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)
Download
Materials List
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)
Download
Materials List
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.
