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). 

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Jan 15 – Regular enrollment opens