CLAY – SUMMER SESSION 4
June 30-July 12, 2024 (11 STUDIO DAYS)
Alexander Thierry
Screenprinting and Soda Firing

This workshop will explore ways to add screenprinting to the surface of ceramic work through direct printing and transfers. We will cover image and screen creation, screenprinting with underglaze, layering, and how screenprinting can work with various surface and texture techniques. Demonstrations of throwing, handbuilding, and surface techniques will help students create whatever kind of work interests them: vessels, sculptures, etc. A soda firing will allow experimentation with the surfaces that can be created in an atmospheric kiln. We will make both bisqueware and fully glazed work with mid-range clay. All levels. Lower clay studio.

NOTE: Students in this workshop should bring a laptop computer if they can. If you are enrolled and cannot bring a computer, please contact Nadia Massoud at studio_operations@penland.org.

Associate professor at South Carolina State University (SC); residencies: Penland Winter Residency Distinguished Fellow, M.A.K.E. Resident 2019 (Iceland), Summer Visiting Artist at Clemson University (SC), Summer Resident for Hampton County Arts (SC); exhibitions: Edwardsville Arts Center (IL), Peters Valley (NJ), Morean Center for Clay (FL), Foundry Art Centre (MO), Companion Gallery (TN), Artspace (NC).

alexanderthierry.com | @alexander_thierry
Jan 15 – Regular enrollment opens