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Spring Short Session Clay

Clay – Spring Short Session
April 27 – May 2, 2025 (4 studio days)
Susan Feagin
Floof! Image Transfers on Clay

Try your hand at making low-tech underglaze transfers to use on clay surfaces. Students will make silkscreens and draw directly onto newsprint with underglazes to create unique printed and layered imagery on tiles or clay forms (depending on time and individual skill level). We’ll cover some slab building basics using bisque molds and templates. Wheel throwers are welcome, too. This workshop is perfect for people who like to doodle, draw, print, cut, and paste. Bisque-fire only. All levels. Lower clay studio.

Studio artist and Penland clay studio coordinator; teaching: Campbell Folk School (NC), Arrowmont (TN), Double Island Studio (NC), Warren Wilson College (NC); presenter at NCECA Makers Space 2024; exhibitions: Spruce Pine Potters Market (NC); Toe River Arts Gallery (NC); Red Lodge Clay Center (MT), Potters of Madison County (NC). 

susanfeaginceramics.com | @susanfeagin

 Scholarship application deadline is August 15.
Regular enrollment begins October 2.

Susan Feagin, Collage Basket, stoneware with screenprinted underglazes and slips; soda-fired to cone 8, 13 x 8 x 11 inches
Susan Feagin, Collage Basket, stoneware with screenprinted underglazes and slips; soda-fired to cone 8, 13 x 8 x 11 inches
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Clay Spring Concentration

Clay – Spring Concentration
March 2 – April 25, 2025 (8 Weeks)
Michael Kline
Surfacing

This workshop will explore the possibilities of surface design on clay and its connection to form. Stamping, painting, incising, and scraping stoneware pots will bring layer upon layer of visual interest to the surface. We will also experiment with flashing slips, underglazes, wax resists, and glazes, firing to cone 10 in soda and gas reduction kilns. Numerous exercises will boost mark-making confidence. Forming techniques will include wheel throwing, altering thrown forms, and hump-molded forms. Handmade brushes and clay stamps will bring a unique touch to our marks. The convergence of practice, novel ideas, and refined technical skills will help students develop a signature body of work. We’ll work with stoneware and/or porcelain. All levels. Upper clay studio.

Studio potter; teaching: Anderson Ranch (CO), Haystack (ME), Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (BC), Harvard (MA); collections: Islip Art Museum (NY), The Gregg Museum (NC), University of Tennessee Ewing Art Gallery (TN), San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts (TX); published in Tableware in Clay (Crowood Press), The Art of Contemporary Pottery and Functional Pottery (Krause Publications), Mastering the Potter’s Wheel (Voyageur Press); former Penland resident artist.

klinepottery.com | @klineola

Regular enrollment begins October 2.

Michael Kline, Pitcher, wheelthrown stoneware; hand-painted with wax resist, soda glazed, 11 x 7 x 7 inches
Michael Kline, Pitcher, wheelthrown stoneware; hand-painted with wax resist, soda glazed, 11 x 7 x 7 inches
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Clay Fall Concentration

CLAY – FALL CONCENTRATION
SEPTEMBER 29 – NOVEMBER 8, 2024 (6 weeks)
Esther Shimazu
Arm, Leg, Wing

We will start with the human figure and then riff on this form to explore other creatures. Using standard handbuilding methods, we will work mainly hollow and in parts (if you know how a teapot is made, that will be helpful),. Techniques may include carving, re-sectioning, scraping, seams, slashing, using paperclay to control shrinking, slips, stains, resists, fusing parts with glaze, re-firing, repairs, etc. Students can expect to complete three or four medium-sized (10-20 inch) pieces plus some smaller works, maquettes, and studies. Some goals for the workshop are surprising yourself, maximizing individual expression, working with one’s inner nerd, and not being too attached to a standard. Firing will mostly be electric. All levels. Lower clay studio.

Studio artist; teaching: Anderson Ranch (CO), Santa Fe Clay (NM), Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design (Vancouver, BC), San Miguel de Allende (Mexico), Penland; collections: Honolulu Museum of Art, Fresno Art Museum (CA), St. Louis Art Museum, Berkeley Art Museum (CA), Kutani Collection (Japan), Cincinnati Art Museum, Crocker Art Museum (MA), Racine Art Museum (WI), Fule International Ceramic Art Museum (China). 

esthershimazu.com | @esthershimazu

Esther Shimazu, Just Us, stoneware, porcelain, 6 x 7-3/4 x 7 inches
Esther Shimazu, Just Us, stoneware, porcelain, 6 x 7-3/4 x 7 inches
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Clay Fall Short Session

CLAY – FALL SHORT SESSION
SEPTEMBER 22 – 27, 2024 (4 STUDIO DAYS)
Adrienne Eliades
Say It with Surface

Cultivate your creative voice through surface design on clay. Beginning with test tile studies, students will work through aesthetic considerations such as color, composition, and imagery (whether abstract or representational). Then, working with thrown forms such as cups, bowls, and vases, students will practice applying 2D imagery to 3D forms. Techniques will include inlay, slip trailing, stenciling, and resist in combination with underglaze and glaze. Demonstrations, exercises, and discussions will prompt students to connect with their internal and external sources of inspiration. Students will leave with new skills and ideas, greenware pots, and glazed test tiles fired to mid-range temperature. All levels. Upper clay studio.=

Studio artist; teaching: Lewis & Clark College (OR), Portland Community College (OR), Arrowmont (TN), Touchstone (PA), Idyllwild Arts (CA); residencies: Ash Street Project (OR), Guldagergaard (Denmark), The Bright Angle (NC); representations: Charlie Cummings Gallery (FL), Clay Akar (IA), Eutectic Gallery (OR); publications: Ceramics Monthly, Pottery Making Illustrated (cover), The Beginner’s Guide to Handbuilding, The Beginner’s Guide to Wheel Throwing. 

adrienneeliades.com | @bugaboo_eyes

Adrienne Eliades, Stacked Mugs, porcelain, glaze, underglaze, 4-3/4 x 3-1/4 x 3-1/4 inches
Adrienne Eliades, Stacked Mugs, porcelain, glaze, underglaze, 4-3/4 x 3-1/4 x 3-1/4 inches
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Clay A Summer Session 3

CLAY – SUMMER SESSION 3
June 16-28, 2024 (11 STUDIO DAYS)
Arthur Gonzalez
When Sculpture Talks Back

With the life-size portrait bust as our format, students will learn how to depict emotions through facial expressions and asymmetrical poses and find their way to narrative. We will work with a handbuilding method called the inside-out technique, in which the artist’s hands stand in for the muscle and bone. This technique enables the artist to manipulate the figure in a natural manner, from both sides of the clay wall, turning the clay into “skin.” The application of color will be guided by the theories of Post-Impressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement, representing emotion and “time of day.” We will work with a low-fire, iron-base clay. All levels. Upper clay studio.

Professor at California College of the Arts; two Virginia Groot Foundation awards and four NEA fellowships; 55 solo exhibitions including John Natsoulas Gallery (CA), John Elder Gallery (NYC), Susan Cummins Gallery (CA); collections: Museum of Modern Ceramic Art (Japan), Racine Art Museum (WI), Crocker Art Museum (CA), Oakland Museum (CA), Yingge Ceramics Museum (Taiwan), Museum of Arts and Design (NYC). 

arthurgonzalez.net | @arthur7582
Video series about Arthur
Jan 15 – Regular enrollment opens

Arthur Gonzalez, The Fifth Realm at Noon, ceramic, glaze, 29 x 14 x 12 inches
Arthur Gonzalez, The Fifth Realm at Noon, ceramic, glaze, 29 x 14 x 12 inches