structure, and the boundaries between the two are erased. Exploring established perceptions of cultural and artistic practices that were once exclusively coded as feminine and thus insignificant, Russell’s work celebrates the decorative, promiscuous aesthetics and politics of purity; the superficial, excess and delight – with pleasure. Ebony Russell completed a Bachelor of Applied Arts (Honours) at Monash University in 2003 and in 2019 graduated from The National Art School, Sydney with a Masters of Fine Art. Russell has won many awards including the Franz International Rising Star Award in 2018 and the Meroogal Women’s Art Prize, 2022. More recently in 2023, Russell received the Highly Commended Award in the International Young Masters Maylis Grand Ceramics Art Prize, London. Major exhibitions include Homo Faber, Venice 2024, Teetering on the Brink, Claire Oliver Gallery, Harlem New York 2024, Young Masters Art Prize, London 2023, 1001 Remarkable Objects: The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney 2023, Think Pinker, Gavlak Gallery Los Angeles 2023, SABOTAJE ESTEìTICO, Yusto Giner Gallery Spain 2022, Halcyon Days, Modern Eden Gallery San Francisco 2022, Clay Dynasty: The Powerhouse Museum 2022.
Workshop Details
Scholarships, College Credit & Discounts
Making Art Accessible
Applications for scholarship support are encouraged. Specific scholarships are funded by Ranch supporters, either through endowed funds or special gifts.
Many colleges and universities offer college credit for workshops taken at Anderson Ranch. Discounts are available for students and teachers.
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