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2020 WORKSHOPS
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WELCOME TO A RROWMONT
IMP O RTA NT DATES
This catalog is dedicated to Bill May. We have not previously done something of this kind but with Bill’s impending retirement, I want to AT A G L A N C E
recognize his contributions to Arrowmont. Bill, from all of us — Board of Governors, students, instructors, and staff, we wish you the best
in your new endeavors and bestow upon you the title of Executive Director Emeritus.
“All people have the ability to be creative” Bill May, most anytime he speaks of Arrowmont. A R T I S T S - I N - R ES I D EN C E
A P P L I C AT I O N D E A D L I N E
These last few years at Arrowmont have been both “exciting” and challenging: February 1, 2020
• Exciting because so much has happened, from the forest fires that consumed two of our dormitories but led to the building of a new,
larger, more modern and far better equipped one: E A R LY R E G I S T R AT I O N D E A D L I N E
• Challenging as a result of a $33,000,000 comprehensive campaign containing a 2:1 challenge that has so far enabled Arrowmont to February 1, 2020
successfully raise more than $30,000,000 of that total. Registration Fee of $50 is
waived for Early Registration
Looking back even a little further, many predicted the demise of the school about the time we learned that we had to purchase the land that
we had been on for almost 100 years. But, with a lot of help and superior leadership, we met that challenge too. W O R K- S T U DY
A P P L I C AT I O N D E A D L I N E
None of these successes just happened. People were and are the reasons for our tenacity and determination to make all these good things March 1, 2020
happen. The combination of staff, Bill May’s leadership, and a committed Board of Governors are the principal reasons for the good fortune
that has come to Arrowmont. For the past eight years with Bill at the helm, supported by a competent staff, and extraordinary donors who SCHOLARSHIP
believe in the school, Arrowmont has moved into the future equipped for the challenges that lie before us. A P P L I C AT I O N D E A D L I N E
March 1, 2020
As we were planning Moving Mountains, the campaign to secure Arrowmont’s future, Bill announced that at the end of the campaign,
he would retire. In anticipation of Bill’s retirement, a nationwide search was conducted for his replacement. We found that person among Please check the website
Arrowmont’s student body — Jim Scarsella, a Michigan woodturner and corporate leader, was hired as deputy director. arrowmont.org for updated
deadlines as some scholarships
Jim has a unique set of qualifications: From his award-winning woodturner experience to his more than twenty years’ professional have a rolling deadline and
management experience including building and operating an anesthesia management and clinical services company. He has expert others may re-open mid-
leadership skills including finance, contracting, personnel management, and operations experience. Jim’s passion for arts and crafts and summer for Fall applications.
woodworking were the reason he left his very successful business to devote himself to Arrowmont. For the past two years, Jim has worked
closely with Bill May and staff, learning about Arrowmont and leading the day-to-day operations. Upon Bill’s formal retirement, A R R O W M O N T ’ S 75 T H
Jim will assume the executive directorship of Arrowmont. A N N I V ER S A R Y J U B I L EE —
A C EL EB R AT I O N O F 75 Y E A R S A S
The Board of Governors and staff have utmost confidence in Jim and his ability to lead Arrowmont into A SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CRAFTS
the future. We are all excited about the future and the opportunities and challenges it will bring. March 21, 2020
You are an important, indeed, the most important piece of the future. Arrowmont is a school and as such, U T I L I TA R I A N C L AY V I I I
its students and instructors play a vital role in creating the Arrowmont experience. As you peruse this N AT I O N A L S Y M P O S I U M —
catalog and plan your summer, I encourage you to share it with your friends and family. We look forward C EL EB R AT E T H E O B J E C T
to seeing you and your friends on campus this upcoming season. September 9 – 12, 2020
R E G I S T R AT I O N O P EN S
And to Bill May from all of us, a heart-felt well-done. A P R I L 1, 2 0 2 0
Dr. Steven Gottlieb,
President, Board of Governors
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TA B LE O F C O N TEN T S
W ELC O M E 1 WOOD 59
S C H ED U L E AT A G L A N C E 4 WORKSHOP BASICS 70
T W O W EEK S ES S I O N 6 HOUSING & MEALS 71
W EEK EN D S ES S I O N 6 R E G I S T R AT I O N & W O R K S H O P F EES 72
M A S T ER T U R N I N G S ER I ES 7 S C H O L A R S H I P S , F EL LO W S H I P S
& R ES I D EN C I ES 74
S P E C I A L TO P I C S 9
ED U C AT I O N A L A S S I S TA N C E 75
C L AY 15
G A L L ER I ES & E X H I B I T I O N S 76
2D A R T S: D R AW I N G · PA I N T I N G ·
P R I N T M A K I N G · PA P ER & B O O K A R T S 27
COMMUNIT Y PROGRAMS 76
F I B ER S · T E X T I L ES · B A S K E T S 37
A R R O W M O N T H I S TO R Y 77
M E TA L S · EN A M EL S 49
2020 SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE
SPECIAL TOPICS C L AY 2D ARTS: DRAWING, PAINTING, PRINTMAKING, PAPER, BOOK ARTS
M A R C H 2 6 – 2 9 ( W E E K E N D) Maureen Aderman · Janet Link · Audry Deal-McEver Lisa D. Line
Joel Zachry
M AY 2 4 – 3 0 Matt Repsher · Jamie Bates Slone Kristina Arnold · Billy Renkl
M AY 31 – J U N E 6 Mallory Wetherell · Xia Zhang Greta Songe · Heinrich Toh
J U N E 7 – 13 Rebecca Hutchinson · Brenda Lichman Gary Chapman · Matt Runkle
J U N E 14 – 2 0 Mark Errol Ian Brownlee
J U N E 21 – 27 Mason Cooley Israel Davis · Salvador Jiménez-Flores Melissa Harshman
& Casey Weldon
J U N E 2 8 – J U LY 11 ( T W O W E E K S ) Bill Thomas Doug Jeppesen · Curt LaCross James Ehlers
J U LY 19 – 2 5 Magda Gluszek · Kate Maury Hollie Chastain · Carol Weber
J U LY 2 6 – A U G U S T 1 Ana M. Lopez Thomas Lucas & David Todd Trost · Leslie Nichols
Nan Smith
AUGUST 2 – 8 Paul Andrew Wandless Joseph Pintz Jodi Reeb
O C T O B E R 4 – 10 Anne K. Beyer · Stephanie Lanter Christine Garvey · Gretchen Schermerhorn
O C T O B E R 11 – 17 Peter Dellert Osa Atoe · Andrea Moon Susan Moss · Sarah Shebaro
O C T O B E R 18 – 2 4 Taylor Robenalt · Bill Wilkey Daniel Essig · Stuart Kestenbaum & Susan Webster
O C T O B E R 2 5 – 31 Elyse-Krista Mische Sandy Blain · Todd Pletcher Lindsey Meyers Carroll
N OV E M B E R 1 – 7 Brett Beasley Lynn Corsi Bland · Nicole Uzzell · John David Wissler
N OV E M B E R 8 – 14 Doug Lowman HP Bloomer · Matthew Dercole Rachel Simmons
N OV E M B E R 15 – 21 Lynnette Hesser & Steve Loucks · Jiyoung Chung · Dietlind Vander Schaaf
Lynne Hobaica
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FIBERS · TEXTILES · BASKETS M E TA L S · E N A M E L S WOOD
Emily Nicolaides · Billy Ray Sims Emily Shaffer Janice Levi
Jim Arendt · Amy Putansu John Cogswell · Abigail Heuss Teresa Audet · Chris Hoehle
Leslie Pearson · Ann Tilley Sue Amendolara · Mi-Sook Hur Joshua Almond · Barry Gross
Crystal Gregory · Kenya Miles Julia Harrison Trent Bosch · Jackson Martin
Helen Geglio · Katie Grove · Jan Wutkowski Angela Caldwell Nicholas Flaherty · Abby Mechanic
Gasali Adeyemo · Shana Kohnstamm Emily Culver · Ricky Frank
David Ellsworth
Polly Jacobs Giacchina · Aaron McIntosh · Tanya Crane Dan Tilden
Kim Mirus
Margaret Leininger · Laura Mongiovi Anne Havel · Deb Karash Beth Ireland · Kimberly Winkle
Katherine Diuguid · Julia Gartrell · Joshua Shorey · James Thurman · Michael Lee
Lynette Youson Umut Demirgüç Thurman
Jovencio de la Paz · Beth Hester · Jillian Moreno Jennifer Wells Daniel Clay · Avelino Samuel
Jackie Abrams· Sonya Philip Anna Johnson Wyatt Severs · Mark Sfirri
Christine Zoller Mary Hettmansperger Donna Zils Banfield · Michael Cullen
Kathryn Clark · Akemi Cohn Rachel Shimpock Michael Hosaluk · Lisa York
Lanny Bergner · Clare Verstegen Lauren McAdams Selden Sally Ault · Lindsey Mulheron Liden
Pat Hickman · JoEl Levy LoGiudice David Jones Heather Ashworth · Jim Scarsella
Joetta Maue · Lesley Patterson-Marx Tom McCarthy · Joshua Shorey Derek Weidman
Deborah Fell · Mark Hendry Rachel Kedinger Dixie Biggs & Betty Scarpino
T WO W EEK SES SIONS
W EEK EN D S ES S I O N
Arrowmont’s weekend sessions are perfect for those who only have a few days but want
to learn and create. They are designed to offer ample opportunity to catch up with old
friends, explore different media, and interact with artists and community members. These
weekend workshops offer the opportunity to take advantage of the beauty of the Great
Smoky Mountains and learn a new craft or hone existing skills.
M A R C H 2 6 – 2 9, 2 0 2 0
MAUREEN ADERMAN E M I LY N I C O L A I D E S
P M C A N D F U S ED G L A S S J E W EL R Y P.10 A L L T H I N G S C I R C U L A R W E AV I N G P.3 8
A U D R Y D E A L- M C E V E R E M I LY S H A F F E R
P L AY I N G W I T H PAT T ER N: C R E AT I N G A R G EN T I U M S I LV ER FA B R I C AT I O N P.5 0
O R N AT E S U R FA C E D ES I G N S O N C L AY P.16
T WO W EE K S ES S I O N B I L LY R AY S I M S
JANICE LEVI T R A D I T I O N A L S P L I N T W O V EN
In addition to one-week and weekend workshops, Arrowmont offers two-week sessions I T’ S N E V ER TO O E A R LY F O R O R N A M EN T S P.6 0 F I S H C R EEL O R P U R S E B A S K E T P.3 8
for those media, techniques and projects that need more than one week to complete or
to achieve proficiency. The two-week session instructors are masters in their disciplines, L I S A D. L I N E JOEL ZACHRY
exceptional teachers, and are university professors and working professional artists. These F O L LO W I N G T H E PAT H O F L I G H T S P R I N G: T H E A R T O F N AT U R E P.10
workshops offer the opportunity to take advantage of Arrowmont’s location at the gateway to I N O I L PA I N T I N G P. 28
the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and to immerse yourself in a unique experience.
JANET LINK
ED I B L E D R AW I N G S: D E C O R AT I N G C O O K I ES P.10
J U N E 2 8 – J U LY 11, 2 0 2 0
TA N YA C R A N E CURT L ACROSS
S U S P EN D ED TO P O G R A P H I ES I N EN A M EL P.52 C A P T U R I N G T H E H U M A N EL EM EN T I N C L AY P.19
JAMES EHLERS A ARON MCINTOSH
E X P LO R AT I O N A N D I M P R ES S I O N P.3 0 Q U EER S T R AT E G I ES F O R T E X T I L E T H I N K I N G P.41
P O L LY JA C O B S G I A C C H I N A KIM MIRUS
T H E M EE T I N G O F F I B ER W O V EN E X P LO R AT I O N S P.41
T E C H N I Q U ES A N D M AT ER I A L S P.41
DA N T I L D E N
DOUG JEPPESEN E X P LO R I N G N AT U R A L D ES I G N S
L I G H T I T U P : W O O D F I R I N G T H E T R A I N K I L N P.19 I N W O O DT U R N I N G P.62
BILL THOMAS
B U I L D I N G YO U R O W N F OX D E C K ED C A N O E P.11
M ASTER TURNING SERIES 77
M A S TER WO O DT U R N I N G WO R KS H O P S
Arrowmont launched a new Master Class series of woodturning workshops in 2019.
Returning for the second year, a group of the world’s best turners and instructors will
teach a new series of in-depth and creatively challenging workshops geared to the
experienced turner.
TRENT BOSCH MICHAEL HOSALUK
J U N E 7 – 13 , 2 0 2 0 O C T O B E R 18 – 2 4 , 2 0 2 0
P ER S O N A L E X P LO R AT I O N O F T U R N ED D ES I G N I N T U R N I N G P.6 5
F O R M S A N D S U R FA C ES P.61
DIXIE BIGGS & BETT Y SCARPINO
DAV I D E L L S W O R T H N OV E M B E R 15 – 21, 2 0 2 0
J U N E 21 – 27, 2 0 2 0 W O O D C A R V I N G: P O W ER P L AY P.67
O P EN B O W L S TO H O L LO W F O R M S P.62
AV E L I N O S A M U E L
AUGUST 2 – 8, 2020
S P I R A L C A R V ED A N D S T R A I G H T
C A R V ED V ES S EL S P.6 4
MARK SFIRRI
O C T O B E R 4 – 10, 2 0 2 0
G A M E H U N T I N G I N N O R T H A M ER I C A P.6 4
“I was able to experiment, take risks, and create in a community of artists and in an atmosphere that fosters creative and critical inquiry. It was an invaluable experience that I will cherish for a lifetime.” — SARAH-ANNE M A R R A F F I N O, B I L L G R I F F I T H A R T ED U C ATO R F EL LO W
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SPECI A L TOPICS
At Arrowmont, we do our best to classify workshops by media. Increasingly, the
creativity of making eludes easy classification or exists between two (or more) media.
Browse through this section to find those experiences that will expand your own
creativity and that push the limits of disciplinary knowledge. From boats to bicycles,
cookies to craft theory — you may be surprised to find a topic that is special to you.SPECI A L TOPIC S
MARCH 26 – 29 · WEEKEND MARCH 26 – 29 · WEEKEND MARCH 26 – 29 · WEEKEND
M AU R EEN A D ER M A N JA N ET LI N K J O EL Z AC H RY
PM C A N D FU S ED G L A S S JE W ELRY ED I B LE D R AW I N G S: S PR I N G: T H E A R T O F N AT U R E
D EC O R AT I N G C O O K I ES
During this workshop students will learn What better time than spring to ramble
to work with precious metal clay (PMC) In this workshop students are introduced and enjoy the artistic wonders of landscape,
which is a unique form of clay that when to the tools, materials and techniques plant life and animal diversity in the
fired yields pure metal. It can be shaped by to create elaborately decorated cookies. Smokies? Students should bring to class
hand or by using molds like any soft clay. Through demonstrations and practice you a camera, cell phone and sketch pad to
One of its unique qualities is that it can will explore the design potential of line, record some of nature’s finest art forms
be fired with small pieces of fused glass. texture, scale and color by decorating for further study that include wildflowers,
Participants will begin by making multiple a series of gingerbread cookies with trees, and maybe a bear or two. You will
glass cabochons and using them to create royal icing, sanding sugar and candies. learn about critters and the forest while
jewelry pieces. During this course you will Discussions include drawing, design and making like-minded friends. Open to all
complete multiple pieces of jewelry while planning layered compositions. Using skill levels and prepare to hike a few trails
receiving personal attention and the ability only round pastry tips, participants will to see it all. C O U R S E F EE: $ 4 3 5
to work at your own pace. This class is a practice flooding, piping and embellishing
great way to gain inspiration and express to become familiar with the eccentricities Joel Zachry is a noted photographer, writer,
your creativity. Open to all skill levels. of the tools and medium. Students will presenter and hike leader and a retired
C O U R S E F EE: $ 4 5 0 leave class with a collection of cookies and Tennessee Community College administrator
the foundation necessary to continue their and biology professor. He has been with the
Maureen Aderman is from Clarence, New York exploration of this unusual craft. Open to University of Tennessee National Park Service
and is a full-time studio artist in East Amherst, all skill levels. C O U R S E F EE: $ 4 0 0 Smoky Mountain Field School as an instructor
New York. She earned her BS in Studio Art from since 1980 and its co-director with his wife
Nazareth College of Rochester and a BA and Janet Link is a full-time artist and resident since 2013. Together, they own and guide for
MFA in Art Education from the State University at Anchorlight in Raleigh, North Carolina. Great Outdoors Adventure!, enjoy travel and are
College at Buffalo. She has taught and assisted She has taught drawing at Louisiana State authors of Bears We’ve Met, Short Stories of
classes at various art conferences and schools University, Centre College, Meredith College, Close Encounters. Zachry has hiked the 2,175
including Glass Craft and Bead Expo, Hot North Carolina State University and Penland. miles of the Appalachian Trail.
Glass Horizons, Pittsburgh Glass Center and Every December she completes an edible G O W I T H G O AT.C O M
Arrowmont. H A N D M A D EBY M O E.C O M drawing project — a limited edition gingerbread
snowflakes decorated with royal icing and
sugar. J A N E T L I N K .C O M11
J U N E 21 – 27 · O N E W E E K J U N E 2 8 – J U LY 11 · T W O W E E K S J U LY 2 6 – A U G U S T 1 · O N E W E E K AUGUST 2 – 8 · ONE WEEK
M A S O N C O O LE Y B I LL T H O M A S A N A M . LO PEZ PAU L A N D R E W WA N D LES S
B A M B O O B I CYC LE WO R KS H O P B U I LD I N G YO U R OW N WHY CR AFT? M O LD M A K I N G: C ER A M I C S
F OX D EC K ED CA N O E A N D M I X ED - M ED I A
During this workshop students will From the time of the Industrial Revolution,
build a custom bamboo bicycle frame In this workshop students will construct individuals have chosen to create decorative This workshop will introduce students
that they can equip to ride once all the their own fox canoe using stitch-and-glue art objects with pre-industrial materials to basic mold making, modeling and
components are built. The frame is built with planks glued to length so the boat and technologies ranging from the personal casting. The focus is on making small
in class. Students will need to complete can be fully assembled during class with to the political. In this workshop students molds and sprigs using a variety of
the wheels, etc. at home. You will learn the paint and varnish to be completed at will explore examples of those who have approaches. During class participants
the basics of frame geometry, frame size, home. The fox canoe is a decked double chosen craft and why they create it. will create plaster molds, bisque molds
proper placement of bamboo poles on the paddle canoe that is paddled like a kayak Through discussion, lecture, field trips and rubber latex molds for use with clay.
jig, and techniques for constructing the with a more open cockpit. The canoe (a and visual media you will learn about You will use silicone rubber molds to cast
frame and final finish. The class includes 14' 7" long, 30" beam, and 80" cockpit this process. There will be no making of non-clay materials and positives will be
hands-on examples of components needed weighing just over 40 pounds) is intended physical objects in conjunction with this created with clay, plasticine, chipboard and
to complete building the bicycle. Open to for exploring protected waters along the class. Open to all skill levels. found objects appropriate for the different
all skill levels. C O U R S E F EE: $ 675 coast, lakes, backwaters and creeks. Each C O U R S E F EE: $ 4 5 0 mold making materials. Students will also
participant will leave class with their own experiment pulling forms from the molds
Mason Cooley operates a woodworking studio boat and a deeper understanding of boat Ana M. Lopez is an associate professor of with casting slip, clay, white plastic, wax,
in Western North Carolina where he designs construction. Please note that the boat kit Metalsmithing and Jewelry at the University of cement, paper pulp and pewter. Ceramists,
and builds custom furniture. He received his and materials fee is $1485.00 to $1585.00. North Texas. She holds an MFA in Metalsmithing sculptors, 3D Design instructors and K–12
BFA and MFA from the Art Center College of No boat building experience needed. Open from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and an teachers can benefit from participation.
Design in Pasadena, California. Aside from his to all skill levels. C O U R S E F EE: $115 5 MA in the History of American Decorative Arts Open to all skill levels. C O U R S E F EE: $ 6 0 0
professional career, he is an avid cyclist who from The Smithsonian Associates and Parsons
also explores philosophy, science and design. Bill Thomas is a designer, maker and teacher School of Design. Lopez is the author of the Paul Andrew Wandless is an artist, author,
Cooley’s interdisciplinary curiosities piqued his who lives in rural Maine. He has been a reference book Metalworking Through History: educator and curator based in Chicago, Illinois.
interest in building bamboo bicycle frames. self-employed custom woodworker and An Encyclopedia, as well as numerous other Wandless authored Image Transfer on Clay and
B A M B O O - B I K E - B U I L D. B LO G S P OT.C O M boatbuilder for 40 years. He designs kayaks, scholarly articles and presentations. 500 Prints on Clay, Image & Design Transfer
canoes and other small boats. Thomas teaches A N A M LO P E Z.C O M Techniques. He is featured in “Fundamentals
woodworking and boatbuilding in his own shop, of Screen Printing on Clay with Paul Andrew
at the WoodenBoat School, Arrowmont and Wandless.” He conducts workshops in clay,
across the U.S. B I L LT H O M A S M A K ER.C O M prints, sculptures, paintings and drawings.
S T U D I O 3 A R TC O M PA N Y.C O MSPECI A L TOPIC S
O C T O B E R 11 – 17 · O N E W E E K O C T O B E R 2 5 – 31 · O N E W E E K N OV E M B E R 8 – 14 · O N E W E E K
PETER D ELLE R T ELYS E - K R I S TA M I S C H E D O U G LOW M A N
R EU S E , R ECYC LE , R EG EN ER ATE: G O B I G: FR O M S K ET C H B O O K H A N DWOV EN C H A I R CA N I N G
S C U LP T U R E FR O M R ECYC LE D TO WA LL
M ATER I A L S During this workshop students will discover
In this workshop students will learn to the art and beauty of the handwoven chair
The goal of this workshop is to utilize transform small drawings into large scale caning craft. In addition to helping to revive
inexpensive recycled and found materials artworks. Class begins with drawing what has been called “a dying craft,” you
to design and create simple sculptures and exercises followed by participants creating will rejuvenate your antique chair into an
models for larger ones. Students will begin their own large canvas poster. You will honored family heirloom for your home.
with drawings, then proceed to making discover various enlargement methods During class, beginners will learn the
models scaled to reflect their ultimate including overhead and LED projection, seven-step traditional chair caning method
sculptures. During class, armatures of old-school artograph, grid methods and while advanced students will expand their
foam, wood and wire are covered along free hand. Students will become familiar knowledge with more complicated patterns,
with the use of various materials including with preferred drawing and painting such as the daisy pattern. Moderate hand
papier mache, plaster, cardboard, tin cans materials and will experiment with strength is required, and no recent shoulder,
and found objects. Shaping and forming different masking and stenciling techniques arm, or hand injuries are recommended.
these materials quickly and spontaneously, to add flare to their compositions. The class C O U R S E F EE: $ 675
participants will develop their artistic vision will culminate in creating a collaborative
through simple assignments and their own mural on the Arrowmont campus. Doug Lowman lives in Telford, Tennessee where
creativity. Hand tools will be used and Open to all skill levels. C O U R S E F EE: $ 6 0 0 he began chair caning after retirement from the
may include a bandsaw and a welder. No chemical industry. He is a member of the Seat
advanced tools or techniques are required. Elyse-Krista Mische is a mixed media artist, Weavers Guild, Tennessee Craft, Overmountain
Open to all skill levels. C O U R S E F EE: $ 6 0 0 Hospice caregiver and bird enthusiast from Weavers Guild and the Holston Valley
Appleton, Wisconsin. She participates in Woodworking Club. Lowman received
Educated as a biologist, Peter Dellert is a residencies nationwide and was a 2017–18 Best of Show and an Honorable Mention
furniture maker, sculptor and artist living in Arrowmont Artist-in-Residence. Elyse-Krista at Tennessee Craft Exhibitions for
Holyoke, Massachusetts. He has operated creates murals for Appleton businesses and his handwoven caned chairs.
a woodworking business since 1983. His has ongoing large-scale collaborations with FA C EB O O K .C O M /A P P R I D G E C H A I R S
work has been shown at ICFF and across Goodwill Industries of Wisconsin’s LGBTQ
the U.S. Dellert has taught at Arrowmont, Youth and Neighborhood Partners.
Haystack, Snow Farm and North Country L I F EP R O PA G A N D A .C O M
Studio Workshops. P E T ER D EL L ER T.C O M1313
“I had never been to Arrowmont before the Utilitarian Clay Symposium. I felt welcomed and immediately comfortable, from the very moment I arrived at Arrowmont. I am compelled to say how grateful, appreciative and downright happy I was to be a part such a special community of makers and thinkers. We all know the life of a studio potter can be quite isolating so having the opportunity to be surrounded by so much positive energy and like-mindedness was inspiring and refreshing. The future feels ripe with possibility and potential.” — DOUG P ELT Z M A N , U T I L I TA R I A N C L AY V I I P R ES EN T ER
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CL AY
Clay workshops continue to be one of Arrowmont’s most popular disciplines with 35 workshop
offerings in 2020. Peruse these courses and you will be sure to feel inspired to experience wheel-
throwing, handbuilding, functional and conceptual workshops with a focus on atmospheric firing,
surface decoration, narrative sculpture or figurative clay. And, mark your calendars! Arrowmont hosts
the eighth Utilitarian Clay VIII: Celebrate the Object National Symposium, September 9 – 12, 2020.
This symposium, held every four years since 1992, enjoys a national reputation in the
ceramics community. Visit Arrowmont’s website for more details.
H I S TO R I C A L N OT E: Arrowmont hosted the 1972 NCECA Conference. An estimated 700 clay
enthusiasts attended — and it snowed that spring weekend in Gatlinburg!CL AY
MARCH 26 – 29 · WEEKEND M AY 2 4 – 3 0 · O N E W E E K M AY 2 4 – 3 0 · O N E W E E K M AY 31 – J U N E 6 · O N E W E E K
AU D RY D E A L- M C E V ER M AT T R EP S H ER JA M I E B ATES S LO N E M A LLO RY W ET H ER ELL
PL AY I N G W I T H PAT TE R N: C R E AT I N G T H E R E ’ S A PAT TER N H ER E S C U LP T I N G T H E H U M A N FI G U R E C L AY A S A CA N VA S: G R A PH I C
O R N ATE S U R FAC E D ES I G N S O N C L AY I M AG ERY O N P O R C EL A I N
During this workshop students will In this workshop students will learn to
In this workshop students will explore develop pattern on vessel forms. Class view the human figure objectively by In this hands-on workshop students will
various ways to add rich surface pattern demonstrations include wheel throwing breaking it down into parts. You will begin experiment working with two- and three-
and design to clay through experiments and handbuilding techniques. Using these by sculpting the eyes, nose, mouth and ears dimensional objects. Participants begin
with carving, slip application and creating techniques as a foundation, participants creating multiple tiles and small vignettes. by creating simplified functional and/
their own stamps. You will learn tricks to will experiment with pattern to create This exercise leads to creating a complete or sculptural forms made from porcelain,
make the process less intimidating that multi-layered and creative surfaces. You portrait out of clay. Class discussions which will later serve as their canvas.
include producing stencils and guides will then move into surface treatments include exploration of the anatomy, Then you will learn how to convert found
and developing underglaze transfer paper using inlay and stencil methods with underlying bone structure, musculature, imagery into stencils to be transferred
techniques. The presentation of historic colored slips on greenware. All work will expression and surface. Participants will onto bone-dry clay. Working with a
and contemporary ceramics slideshows be made in cone 5 clays and be glaze fired also explore decorating their work with variety of underglaze washes allows you
will provide participants with contextual using a clear glaze in the electric kilns. underglazes using airbrushes and spray to build surface to paint detailed and
understanding of the many ways to use Students are encouraged to bring sketches guns. Open to all skill levels. realistic images on porcelain. Students are
surface design while creating opportunities and source materials that relate to forms C O U R S E F EE: $ 6 0 0 encouraged to bring to class a variety of
to discuss the elements of design. Open to and patterns. Both wheel throwing and printed images as reference during their
all skill levels. C O U R S E F EE: $ 6 0 0 handbuilding are encouraged. Open to Jamie Bates Slone is an assistant professor work. Open to all skill levels.
all skill levels. C O U R S E F EE: $ 6 0 0 of Ceramics at the University of Oklahoma. C O U R S E F EE: $ 6 0 0
Audry Deal-McEver is a potter from Nashville, She received her MFA from the University of
Tennessee. She has a BFA in Ceramics Matt Repsher is a long-term resident at the Kansas and a BFA from the University of Central Mallory Wetherell is an associate professor
from Ohio University and studied at Burg Penland School of Craft. He earned his BFA in Missouri. Her work addresses the fragility of the and head of Ceramics at the University of
Giebichenstein Hochschule für Kunst und Ceramics from Pennsylvania State University human spirit during physical and mental illness. Nebraska at Kearney. She holds an MFA from
Design in Halle, Germany. Her work has been in and an MFA from Indiana University. Repsher J A M I EB AT ES S LO N E.C O M the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
exhibitions as diverse as the American Museum has taught ceramics at Indiana University and and has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Tyler
of Ceramic Art, the Disjecta Contemporary Arts the University of New Mexico and he was a School of Art and the Archie Bray Foundation.
Center, and the Nashville International Airport. resident at Pocosin Arts in 2015. In 2014, Wetherell was named an emerging
Deal-McEver has taught at Middle Tennessee artist by Ceramics Monthly and she exhibits
State University and at community education her work widely, with recent shows in Georgia,
and workshop centers. AU D R Y D E A L M C E V ER.C O M Tennessee, California and Iowa.
M A L LO R Y W E T H ER EL L .C O M17
M AY 31 – J U N E 6 · O N E W E E K J U N E 7 – 13 · O N E W E E K J U N E 7 – 13 · O N E W E E K
XIA ZHANG R EB EC CA H U T C H I N S O N B R EN DA LI C H M A N
A TER R A C O T TA T H AT G R OW S DEVELOPING PERSONAL SCULPTUR AL “ S LI P ” I N T O S O DA FI R I N G
FORM INSPIRED BY PLACE
During this workshop students will During this workshop students
make their own chia form using terra In this workshop students will explore will discover approaches to creating
cotta. By learning and sharing tips and sculptural handbuilding skills, personal thrown and altered pottery using slip
tricks in handbuilding, participants form development and the use of form techniques that enhance forms fired in
will be encouraged to create their own inspiration from place. Demonstrations an atmospheric kiln. You will learn how
physical terra cotta form around the idea will include clay, fiber and paper clay to alter forms by pushing, pulling and
of their own mythology. During class preparation, along with fiber and clay manipulating clay while adding slip
you will discover that you are a complex building techniques. Participants will decoration. The class will cover flashing
creature and the sum of many things, be encouraged to develop individual slip techniques, in-depth discussions of
including beliefs, visual culture and your conceptual directions exploring the the soda firing process and glazing for the
surrounding environment. This class rigor of personal development and one’s soda kiln. Students should bring three to
is for students with cross interests in individual voice utilizing observed local five bisque fired pots that will be glazed
clay, horticulture and experimentation. form inspiration. The workshop will be and fired to cone 10 using the instructor’s
Intermediate experience level is necessary. balanced between harvesting content, slip and glaze recipes and engage in the
C O U R S E F EE: $ 6 0 0 demonstrations, discussions and studio loading and firing of Arrowmont’s soda
construction time. Open to all skill levels. kiln. Throwing skills preferred but not
Xia Zhang is a multidisciplinary artist and C O U R S E F EE: $ 6 0 0 necessary. C O U R S E F EE: $ 6 0 0
visiting assistant professor of Art at the
University of Tulsa. She earned her MFA in Rebecca Hutchinson is professor of Brenda Lichman is a studio potter in Wichita,
2015 and has completed residencies with Ceramics at the University of Massachusetts, Kansas. Her work has been exhibited in
Sonoma Ceramics, Vermont Studio Center, Dartmouth. Her sculptural work is shown notable exhibitions, such as the 23rd
Arrowmont and The Growlery. Zhang is always across the U.S. and internationally at Strictly Functional National, 50 Women:
in search of a good process and is interested museums in Taiwan, Italy and South Korea. A Celebration of Women’s Contribution to
in biographical and historical narratives and In 2015, she received the “Women to Watch” Ceramics and Heartland Table, an exhibition
anti-racism. X I AY Z H A N G.C O M recognition from the National Museum of project pairing potters with chefs. Lichman’s
Women in the Arts. Hutchinson has curated work has been published in Surface Design
and juried exhibitions and participated for Ceramics and 500 Teapots, Volume 2.
in residencies national and international B R EN D A L I C H M A N P OT T ER Y.C O M
residencies. R EB E C C A H U TC H I N S O N .C O MCL AY
J U N E 14 – 2 0 · O N E W E E K J U N E 21 – 27 · O N E W E E K J U LY 21 – 27 · O N E W E E K
MARK ERROL I S R A EL DAV I S S A LVA D O R J I M ÉN EZ- FLO R ES A N D CA S E Y W ELD O N
C L AY P O T S A N D C O LO R S P O T S O B JEC T S A N D I M AG ES R A S C UAC H E / S O U T H ER N K I T S C H : N A R R AT I V E S C U LP T U R E
In this workshop students will create forms This workshop explores the potential of Incorporating personal stories, history, narrative, symbolism and found objects, this
on the wheel and through handbuilding screen-printing to produce images that are workshop parallels the resourcefulness and resilience of both Rascuache and Southern-
while learning ways to activate the surfaces applied onto clay objects. Students will kitsch cultures. Rascuache and Southern kitsch come with loaded histories, contradictions
through a variety of techniques. You will use handbuilding and wheel-throwing and dichotomies. The goal is to reclaim, celebrate and study how these aesthetics make
learn about inlay, paper transfers, paper to produce pottery and sculptural works. the most of what is available to create fine art. Students will explore various handbuilding
masking, slip and underglaze layering and Screen-printed newsprint transfer methods methods, posting and stacking techniques, basic surface application, and assemblage.
gain knowledge on how these decorating with slips and underglazes are covered. Through demonstrations, slides, in-class activities, readings and group discussions, this
methods can join forces to bring high You will discover the necessary steps for course will be a constructive collaboration promoting a critical learning environment.
impact through low-tech methods. creating imagery in Photoshop, exposing Class conversations will focus on the content and context of student work. By making
Ultimately participants will add complexity screens and printing. Participants will also sculpture, students with an interest in culture, storytelling and self-identity will gain or
to their work with easy-to-learn and utilize screen drawing fluid and screen filler enhance their handbuilding skills, ceramic surface techniques, and ability to design and
affordable techniques. Open to all skill to produce images directly to screen. create a modular ceramic sculpture or installation. Open to all skill levels.
levels. C O U R S E F EE: $ 6 0 0 Open to all skill levels. C O U R S E F EE: $ 6 0 0 C O U R S E F EE: $ 6 0 0
Mark Errol is a full-time lecturer at Valdosta Israel Davis is an artist and educator from Salvador Jiménez-Flores is an interdisciplinary Casey Weldon is an artist and lives in Chicago
State University in Georgia, where he teaches Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has taught more artist and assistant professor in Ceramics at where she teaches at Lillstreet Art Center and
Ceramics and 3D Design. He is the co-owner than 40 workshops on his techniques both the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In his the Chicago Ceramic Center. Her extensive art
of Plough Gallery in Tifton, Georgia where nationally and internationally. Davis has been work, he explores the themes of colonization, education started at the Alabama School of
exceptional craft and fine art are showcased. included in over 100 exhibitions at such venues migration, “the other,” stereotypes and Fine Arts. She earned her BFA at the School
Errol is a ceramic artist who uses architecture, as the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New futurism. Jiménez-Flores is a recipient of grants of the Art Institute of Chicago where she
interior design and fashion as inspiration for Orleans, and at The Society for Contemporary from the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & graduated with the James Nelson Raymond
his work that is often brightly colored and Craft in Pittsburgh. His creative endeavors Sculptors and the New England Foundation for Fellowship Award. Weldon received her MFA at
utilitarian. He has exhibited both nationally include new works that combine ceramics, the Arts. S A LVA D O R J I M EN E Z F LO R ES .C O M Kendall College of Art and Design with a full-
and internationally. M A R K S M U D.C O M digital fabrication technologies and mixed ride fellowship. KC W EL D O N .C O M
media. I S R A EL D AV I S .C O M19
J U N E 2 8 – J U LY 11 · T W O W E E K S J U N E 2 8 – J U LY 11 · T W O W E E K S J U LY 19 – 2 5 · O N E W E E K J U LY 19 – 2 5 · O N E W E E K
D O U G JEPPES EN C U R T L AC R O S S M AG DA G LU S ZEK K ATE M AU RY
LI G H T I T U P: WO O D CA P T U R I N G T H E H U M A N B O DY L A N G UAG E O R N ATE O B JEC T S A N D T H E
FI R I N G T H E T R A I N K I LN ELEM EN T I N C L AY EM B ELLI S H ED A S S EM B L AG E
The body is an amazing vehicle for
During this workshop students will create In this workshop students will learn emotional expression. Subtle gestures, This workshop will explore ornate
their work and then fire it in Arrowmont’s about the unconventional methods they such as flexed toes or curled fingers, surface embellishment and a variety of
train kiln. Through class demonstrations, can use to fabricate life-like subjects in can be used to communicate rich visual construction methods through press molds
slide talks and class discussions, you will clay. Techniques covered include how to narratives. During this workshop students and slip casting. Students will create press
explore the ideas of making work for a build realistic subjects through various will produce one full-figure sculpture molds from objects they bring to class as
wood firing. Discussions will include glaze surface techniques. During the first week, with a solid building technique, which well as assemblages from slip cast craft
and non-glaze surface treatments and participants will explore the possibilities they will learn to hollow and reassemble. molds they own. The exploration of surface
strategies for placing work in the kiln for of working on an armature. Discussions Basic proportions and anatomy are through press molded textures enhances
a desired outcome. Post firing treatment include anatomy, the construction process demonstrated, as are the use of a simple hand-built objects (and wheel thrown
of the kiln and the work will be covered, and conceptual development. The second armature. Small maquette studies will work) and assemblages from slip casted
along with the allusive idea of “making week will be spent refining your sculptures be created and used for inspiration and objects from hobby molds can be altered
it” as an artist. No prior wood firing and delving into the post firing processes surface experimentation. Participants may or added to create a dynamic narrative.
experience is necessary. Open to all skill to achieve strikingly cosmetic exteriors. take their finished green-ware home. Bring Participants will be encouraged to explore
levels. C O U R S E F EE: $10 5 0 Students will be introduced to new visual inspiration to class in the form of and improvise. Open to all skill levels.
approaches on how to address surface and images or sketches. Open to all skill levels. C O U R S E F EE: $ 6 0 0
Doug Jeppesen is an associate professor discuss working with resins and various C O U R S E F EE: $ 6 0 0
of Art at Waubonsee Community College in acrylics. Open to all skill levels. Kate Maury lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota where
Sugar Grove, Illinois. He holds a BA and BFA C O U R S E F EE: $10 5 0 Magda Gluszek earned an MFA from the she is a studio resident at the Northern Clay
from the University of Tulsa, and an MFA from University of Florida in 2008. She lives in Center and teaches full time as a professor in
Northern Illinois University. Jeppesen has Curt LaCross has a BFA from Central Michigan Lakeside, Arizona, where she is on the Art the School of Art and Design at the University
presented at the International Wood Firing University and an MFA in Ceramics from faculty and is gallery director at Northland of Wisconsin-Stout. Maury received a BFA from
Conference at Northern Arizona University and Michigan State University. While LaCross’ work Pioneer College. Her hikes and travels inspire the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from
the Second European Wood Fire Conference focuses on the external figurative form, it speaks her artwork. Gluszek has been a resident artist the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred
at Guladagergaard International Ceramic of the internal human psyche. His interest grew at Arrowmont as well as in Greece, Spain and University. Her work is featured in both juried and
Research Center in Skaelskor, Denmark. He also after researching Carl Jung and the archetypal Italy. Her artwork has been exhibited nationally invitational shows at national and international
organized and hosted the 2016 International image. He is particularly interested in the and internationally. M I S S M A G D A G.C O M venues and is an exploration of surface and
Wood Fire Conference at Waubonsee shadow archetype and its presence in human assembled cast objects. K AT EM A U R Y.C O M
Community College. D O U G J EP P ES EN .C O M nature. I N S TA G R A M: @T H EB U L L D OZ ERCL AY
J U LY 2 6 – A U G U S T 1 · O N E W E E K J U LY 2 6 – A U G U S T 1 · O N E W E E K AUGUST 2 – 8 · ONE WEEK
T H O M A S LU CA S A N D DAV I D T O D D T R O S T NAN SMITH J O S EPH PI N T Z
PR I N T A N D C L AY FI G U R AT I O N: S T Y LE A N D VO I C E B I S Q U E M O LD B A S I C S
During this workshop students will experiment with drawing and printing images on In this workshop students will learn how to In this workshop students will design
clay by hand using a range of techniques including screenprinting, relief and lithography. create content and drama in a sculpted self- their own bisque molds and create hand-
You will utilize simple tools to develop image and text compositions on both flat and portrait. The goal is to create a resonant, built earthenware vessels with a strong
curved surfaces. Using low fire clays, drawing and transfer of images through printing will anatomically correct likeness that reflects emphasis on form. The focus is on the
allow for participants to create tiles, vessels and sculptural form. This can serve as a canvas style and voice. Participants begin by creative exploration of form rather than
for color, shape, mark-making, photographic images and pattern. Participants will use making plaster body casts to be used as finished results. You will explore the use
different clay slips, stains, and modified underglaze and glazes on mainly low-temp clay perceptual tools, along with photographs of terra sigillata and glaze on utilitarian or
bodies with the firing done in electric kilns. Expect a wide range of results. Open to all and life drawings. Using various elements sculptural work and get preliminary results
skill levels. C O U R S E F EE: $ 6 0 0 including depth, clarity and light, students fired in the electric kiln. Participants will
will use facial expression, gesture, clothing also prepare a low-temperature soda firing.
Thomas Lucas is the founder and master David Todd Trost is a ceramic artist and and ornamentation to interpret personality, Open to all skill levels. C O U R S E F EE: $ 6 0 0
printer of Hummingbird Press Editions and educator based in Chicago, Illinois. He is create mood and evoke content for their
is an assistant professor at Chicago State the director of the Ceramics Department at sculpture. Class discussions include Joseph Pintz teaches at the University of
University. He has taught at the Tyler School of Lillstreet Art Center. He received his MFA at sculpting style and narrative image Missouri in Columbia and earned his BA at
Art, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and making. Students will depart with a solid Northwestern University and an MFA at the
the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, the a BFA at Pennsylvania State University. Trost modelled sculpture, color glaze tests University of Nebraska, Lincoln. His ceramic
Penland School of Craft, Arrowmont, and Ox- has spent the last 18 years teaching at various and life casts, plus an understanding of work explores the role that domestic objects
bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency. Lucas universities and art centers throughout the armatures, plaster and rubber molds. Open play in fulfilling our physical and emotional
has had exhibitions at Chicago State University; Chicago area. D AV I DTO D DT R O S T.C O M to all skill levels. C O U R S E F EE: $ 6 0 0 needs. Pintz has been a resident artist at the
South Side Community Art Center, Chicago; Archie Bray Foundation and the Roswell Artist-
Elmhurst College; N’Namdi Contemporary, Nan Smith is a figure sculptor and installation artist in-Residence program. I C O N C ER A M I C S .C O M
Miami; and in Skopelos Greece, Isreal and in Gainesville, Florida. As professor emerita at the
Morelia Mexico. T H O M A S - L U C A S .C O M University of Florida, Smith has received numerous
awards including the UF Doctoral Mentor Advisor
Award, UF Research Foundation Professor and
SEF Regional Fellowship in Sculpture. She is a
four-time recipient of the Florida Arts Council Artist
Fellowship and has served as juried Lark Books’
500 Figures. N A N S M I T H .C O M21
O C T O B E R 4 – 10 · O N E W E E K O C T O B E R 4 – 10 · O N E W E E K O C T O B E R 11 – 17 · O N E W E E K
ANNE K. BEYER S TEPH A N I E L A N TER O S A AT O E
T R A I N A N D R ETA I N S LI PPE RY: A N A LO G 3 D LE A R N I N G FR O M C L AY ’ S
PR I N T I N G I N C L AY G R A D I EN T O F PL A S T I C I T Y
The focus of this workshop is on firing
the train wood kiln. Students will gain During this workshop students will In this workshop students will discover
knowledge of systematic material testing discover slip trailing, traditionally a how to utilize each of clay’s phases of
and experimentation. Through each stage decorative surfacing process in ceramics, as plasticity from liquid to bone dry. This
of the process, you will document your the foundation for building sculptural form. will make your work easier and allow you
work through kiln logs and reference Students interested in seeing linear drawing to create more complex functional pieces
photographs. After the firing, the class emerge from flatness or in exploring a of pottery. Participants will learn how to
will examine the outcomes and reflect on handmade, manual, low-tech version control moisture in their pieces and to
the results as a group. Discussions include of digitally designed and mechanically take advantage of the crucial phases of clay
glaze application, loading techniques and produced 3D prints will enjoy this new- such as the soft leather hard phase. During
firing strategies. Participants should bring but-old technique. From making the class valuable information will be shared
cone 10 stoneware or porcelain bisque ware paper clay slip, developing blueprints, and including trimming, forming handles
pieces from home and be prepared to learn making plaster matrices to engineering, and spouts and clay skill vocabulary.
and burn. Open to all skill levels. construction, risk taking, coloring, firing, This workshop is particularly helpful for
C O U R S E F EE: $ 6 0 0 and presenting small pieces, participants will students who only have weekly access to
pause, learn between the lines, and examine clay outside of class. Wheel throwers and
Anne K. Beyer is an adjunct professor of their personal vocabularies. Open to all skill handbuilders are welcome. Open to all
Ceramics at the Paducah School of Art and levels, however basic knowledge of ceramics skill levels. C O U R S E F EE: $ 6 0 0
Design. She earned her BFA from Albion is helpful. C O U R S E F EE: $ 6 0 0
College and an MFA from Indiana University. Osa Atoe lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and
Beyer spent the years in between firing a Stephanie Lanter is assistant professor of is a musician turned ceramicist, making mostly
variety of wood kilns. She is currently designing Ceramics at Emporia State University. She has functional work for a living. She began taking
and building an anagama at her home studio in an MFA from Ohio University and a BA from community clay lessons in 2013 and completed
the countryside. A N N EK B E Y ER.C O M Xavier University. Lanter has exhibited work a post-baccalaureate program for ceramics at
internationally, published writings and taught Louisiana State University in 2018.
since 2000. She has had residencies at the P OT T ER Y BYO S A .C O M
Archie Bray Foundation, Red Lodge Clay Center,
Anderson Ranch, and more, and is an active
Artaxis member. S T EP H A N I EL A N T ER.C O MCL AY
O C T O B E R 11 – 17 · O N E W E E K O C T O B E R 18 – 2 4 · O N E W E E K O C T O B E R 18 – 2 4 · O N E W E E K
ANDREA MOON TAY LO R R O B EN A LT B I LL W I LK E Y
F O R M A N D L AY ER S T O RY TELLI N G W I T H TE A P OT S R O U G H A N D R E FI N ED: A
A N D T I N Y S C U LP T U R ES G U I D E TO FI N D I N G F O R M
During this workshop students will
explore various handbuilding methods In this workshop students will discover the During this workshop students will
constructing layered textures to form basic components of handbuilding and will focus on creations being made both on
sculptural structures. Coil building, create unique teapots and tiny sculptures and off the wheel. Demonstrations will
press-mold casting, the dowel method and based on their personal narratives. You include sketching, designing molds for
pinching will be demonstrated to create will explore conceptual ideas and the use handbuilding tableware and throwing.
multiple parts. During class you will of symbols in your work while learning Participants will use reductive processes to
construct an abstract, figurative or layered to hand build, underglaze, glaze and refine forms while adding slips and glaze
small-scale sculpture with innovative, luster. Demonstrations will include how that accentuate the soda firing process.
hand-built components. Discussions will to construct in porcelain and navigate Bring to class your enthusiasm and love of
focus on different types of handbuilding its intricacies. Participants will receive making pottery. Open to all skill levels.
clay recipes, oxides, and slips and glazes individualized instruction regarding C O U R S E F EE: $ 6 0 0
related to firing schedules. Bring your their work and goals throughout class.
sketchbook to engage in an exciting Be ready to sculpt with porcelain and Bill Wilkey is a studio artist living in Helena,
perspective on form and pattern. Pieces create amazing, fun art that tells a story. Montana. He received his MFA from the
will be bisque fired only. Open to all skill Open to all skill levels. C O U R S E F EE: $ 6 0 0 University of Missouri, Columbia and a BFA from
levels, however some prior experience in East Tennessee State University. Wilkey exhibits
clay is helpful. C O U R S E F EE: $ 6 0 0 Taylor Robenalt is a professional artist who nationally and has been featured in Ceramics
lives in Sarasota, Florida and teaches at the Monthly as an Emerging Artist, as well as a
Andrea Moon is the director of education at Ringling College of Art and Design. Robenalt cover article for Pottery Making Illustrated. He
Craft Alliance Center of Art + Design and a won the International Residency Award from was also the recipient of the Joan Lincoln and
studio artist. She received her MFA from Texas NCECA to travel to Vallauris, France during Lillstreet Fellowships as a long-term resident
Tech University and a BFA from Bowling Green the summer of 2019. In 2020, she will show at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic
State University. She lectures and exhibits at NCECA and have a solo show at the Canton Arts. W I L K E YA R T S .C O M
nationally and internationally. Moon believes Museum of Art. She is represented by national
in supporting an active craft community and galleries. TAY LO R R O B EN A LTC ER A M I C S .C O M
cultivating a creative environment for students
and emerging artists. A N D R E A L M O O N .C O M23
O C T O B E R 2 5 – 31 · O N E W E E K O C T O B E R 2 5 – 31 · O N E W E E K N OV E M B E R 1 – 7 · O N E W E E K N OV E M B E R 8 – 14 · O N E W E E K
S A N DY B L A I N TO D D PLET C H ER B R ET T B E A S LE Y H P B LO O M ER
H A N D B U I L D I N G: I D E A S A N D FI R I N G T H E WO O D K I LN I F I T ’ S N OT FU N , W H Y B OT H ER ? S O DA FI R I N G: C O LO R FU L S U R FAC ES
TEC H N I Q U ES F O R D E V ELO PI N G
F O R M S A N D S U R FAC ES During this workshop students will load In this workshop students will learn the During this workshop students will
and fire the train kiln and learn how to fundamentals of wheel thrown pottery. learn about making, glazing and creating
In this workshop students will explore ways prepare their work with glazes, slips and During class you will also work through decorated surfaces for the soda kiln.
to make functional ceramic pieces personal wadding. When the work is prepped, technical issues that could impede your The class will cover making forms that
and expressive. You will use hand built (slab, participants will load and fire the kiln. creative process. There will be guided best work for the glazing techniques.
coil, press-mold) and wheel components Demonstrations include making a variety exercises and participants will receive Demonstrations concentrate on glaze
to construct composite forms. Surface of work for a wood firing with an emphasis personalized attention. Works that have application, masking, sourcing inspiration,
markings and textures may be developed, on fluid forms. Class discussions cover been properly dried will be bisque fired. firing and loading as well as some basic
altered, or enriched utilizing additive and/ various kiln designs, firing techniques and Open to all skill levels. C O U R S E F EE: $ 6 0 0 making methods. Various firing methods
or subtractive processes. Class discussions cooling cycles while firing the kiln. After will also be discussed. Students should
will cover form, surface and appendage the firing, you will have an opportunity to Brett Beasley has taught Ceramics classes bring their own bisque ware. This class
possibilities including handles, feet, and make work alongside the instructor as the ranging from formal academia to community requires basic ceramic skills.
lips and their relationship to historical kiln cools. No prior wood firing experience cultural centers. He earned his BFA from the C O U R S E F EE: $ 6 0 0
and cultural pieces. Demonstrations will is required for the workshop. Open to all University of Florida and an MFA in Ceramics
include how to make cups, vases, pitchers, skill levels. C O U R S E F EE: $ 6 0 0 from East Carolina University. He has been HP Bloomer is adjunct professor at Colorado
butter dishes, bowls and open weave forms. an active member of the National Council on Mountain College in Aspen, Colorado. He
Your pieces will be bisque fired only with Todd Pletcher is the facilities development Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) since attended the University of North Texas and
discussions about slips, oxides and glaze director at Clay by the Bay in San Francisco, 2011. Beasley exhibits his artwork at both the received his BFA and an MFA in Ceramics. His
related to your firing temperature. Open California. He received his BFA from Goshen national and regional level. work focuses on highly decorated utilitarian
to all skill levels, however some clay College in 2005 and was a full-time studio B E A S L E YC ER A M I C S .C O M forms which draw inspiration from his interest
experience is necessary. C O U R S E F EE: $ 6 0 0 potter until moving to his current position in architecture, painters and designers who
in San Francisco. Pletcher was a Ceramic’s explore a relationship with the land and nature.
Sandy Blain is professor emerita of Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artist in 2015 and his work is He has been an Artist-in-Residence at The
at UT in Knoxville, and director emerita at shown internationally. P L E TC H ER P OT T ER Y.C O M Carbondale Clay Center, Arrowmont and at the
Arrowmont. She remains active at the Arizona Cobb Mountain Art & Ecology Project.
State University Ceramics Research Center. Blain H P B LO O M ER.C O M
serves as adjunct faculty at the Mesa Art Center
and as a consultant to national arts organizations.
S A N DY B L A I N .C O MCL AY
N OV E M B E R 8 – 14 · O N E W E E K N OV E M B E R 15 – 21 · O N E W E E K N OV E M B E R 15 – 21 · O N E W E E K
M AT T H E W D E R C O LE LY N N ET TE H ES S ER A N D S TE V E LO U C KS LY N N E H O B A I CA
N A R R AT I V E A N I M A L S S E RV E W I T H FI N ES S E O N T H E S U R FAC E / O FF T H E S U R FAC E
In this workshop students will create During this workshop students will learn to improve their throwing, handbuilding and In this workshop students will explore
animals with clay and use simple armatures glazing skills while making unique dishes for serving. You will discover how to alter bowl building narrative pots using various
to build solid clay forms. You will consider and cylinder forms by darting, stretching, reforming and assembling them. This will be handbuilding techniques including slab
pose and expression with the form, learn followed by participants embellishing their creation with carvings, sprigs, lids, handles building, coiling, pinching and bisque
techniques for adding detail, then hollow and more. Various clay methods will be demonstrated, and discussions include design molds. You will begin the narrative by
out and examine finishing possibilities. concepts and glazing techniques. Individual instruction is offered as well as assistance in attaching sculptural elements that extend
Demonstrations will include glazing glazing student’s individual pieces. The serving dishes finished in time will be glazed and off the surface of the form. The narrative
and coloring of eyes, animal anatomy, fired to cone 6 in the electric kiln while making wonderful serving dishes throughout the continues by painting and carving on the
specialized tools and use of mixed week. Open to all skill levels. C O U R S E F EE: $ 6 0 0 surface and building up colorful imagery
media. Discussions will include the use through layers of underglaze and slip. The
of narrative elements of the sculptures. Lynnette Hesser is a full-time artist working Steve Loucks is professor emeritus from class includes strategies and resources for
Previous experience with clay not required. in the studio with husband, Steve Loucks, in Jacksonville State University and a full-time participants to develop ideas and build
Open to all skill levels. C O U R S E F EE: $ 6 0 0 Wellington, Alabama. She holds a BA from studio potter and ceramic artist. He received confidence in their ability to draw and
Denison University in Granville, Ohio, a BFA and his MFA from the New York State College encouragement to approach making with
Matthew Dercole works as an instructor and MFA from the University of Florida, and an MSEd of Ceramics at Alfred and his BFA from the playfulness and curiosity. Open to all skill
technician in Ceramics at the University of from Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana. He levels. C O U R S E F EE: $ 6 0 0
Hartford. He received his MFA in Ceramics from Alabama. She received the Alabama State was the winner of the Alabama State Council
the University of Iowa. He has participated as Council on the Arts Fellowship in Crafts in 2011. on the Arts Craft Fellowship twice and the Lynne Hobaica lives in the Blue Ridge
an Artist-in-Residence at the Lux Center for the LY N N E T T EH ES S ER C ER A M I C S .C O M Southern Arts Federation Endowment for the Mountains of North Carolina. She received her
Arts, Lillstreet Art Center, Rebuild Foundation, Arts. S T E V ELO U C K S P OT T ER Y.C O M BFA from Syracuse University and an MFA in
Arrowmont and Watershed Center for the Conceptual Ceramic Sculpture at the University
Ceramic Arts. Dercole has held instructor of Art and Design in Linz, Austria. Hobaica
positions in Ceramics at multiple art centers has exhibited work in the U.S. and abroad,
and universities across the U.S. participated in national and international
M AT T H E W D ER C O L E.C O M residencies, interned at museums and worked
in galleries. LY N N EH O B A I C A . N E TYou can also read
