Washington Street Studios provides an affordable, fully equipped studio space for aspiring, emerging, and established artists to share their creative energy and knowledge in an environment designed to support the creative process.
A Bill van Gilder Workshop
Creating Functional Pots: Expert Tips, Tools & Techniques for Throwing and Hand-Building
Service Description
Every potter has a list of WHAT they want to make. HOW to make it is often the question. During this two+ day information-loaded demo workshop Bill will share more than 50 making techniques in answer to these ‘how-to’ questions; techniques participants will want to use and adjust to fit their own future work. During day one, shortcuts, tips, tool-use and throwing techniques at the wheel will be shared during demo after demo. Hand-building functional forms will be the focus during day two of the workshop: lots of projects and construction techniques for hand-builders. Demonstrated techniques at the wheel may include: - Efficient hand positions for centering and throwing - Throwing tall techniques - Simple tools and their use - Lid arrangements and form - Spout, rim, and lip making and proportions - Trimming and foot-finishing possibilities - Faceting and fluting as decoration - Handles and lugs; pulled and hand-built - Making bottle forms; collaring-in techniques - Making dinnerware; throwing and trimming - Making squared and oval baking ware - Wet, thick slip decoration - And more… A sampling of forms to be demonstrated; - Altered ovenware - Pitcher and pouring pots - Cups and mugs - Bowl forms - Dinnerware: making plates - Bottle and vase forms - Lidded forms Hand-building demonstrations will include; - Making oval slab platters & slump frames - Making platters using hump molds - Humped squared slab plate making - Foot attachment possibilities; slab, sprigged, coiled and pressed - Slab decorating; wet slip, pressed, and textured - The ‘quick’ cylinder-making technique - Making hand-built handles Friday: 6:30pm - 8:30pm, Meet and Greet and Artist Talk Saturday: 9am - 4pm Workshop Day 1 Sunday: 9:30 - 4:00pm Workshop Day 2 A discussion about glazes and clays will take place during the workshop, if requested. Bill’s ^6 oxidation/electric glazes, ^8-9-10 reduction glazes, salt/soda/wood-firing slips and glazes, washes and decorating pigments recipe sheets will be provided to each participant. To get to know each other we’ll start the workshop with a 2-hr. show of images and artist talk during a Friday evening meet-and-greet. A selection of Bill’s potter’s hand-tools (van Gilder ClayTools) and a sampling of his current clay work will be available for participants’ purchase.
Cancellation Policy
Cancellation and refund policy: If you cancel your participation 15 days or more prior to the workshop, you are eligible for a full refund. If you cancel your participation 8-14 prior to the workshop, you are eligible for a 50% refund. If you cancel your participation seven days or less prior to the workshop, you are not eligible for a refund.
Contact Details
1441 West Washington Street, Bolivar, WV, USA
Creating Functional Pots: Expert Tips, Tools & Techniques for Throwing and Hand-Building
Ended
265 US dollars