destination workshops
Explore a new culture while
advancing your work
Plan an artist escape with Anderson Ranch! We
travel to Jamaica, Mexico, and Spain in 2018
to discover new territory in art making and
much more. Destination Workshop students
get the best of both worlds—advancing their
art making practice with expert faculty while
enjoying an exciting experience abroad.
destination workshop
April 21 – 27, 2018
jamaica
Pottery Making: for wood & soda firing
Liz Lurie & Peter Beasecker
David Pinto & Doug Casebeer
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Step outside your normal work environment, and take risks in a very
supportive studio atmosphere. Travel to the north coast of Jamaica for a week-long
intensive workshop focused on pottery-making techniques and design. In addition to
studio experience, participants interact with local artists working in clay and gain a
cultural awareness of plantation life and Caribbean history. This is the 21st year of
Anderson Ranch workshops in Jamaica.
Demonstrations include throwing and hand building techniques that explore the gestural
qualities of porcelain through functional pottery. We concentrate on pottery as a vehicle
for expression of line and surface, while maintaining the highest level of utility and craft.
We engage in further exploration of form and surface and also address alteration, both
on and off the wheel. We build forms using the wheel, slabs and pinching. Participants
can bring bisqueware for firings, but are limited to small cups and bowls in stoneware
or porcelain.
DETAILS: Destination Workshops in Jamaica are based on the Good Hope Plantation.
The Great House was built in 1755 in classic Georgian style, and later became
headquarters to one of Jamaica’s largest and most prosperous sugar families. The
2,000-acre plantation is still actively growing fruits, raising horses and sheep, and has a
collection of farmyard animals at the stables.
Tuition for workshops in Jamaica includes ground transportation, all meals,
accommodations, instruction, all studio materials, supplies and equipment use. Students
will need to bring some personal supplies such as hand tools, drawing supplies, etc., as
outlined in the workshop supply list.
FACULTY: Liz Lurie has been a studio potter for twenty years. She was introduced to
ceramics in Mikal Zakin’s classroom at Sarah Lawrence College. After graduating with a
concentration in dance and ceramics, she pursued her interest in pottery full-time when
she left her native Manhattan to become a member of a wood-fired kiln collective in
rural Georgia. After setting up studios and building wood kilns in both Dallas, Texas and
Greene, N.Y. Lurie established a studio outside of Chittenango, N.Y. where she teaches
community classes and maintains a showroom. Liz’s work has been exhibited nationally,
most notably at AKAR, Trax Gallery, The Signature Shop, Red Lodge Ceramic Center and
the Harvey Meadows Gallery.
CONCEPT:
www.lizlurie.com
Peter Beasecker was born in Toledo, Ohio and received a B.S. degree from Miami
University and his M.F.A. from Alfred University. He is a Professor of Art teaching
ceramics and graduate studies at Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing
Arts. Peter has received numerous awards and distinctions in his career, most recently
being named a NYFA Fellow for 2015. He has exhibited extensively in national and
international venues, and his work is included in the collections of the Renwick Gallery
of the Smithsonian Institution, The Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the Mint Museum
in North Carolina. Peter has been a visiting artist and workshop leader at over sixty
institutions, including Anderson Ranch, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Haystack
Mountain School of Crafts, and the Penland School of Crafts. He has been the co-
coordinator of the Utilitarian Clay Symposium at Arrowmont since 1996. He currently
maintains a studio in Cazenovia, N.Y.
www.peter-beasecker.com
David Pinto, a studio potter born in Jamaica, taught at the 92nd Street Y while living
in New York. He now teaches at his studio on the Good Hope Plantation in Jamaica. A
graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, he has shown his work in Japan, New
York and throughout Jamaica.
www.jamaicaclay.com
Doug Casebeer directs the Ceramics program at Anderson Ranch. He lived in Jamaica
for three years, working on a pottery project for the United Nations. “Jamaicans are full
of life and vitality,” says Doug. “The Jamaican pace has a way of freeing up the mind.
I always return home invigorated and alive with my work.” Doug is Artistic Director of
Ceramics and Associate Director at Anderson Ranch Arts Center.
www.harveymeadowsgallery.com
TUITION:
$3,000 (singles are currently full, but you can ask to be on the waitlist)
$2,650
TENTED $1,950 – tent, pad and linens provided – availability limited to 3
TENTED $1,350 – bring your own gear: tent pad sleeping bag – availability limited to 3
*Tuition includes housing, meals, airport transfers, instruction and studio supplies.
Airfare not included.
DEPOSIT $500
REGISTRATION FEE $175
PAYMENT IN FULL BY March 1, 2018
ARRIVAL DATE Friday, April 20, 2018
DEPARTURE DATE Saturday, April 28, 2018
CODE FJAM0418
SINGLE
DOUBLE
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Doug Casebeer [email protected]
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