Del Harrow, Installation
US Embassy, Nuevo Laredo, Mexico
April 20 — 26
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Holly Walker, Circuit Jar
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Jamaica
Pottery: expressive
forms & surfaces
Josh DeWeese, Doug
Casebeer & David Pinto
CONCEPT
Step outside your normal work
environment and take risks in a supportive
studio atmosphere. Travel to the northern coast
of Jamaica for a week-long intensive workshop
focused on pottery-making techniques and
design. In addition to studio experience,
interact with local artists working in clay and
gain a cultural awareness of plantation life and
Caribbean history.
Address the elements that contribute to the
character of a pot and techniques to develop
them and make them your own. Develop pottery
as an expressive art form. Demonstrations
include different ways for making pots using
throwing and altering techniques. Make work
to fire in a wood kiln using stoneware and
porcelain clay. Discuss ideas for developing
expressive surface treatments for atmospheric
firing. Presentations of the artists’ work and
contemporary ceramics will complement this
hands-on experience.
FACULTY
Josh DeWeese is a ceramic artist
and educator, currently an Associate Professor
of Art at Montana State University in Bozeman,
where he and his wife Rosalie Wynkoop have
a home and studio. Josh served as Resident
Director of the Archie Bray Foundation for the
Ceramic Arts in Helena, MT from 1992-2006.
He holds an MFA from the New York State
College of Ceramics at Alfred, and a BFA from
the Kansas City Art Institute. Josh has exhibited
and taught workshops internationally and his
work is included in numerous public and private
collections.
June 3 — 7
June 3 — 14
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Fresh & Invigorating:
hand built pottery Digitally Fabricated
Molds
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Holly Walker Del Harrow
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CONCEPT Invention, investigation and
play are among the most rewarding and
satisfying studio activities that often lead to
new dimensions in one’s studio work. In this
workshop, students break away from their
typical mode and engage their investigative
spirit. Students leave refreshed, idea-rich and
amazed at how fun and essential dedicated
studio time can be. CONCEPT As ceramic artists, the technology
MEDIA & TECHNIQUES Students employ MEDIA & TECHNIQUES
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coil, pinch and soft slab techniques and use red
earthenware clay to make functional and wall-
hung forms while experimenting with invented
additions and bold application of slips and
glazes. Students explore the geography of form
and surface through abstract and geometric
structure, rhythm and tempo.
ACTIVITIES
Activities include investigative
play, demonstrations, individual mentoring,
class-wide conversations and lectures featuring
inventive and unusual pottery and architectural
forms. Learn how to make effective use of a
journal or sketchbook.
FACULTY
Holly Walker is a full-time ceramic
artist in Vermont. She has taught at major art and
craft schools, and her work is widely published.
Holly served as Director of Watershed Center
for the Ceramic Arts, and received her MFA in
ceramics from Louisiana State University, with a
minor in painting.
www.hollywalkerceramics.com
www.joshdeweese.com
See page 81 in Destination Workshops for
detailed description, all faculty bios and
pricing information.
we use is a language. Our ideas and creative
voices are expressed through tools, techniques
and materials, which are both consistent and
also continually evolving. In this workshop,
we explore the theoretical context, practical
applications, and poetic potential of digital
technology integration into the languages of
ceramic form.
The workshop
is focused on the use of digital fabrication
technology such as three-dimensional CAD
(Computer Aided Design) and CNC (Computer
Numerical Control) machining for the creation
of ceramic objects. Learn beginning and
intermediate CAD (Rhino 3-D and Grasshopper)
and CNC machining to create plaster molds for
slip casting and press molding. The workshop
is tailored to ceramic artists — sculptors, potters
and educators — but the processes covered will
be applicable to a range of other 3-D media.
ACTIVITIES The workshop includes software
and digital fabrication demonstrations, as well
as hands-on work with software, machines
and ceramic materials. Create individual work
articulating the tools and processes presented
in the workshop. Students participate in
critiques, discussions and selected readings
exploring both the technical and theoretical
repercussions of digital ceramics.
FACULTY
Del Harrow teaches ceramics and
sculpture at Colorado State University. His work
has been exhibited recently at the Milwaukee Art
Museum, the Denver Art Museum, the Arizona
State University Art Museum, the Museum of
Fine Arts in Boston, Haw Contemporary in
Kansas City, MO and Harvey/Meadows Gallery
in Aspen. Del received his MFA from Alfred
University.
www.delharrow.net
TUITION $975
TUITION $1,195
TUITION + STUDIO SUPPORT DONATION $1,175 TUITION + STUDIO SUPPORT DONATION $1,595
REGISTRATION FEE $45 | STUDIO FEE $95 REGISTRATION FEE $45 | STUDIO FEE $195
CODE C0101-19 ENROLLMENT LIMIT 12 CODE C0102-19 ENROLLMENT LIMIT 14
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