Anderson Ranch Arts Center Workshop Catalogs 2010-2014 | Page 12

Kathy Butterly, Whale Burger

Frank Martin, Teapot 

Margaret Bohls, Green Leaf Tureen

July 5 - 9

July 5 - 16

July 12 - 23

Once Ain’t Enough: a focus
on glazing

Kathy Butterly   

Midrange Pots with
Electric Color 
Frank Martin   

Skill Level: II - IV

Skill Level: II - III

Concept:  Glaze can make a piece look wonderful or it can totally ruin it. This workshop
expands our understanding of this exciting and
seductive material through multiple firings,
glaze combos, under- and over-firing glazes and
added materials. We work with low-fire clay
and commercial glazes, beginning with test
tiles and then applying our new techniques to
student-produced pieces. We focus on sculptural pieces not to be used with food.

Concept: Learn strategies and techniques for
working on the potter’s wheel in this hands-on
workshop. Express your personal vision with an
assortment of methods Frank has developed
for making wheel-thrown and altered pottery
for the electric kiln. The glaze lab is integral to
the process as we aim to get the most color
from commercial ceramic stains and traditional
oxides for midrange (cone 4-7) oxidation. We
test a full range of glaze and under-glaze formulas in the electric firing process.

Media & Techniques:  We use low-fire clay
and various commercial low-fire glazes applied
with hand painting. You may use any building
technique you wish to make your pieces.
Activities:  Mornings are spent working on
glaze experiments with examples from the
work of the instructor and other artists. Afternoons provide time to work independently on
building ceramic pieces to be glazed with some
of your experimental successes. The instructor will allot time with each student to critique
work and discuss topics of interest.
Faculty: Kathy Butterly is represented by the
Tibor De Nagy Gallery in New York and shows
regularly at the Shoshana Wayne Gallery in
Santa Monica, California. She is the recipient
of grants such as the Artist Legacy Foundation
Award, Anonymous was a Woman Grant, New
York Foundation for the Arts Award and others.
Her works are in many museum collections
including MoMA, the Tang Museum and the
Carnegie Museum of Art.

Tuition: $785 / Studio Support Cost: $1185
Studio Fee: $95  Code: C0507  Enrollment Limit: 14

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Media & Techniques:  We use cone 4-7 clay
and glazes in a variety of electric kiln firing techniques. Frank will introduce GlazeChem 1.2, a
glaze database, analysis and calculation program
to adjust glaze surface texture and temperature.
Activities: Daily activities include morning and
afternoon demonstrations, slide shows and
one-on-one instruction.
Faculty: Frank Martin received his MFA from
Cranbrook Academy of Art and his BFA from
the Kansas City Art Institute. He is currently
an Associate Professor of Art at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. His works
are in the collections of the Schein-Joseph
International Museum of Ceramic Art and
the Charles A. Wusum Museum of Fine Arts,
and he was a recent recipient of an Individual
Artist Fellowship through a Tennessee Arts
Commission Award.

Tuition: $995 / Studio Support Cost: $1195
Studio Fee: $155  Code: C0506  Enrollment Limit: 14

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Expressive Handbuilt Pottery 
Margaret Bohls   
Skill Level: II - III
Concept:  There are infinite ways to use clay
slabs to create functional pottery forms. Applying a variety of building techniques, we individualize clay forms into expressive, communicative objects. Create and use paper patterns
and textured plaster slab molds and learn alternate ways of making spouts, lids and handles.
Then explore possibilities for creating sets.
Media & Techniques: We use stoneware and
porcelain and fire, for the most part, cone 10
oxidation, either electric or gas. We may also
use some red earthenware clay for trivets and
caddies, fired to cone 04 electric. Techniques
include slab building with soft and stiff slabs,
making and using plaster slab molds for texture, making and using clay sprig molds and
stamps, and a variety of techniques for making
handles, spouts and lids.
Activities: Class projects include trivets, basket trays and caddies. We will have daily demonstrations, several slide talks on contemporary and historical pottery forms, a couple of
group handbuilding exercises, group discussions and optional assignments.
Faculty: Margaret Bohls is a studio potter and
educator who lives and works in Minneapolis,
Minnesota. She has been teaching ceramics at
the University of Minnesota since 1998, during
which time she has also been visiting faculty
at Ohio University, Penn State University and
Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in Halifax.
Margaret has also taught many community
classes and workshops at art centers and universities across the country.
Tuition: $995 / Studio Support Cost: $1395
Studio Fee: $155  Code: C0608  Enrollment Limit: 14