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Hot Clay




Coordinator

Ingrid Lilligren, Ceramic Sculptor,Professor, Iowa State University, Ames, IA

June 28–July 10, 2009
Idyllwild Arts has a long history of offering outstanding ceramics programs, and Hot Clay continues that tradition. Among the many ceramists who have served on the faculty are Fred Olsen, Shiro Otani, Susan Peterson, Juan Quezada, Maria Martinez and Lucy Lewis. Today the campus is also known for the Kennedy Kiln Center, its extensive firing facility.



Overview

Workshops, Lectures, Demonstrations, Exhibition

HOT CLAY 2009 presents nationally known instructors in unique workshop opportunities for ceramic artists:

• Hands-on workshops

Week 1 Workshops: June 28 - July 3
Alternative Raku
Figures in Clay
Throwing and Growing

Week 2 Workshops: July 5 - 10
China Paint
Handbuilding with Small Slabs
Paper Clay and You

• Open Studio
• Demonstrations by all faculty
• Lectures
• Critiques
• Exhibits

Participants will explore innovative techniques and concepts in the workshop of their choice. Lectures and demonstrations presented by each instructor will be scheduled to allow participants in all workshops to attend. We emphasize an open studio with a great deal of crossover during each week’s workshops. Critiques and feedback will promote and maximize participants’ potential and growth. On Saturday, July 4, we will spend the day making custom ceramics tools including brushes, ribs, throwing sticks, rollers, texturing tools, calipers, and paddles. An exhibit featuring faculty work will have receptions on June 29 and July 6.

Class size is limited to allow for maximum interaction among participants and with the instructors. The ceramics studio is equipped with gas and electric kilns, wheels, handbuilding equipment and a glaze lab. A complete list of items students need to bring will be sent upon registration for the workshop.

Please note: Some kilns will be unloaded on Saturday following each class. Please plan to stay overnight on Fridays.

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Tool Making Seminar
Saturday, July 4

Join us as we make custom ceramic tools. Brushes, ribs, paddles, slip trailer, calipers, roulettes and more. We’ll use wood, bamboo, fibers, sheet metal, plastic and our imagination. Students enrolled in either week of Hot Clay may participate.

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Week 1 Workshops: June 28-July 3
Select one workshop

Alternative Raku
Eduardo Lazo

June 28-July 3
Course # AACR ØØ-A1
One-week session

This workshop will include demos and basic instruction on seven alternative raku firing techniques, “upside down” throwing, and slam mold-forming methods. Learn one-step and two-step naked raku; ferric chloride techniques; horse hair reduction; clay, paperclay and aluminum foil saggar; fuming with stannous chloride; and barrel firings. Students must bring 20 pieces, no larger than 9x9x9”, bisqued to cone 08 that have been burnished or with terra sigillata application or sanded to 400 grit surface. Details provided with your registration. This workshop is designed for intermediate to advanced ceramists. (Kilns unloaded July 4)

Download materials list.

Tuition: $625
Lab fee: $25

Enrollment limited to 15 students.

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Figures in Clay
Cynthia Consentino

June 28 - July 3
Course # AACR ØØ-A2
One-week session

Artists have used the figure to tell stories that reflect and redefine their culture and experience. In this workshop, participants will work from the model to create their own interpretation of the figure. We will create a clay armature from extruded forms, and then use slabs, pinched forms, solid construction, and carving to complete a half-sized standing figure. Sculptural form, proportions of the body, cold joining methods, surface treatments, and methods of developing content will be discussed. Come with ideas, images and stories for your sculpture. This workshop is designed for advanced beginners through advanced. (Kilns unloaded July 4)

Download materials list.

Tuition: $625
Lab fee: $25

Enrollment limited to 12 students.

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Throwing and Growing
Ingrid Lilligren & Terry Rothrock

June 28 - July 3
Course # AACR ØØ-A3
One-week session

This workshop is team taught by Hot Clay coordinator Ingrid Lilligren and Idyllwild Arts Academy faculty member Terry Rothrock. Participants will learn to throw larger forms through working with sections and will explore what makes “good” form. Emphasis will be on development of personal understanding of forms and on the relationship of surface to forms. Handles, carving, and altering thrown forms will be presented. Each participant will develop a body of work reflecting their personal interests in ceramics. This workshop is designed for advanced beginners through advanced. (Kilns unloaded July 4)

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Tuition: $625
Lab fee: $25

Enrollment limited to 10 students.

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Week II Workshops: July 5 - 10
Select one workshop


China Paint
Paul Lewing

July 5–10
Course # AACR ØØB3
One-week session

China paint (or overglaze enamel) has been a popular ceramic decorating medium for 1000 years, but is almost unknown among today’s studio ceramists. Many of the techniques of watercolor, oil painting, enameling and printmaking can be used with china paint. This workshop will explore methods of applying and firing china paint on ceramic tile and previously fired porcelain forms. We will primarily be using water as a medium. Approaches include: brushes, stamps, printing, spraying, stenciling, resist and wipeout techniques, as well as traditional shading and ground-laying methods. Each participant will produce tiles of their own design, and we will also cooperate in the decorating of a collaborative mural. Tiles will be fired each night, and students will leave with finished tiles. Beginners through advanced are welcome. (Kilns unloaded July 11)

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Tuition: $625
Lab fee: $25

Enrollment limited to 10 students.

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Handbuilding with Soft Slabs
Marc Digeros

July 5–July 10
Course # AACR ØØB2
One-week session

Participants in this workshop will explore the endless possibilities of handbuilding with soft slabs. Daily demonstrations will include functional objects such as; cups, bowls, pouring vessels and lidded forms. We will also explore the use of patterns to create functional and non-functional three-dimensional forms. Our goal for the week will be to expand handbuilding skills as well as a new approach to making work in clay. Glazing and surface treatments will be presented. Students should have some prior handbuilding experience. This workshop is designed for advanced beginners and up. (Kilns unloaded July 11)

Download materials list.

Tuition: $625
Lab fee: $25

Enrollment limited to 12 students per week.

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Paperclay and You
Rosette Gault

July 5–10
Course # AACR ØØB1
One-week session

Join us for a week of imagination and artistic freedom with versatile ceramic paperclay. Unlike traditional clay, if your project cracks or breaks while you are working with it, or dries out, you can repair and/or rebuild your project, until satisfied. This workshop is packed with tips for building figurative or abstract sculptural forms, tiles, murals and/or vessel forms more quickly and easily than with traditional clay. Review of basic handbuilding techniques with the “possibilities of paperclay” applied; assembling handbuilt, cast, or thrown elements at stages beyond leather-hard such as: bone dry to dry, pliant moist wet over dry, using dried paperclay as its own armature, “speed dry” works in progress between work sessions, “speed wedge,” and much more. Surface treatment, glazing, finish and firing possibilities are expanded with paperclay too. In class we will simplify with basic engobes, underglazes, terra sigillata, and adapt for studio glazes and kilns at the center. Paperclays can be adapted for low, mid or high fire kilns, oxidation, reduction, wood fire, electric, raku, terra cottas earthenware, stoneware, porcelain and more. Beginners through advanced are welcome. (Kilns unloaded July 11)

Download Materials List

Tuition: $625
Lab fee: $25

Enrollment limited to 15 students.

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click above to download Hot Clay brochure.

See the Adult Courses page for complete descriptions additional ceramics / pottery workshops workshops offered June 29 - July 24.

Ceramics Workshop: Reinventing the Wheel
Hopi Tewa Pottery
Santa Clara Pottery
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please see the
Summer Event Calendar for a complete list of campus events.

Hot Clay Daily Schedule
9-Noon           Workshop
Noon-1pm       Lunch
1-4 pm           Workshop
Evenings        Open Studio time, lectures, receptions

Events Open to the Public

WEEK I

Monday, June 29
  7 pm Lecture: Cynthia Consentino
  8 pm Artists Reception. Hot Clay & Visiting Faculty Show Parks   Center.

Wednesday, July 1
  7 pm Lecture: Ingrid Lilligren & Terry Rothrock

Thursday, July 2
  7 pm Lecture: Eduardo Lazo

WEEK II

Sunday, July 5
  7 pm Lecture: Paul Lewing

Monday, July 6
  7 pm Native American Pottery Demo, Parks Exhibition Center
  8 pm Artists Reception, Parks Exhibition Center

Wednesday, July 8
  7 pm Lecture: Rosette Gault

Thursday, July 9
  7 pm Lecture: Marc Digeros

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Tuition: $625 per week. Includes Toolmaking Seminar.

Please refer to individual workshop descriptions for lab fees.

Refer to the Adult Housing page for on-campus housing and meal options.