Paloma Clay Studio, San Miguel De Allende, Mexico
February 23-28, 2025
Tip Toland
What's On Your Mind? Portrait and Other
This will be a 5 day workshop where we will build a life size anatomical head and combine it with something else of each artists choosing, which speaks to what is on your mind. It could be a portrait of you or someone who is thinking or concerned with something particular. We will build a life size solid clay head as well as the other piece to be combined with it, hollow it out and fire it. Because it is a 5 day workshop we won’t have time to paint it, but we can create a one of a kind double portrait.
Students are encouraged to bring photos of the head they’d like to sculpt as well as what they ‘d like to combine with their head. Lots of demos and brainstorming will be readily available.
Full
March 16-21, 2025
Tony Clennell
Finding Your Voice: Casual Work and Extreme Handles
It has been said that you can learn to make pottery in 7 years or Malcolm Gladwell's 10,000-hour theory. It then takes another 7 years to develop a signature. This course is about making and critically looking at what you are making and what you would like to make. Everything you take home will be in your head with enough new information on the making process to keep you growing in your studio practice.
Individual and group critiques are part of the process and will begin with a look at what we made the day before. Usually, a morning coffee break is a good time to talk pots.
My signature that has developed over the past 45 years is casual pots with extreme handles. This is of course the course's subtitle "Casual Work and Extreme Handles".
Full
April 6-11, 2025
Richard Burkett
Sprigs, Jigs & Pouring Pots: Beyond Round!
Join Richard Burkett for a lively workshop that’s focused on throwing and assembling functional pots that can pour: teapots, ewers, pitchers, decanters, soy/oil servers, and more. Plan to work on your throwing and design skills, and learn new ways to alter thrown forms creatively. We’ll explore many ways to make spouts, and what features help a spout pour well. Along with all that are lids, knobs, and handles that work well with all of those pots. We’ll also discuss ideas to create containers to go with the pouring pots.
Sprigging can add low-relief raised images and patterns to the clay surface that accents nicely through glazes. We’ll carve some simple sprig molds in clay and/or plaster to use. Jigs are ways to create clay forms more easily, including handles and spouts, adding to other options like extruding spouts, handles and feet.
