2019 WORKSHOPS
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WELCOME TO ARROWMONT IMPORTANT DATES AT A GLANCE
“I want to live in a society where people are intoxicated with the joy of making things.” — WILLIAM S. COPERTHWAITE ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE In 2019, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts will offer over 160 workshops where students and APPLICATION DEADLINE instructors will make things. But while creating paintings, baskets, sculptures, quilts, jewelry, February 1, 2019 wooden vessels, books, chairs, musical instrument, clay vessels and much more, students will be researching, problem-solving, designing — and exploring concepts, techniques and materials. It is EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE through learning and the creative process that the joy is realized. The world shapes us and we must REGISTRATION FEE OF $50 IS find ways to shape the world. Be a maker. WAIVED FOR EARLY REGISTRATION February 1, 2019 “A community is a group of people who agree to grow together.” — SIMON SINEK EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANTS Students, instructors, staff, artists-in-residence, volunteers, and educational assistants form the PROGRAM APPLICATION DEADLINE creative community that is the heart of the “Arrowmont Experience.” People come together in March 1, 2019 settings which encourage the exchange of ideas and a shared sense of accomplishment. These settings extend outside the studios. Arrowmont’s campus allows students in one studio to visit and SCHOLARSHIP interact, even collaborate, with those working in other media. The galleries, library, dining hall, APPLICATION DEADLINE porches, and quiet gathering places throughout campus provide opportunity for research, March 1, 2019 reflection, and conversation. Growth occurs inside and outside the studios. We grow together. Please check the website “We meet no ordinary people in our lives.” — C.S. LEWIS arrowmont.org for updated deadlines as some scholarships As I begin my ninth year as Arrowmont’s executive director, I find this quote to be relevant and have a rolling deadline and true. Having met and become friends with a wide variety of instructors, students, and supporters, others may re-open mid- it is apparent that every person has a story and every person has something to contribute. I am summer for Fall applicants often asked, “Do I have to be an ‘artist’ to come to Arrowmont?” My answer: “Arrowmont is a school, a place where people learn. The only requirements are a desire to learn and improve skills, a respect for others, a willingness to share with others, and the intention to live a creative life.” Whether one is a university professor or student, a professional artist with work in museum collections, or a person who has just found the time, courage or passion to learn something new, we are all explorers.
We all have much to discover about the world, others, and ourselves. Please join Arrowmont’s creative community this year.
BILL MAY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
PS: We have a new entry, upgraded studios, and a new dormitory with private baths.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
WELCOME 1 ARROWMONT HISTORY 66
SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE 4 GALLERY & EXHIBITIONS 67
TWO WEEK SESSIONS 6 COMMUNITY PROGRAMS 67
WEEKEND SESSIONS 6 EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANTS PROGRAM 68
SPECIAL TOPICS 9 SCHOLARSHIPS 69
CLAY 15 WORKSHOP BASICS 70
2-D ARTS: DRAWING · PAINTING · PAPER & HOUSING & MEALS 71 BOOKS · PRINTMAKING · PHOTOGRAPHY 25
REGISTRATION & WORKSHOP FEES 72 FIBERS · TEXTILES · BASKETS 35
METALS · GLASS · ENAMELS 45
WOOD 57 2019 SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE SPECIAL TOPICS CLAY DRAWING · PAINTING · PAPER & BOOKS · PRINTMAKING · PHOTOGRAPHY
APRIL 11 – 14 (WEEKEND) Mark Hendry · Reagan Bitler Brian Nettles Derick Tickle · Becky Dickovitch
JUNE 2 – 8 Zeke Leonard Matt Long · Brian Harper Charles Clary · Samantha Fields
JUNE 9 – 15 Mark Errol · Andréa Keys Connell Naomi S. Velasquez · Gary Chapman
JUNE 16 – 22 Misty Gamble Emmy Lingscheit
JUNE 23 – 29 Liz Zlot Summerfield Cornel Rubino
Beth Ireland & Keunho Peter Park JUNE 30 – JULY 13 (TWO WEEKS) · Geoffrey Gorman Josh Copus · Richard W. James Jana Pullman · Erin Anfinson
Molly Grant · Jane Wells Ronan Peterson & Teresa Pietsch · Holly Roberts · Danielle MuŽina JULY 21 – 27 Harrison & Jerry Jackson Bobby Scroggins
JULY 28 – AUGUST 3 Austin Riddle · Jon McMillan Leigh Suggs · Grant Benoit
AUGUST 4 – 10 Jake Weigel Steven Cheek · Seth Green Natalie Stopka · Jave Yoshimoto
AUGUST 11 – 17 Heesoo Lee · Sunshine Cobb Gretchen Schermerhorn · Lorraine Glessner
SEPTEMBER 29 – OCTOBER 5 Ted Green · Melisa Cadell Holly Fouts · Sean Hurley · Lynda Ray
OCTOBER 6 – 12 Jason Hess · Kari Radasch Diana CalderÓn
OCTOBER 13 – 19 Molly Grant Adrienne Eliades Courtney Cerruti · Dale Leys
OCTOBER 20 – 26 Stuart Gair · Jeremy Randall Eleanor Aldrich
OCTOBER 27 – NOVEMBER 2 Linda Christianson · Tom Bartel Jenny Day
NOVEMBER 3 - 9 Sherri Warner Hunter · Suze Lindsay · Margaret Bohls Claudia Lee · Leslie A. Grossman Nicole HaveKost
NOVEMBER 14 - 17 (WEEKEND) Tracy Gamble Kelly Hider FIBERS · TEXTILES · BASKETS METALS · GLASS · ENAMELS WOOD 5
Kelly Kye Maia Leppo · Maureen Aderman Scarlette Rouse
Jody Alexander · Bill Roeder Emily Cobb · Amy Roper Lyons Stephen Hatcher
Erin Castellan Jaydan Moore · Holly Cooper Nick Agar · Brandy Clements
Gabrielle Duggan · Katarina Riesing · Nicole Jacquard · Kathleen Wilcox David Ellsworth · Charlie Ryland Lois Russell
Marianne Fairbanks · Jeana Eve Klein Juan Carlos Caballero-Perez · Gail Nelson Tally Locke · Curtis O. Seebeck & Don Ward
Wendy Osterweil Robert Ebendorf Steve Loar & Dixie Biggs
Susan Fecho Adam Hawk · Thomas Lucas Alan Trout
Tim Lazure · Jennifer Allen & Maia Leppo Jacques Vesery · Miriam Carpenter
Maggie Casey · Jennifer Sargent Felicia Szorad · Jason Chakravarty & Avelino Samuel Jennifer Caldwell
Jennifer Reis John Cogswell · Sara Sally LaGrand Peggy Schmid · Sophie Glenn
Elizabeth Busch Joanna Gollberg · Ashley Gilreath J. Paul Fennell
Amy Taylor · Clay Burnette Mary Hettmansperger · Ricky Frank Brian Horais · Kristin LeVier
Carol Colburn · Polly Barton Harlan Butt Aaron Hammer
Leisa Rich · Bryant Holsenbeck Lauren Markley · Sean Hennessey Jeanne Douphrate · Brian Fireman
Lissa Hunter · Elizabeth Odiorne Nikki Couppee · Robert Dancik Al Stirt · Sarah Marriage
Rudolph Lopez · Sabiha Mujtaba
Carin Engen · Ben Venom · Jeanne Brady Anne Bujold ∙ Carrie Iverson Steve Cook · James Duxbury SPECIAL SESSIONS
WEEKEND SESSIONS
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.
APRIL 11 – 14, 2019 NOVEMBER 14 – 17, 2019
MAUREEN ADERMAN JEANNE BRADY FUSED GLASS – ALTERED SURFACES P.47 CREATIVE APPROACHES TO BLOCK CARVING & PRINTING ON FABRIC P.42 REAGAN BITLER FROM THE GARDEN TO THE GALLERY: ANNE BUJOLD CREATING FUNCTIONAL ART FROM GOURDS P.8 FORMING FLORAL FORMS P.54 TWO WEEK SESSIONS BECKY DICKOVITCH STEVE COOK In addition to one-week and weekend workshops, Arrowmont offers two-week sessions for those ENCAUSTIC: SO MUCH MORE THAN WAX! P.26 COLOR AND TEXTURE FOR GIFTS AND HOME media, techniques and projects that need more than one week to complete or to achieve proficiency. P.65 The two-week session instructors are masters in their disciplines, exceptional teachers, and are MARK HENDRY university professors and working professional artists. These workshops offer the opportunity to take THE ART OF BROOM MAKING P.8 JAMES DUXBURY advantage of Arrowmont’s location at the gateway to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park MAGIC OF ECCENTRIC ARTISTRY P.65 and to immerse yourself in a unique experience. KELLY KYE QUILT BLOCKS: VARIATION ON A THEME P.36 CARIN ENGEN TEXTURE AND DESIGN IN NUNO FELTING P.43 JUNE 30 – JULY 13, 2019 MAIA LEPPO STEEL JEWELRY P.46 TRACY GAMBLE ERIN ANFINSON RICHARD W. JAMES GLAZING WITH TRACY / ADVENTURES WAX, PAPER, SCISSORS: EXPLORING CERAMIC FIGURE DISSECTED P.18 BRIAN NETTLES WITH AMACO CONE 5/6 GLAZE LINES P.23 ENCAUSTIC & PAPER P.28 POTS ON AND OFF THE WHEEL P.16 STEVE LOAR & DIXIE BIGGS KELLY HIDER JOSH COPUS TECHNIQUES FOR DEVELOPING SCARLETTE ROUSE LAYERING: IMAGE, PAINT, AND COLLAGE P.33 WOOD FIRE WORKS P.18 ORIGINAL SURFACES P.58 BASIC BEGINNING WOODTURNING P.58 CARRIE IVERSON ROBERT EBENDORF WENDY OSTERWEIL DERICK TICKLE IMAGE TRANSFERS FOR KILN GLASS P.54 LOST & FOUND: PERSONAL ADORNMENT P.48 PATTERN IN PROCESS: FROM SILKSCREEN CALLIGRAPHY TECHNIQUES & APPLICATION P.26 PRINTED FABRIC TO WEARABLE ART P.38 BEN VENOM GEOFFREY GORMAN DON’T BE SQUARE P.43 FINDING THE SOULS OF FORGOTTEN MATERIALS JANA PULLMAN P.9 MAKING BOOKS AND BOXES P.28
BETH IRELAND & KEUNHO PETER PARK MAKING SCULPTURAL STRINGED INSTRUMENTS P.9 7 7 “When I first learned of Arrowmont, some 20 years ago, it meant little more to me than simply being an arts and crafts school where I might someday take a woodturning class. But with a little time, I learned it was a lot more. In fact, it was and is a place for life changing experiences.” — STEVEN E. GOTTLIEB, BOARD PRESIDENT 9 9
SPECIAL TOPICS
At Arrowmont, we always try our best to classify our workshops by media. But sometimes, the creativity of making eludes easy classification. Browse this section to find those experiences that will expand your own creativity and the limits of your disciplinary knowledge. From broom and doll making, to working with concrete, found materials, and leather, we encourage you to break the mold (except, of course, in your moldmaking workshop). SPECIAL TOPICS
APRIL 11 – 14 · WEEKEND APRIL 11 – 14 · WEEKEND JUNE 2 – 8 · ONE WEEK
REAGAN BITLER MARK HENDRY ZEKE LEONARD FROM THE GARDEN TO THE GALLERY: THE ART OF BROOM MAKING MUSICAL INSTRUMENT CREATING FUNCTIONAL ART MAKING: UKELELES FROM GOURDS The focus of this workshop is learning the traditional Appalachian art of making brooms In this workshop students will use salvaged In this workshop students design functional from the ground up. Students will prep wood to learn a step-by-step process to scratch- art from dried gourds. Dried gourds have broomcorn, learn to harvest and finish handles, build a soprano, tenor or baritone ukulele. You a wood-like consistency, creating a unique and construct a variety of broom styles will bend the sides, carve the neck and learn medium. The class introduces the tools used including whisks, sweepers and besoms, each the basics of setting up and playing ukulele. in preparing and designing a lidded gourd as functional as they are fanciful. Participants Participants will create at least one playable bowl and vase. Demonstrations of coloring will explore the art of broom design and leave instrument and even learn a few chords. No treatments and application of embellishments class with all the know-how to make brooms woodworking skills are necessary, however allows students to elevate their pieces to on their own. Open to all skill levels, however advanced woodworkers will discover new functional art. By creating art from gourds, moderate hand and upper body strength are applications. COURSE FEE: $675 participants with an interest in cutting, needed. COURSE FEE: $450 carving, burning, and experimenting with Zeke Leonard is a woodworker, musician and color and shape will gain or enhance their Mark Hendry is a full-time artisan specializing teacher who lives in Syracuse, New York. He has ability to design unique one-of-a-kind art in historic handcraft with a focus on using an MFA in Furniture Design from the Rhode pieces. Open to all skill levels. natural materials. He has over 30 years Island School of Design. Leonard’s recent studio COURSE FEE: $400 experience as a professional teacher of fine and practice has revolved around making standard performing arts in private, public and magnet and experimental stringed instruments out of Reagan Bitler is a gourd artist and teacher from schools. Hendry travels the country teaching discarded pianos. ZEKELEONARD.COM Hanover, Pennsylvania. He is president of the all levels and ages. He teaches regularly for the Pennsylvania Gourd Society and a member of John C. Campbell Folk School, is a member the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen. Bitler of the Southern Highland Craft Guild, and is instructs workshops at gourd festivals and the director and resident artist for Mountain taught gourds as an art medium for the Augusta Heritage Handcraft, located in Blue Ridge, Heritage Center of Davis and Elkins College Georgia. MHCRAFTED.COM 2018 Arts, Crafts and Folklore Workshops. GODAHAVOMGOURDS.COM 11
JUNE 30 – JULY 13 · TWO WEEKS JUNE 30 – JULY 13 · TWO WEEKS
MASTER WOODTURNING WORKSHOPS
Arrowmont is launching a new Master Class series of woodturning workshops this year. We have scheduled a group of the world’s best turners and instructors who will be teaching a series of in-depth and creatively challenging workshops geared to GEOFFREY GORMAN BETH IRELAND AND KEUNHO PETER PARK the experienced turner. Come and FINDING THE SOULS OF MAKING SCULPTURAL STRINGED INSTRUMENTS learn with these Masters during FORGOTTEN MATERIALS an intensive week of instruction, During this workshop students learn sculptural carving, shaping and forming to create their own exploration, and lively discussion to In this workshop students use found objects personalized instrument designs based on a special bandsaw box technique. The fundamentals of take your woodturning skills to the such as wood, tin, rust, foam and rubber to stringed instrument construction including scale length, acoustics, fretting and stringing are also master level! complete a variety of forms. Demonstrations covered. Participants will be guided through the safe use of tools including the bandsaw, router, will provide techniques to overcome drill press and stationary sanders to create two unique stringed instruments: a dulcimer guitar, NICK AGAR P.59 construction challenges and how to work with and a tenor or six-string guitar. There will be lots of one-on-one instruction. Whether you are a assemblages. The workshop is for beginners musician who wants to learn woodworking techniques, or a woodworker who would like to learn DAVID ELLSWORTH P.59 curious about how to construct creatures to the elements of stringed instrument construction this is the class for you. Open to all skill levels. the advanced artists who wants to challenge COURSE FEE: $1155 JACQUES VESERY P.61 themselves to the next level. However, each student must be familiar with using hand and Beth Ireland lives in Saint Petersburg, Florida Keunho Peter Park is an international artist, J PAUL FENNELL P.62 power tools like drills, band saws and sanders. and earned her BA from the State University woodworker, and instrument maker who teaches COURSE FEE: $1050 College at Buffalo and an MFA in sculpture from at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. AL STIRT P.64 Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She has He holds a BFA in painting from South Geoffrey Gorman is a practicing artist, creating been operating Beth Ireland Woodworking since Korea’s Kookmin University and an MFA in his original found material sculptures in 1983, providing a specialization in architectural Woodworking and Furniture Design from Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has been leading and artistic woodturning. Since 2010, Ireland the Rochester Institute of Technology. Park workshops, hosting panel discussions, and giving has been involved in a traveling art/craft project won a 2015 Wharton Esherick award at the presentations for artists and arts groups for titled Turning Around America, and since 2016 Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show and more than twenty-five years. Gorman shows his on an instrument-making project (strumfactory. served as a Windgate resident artist at Indiana work in the U.S. and has exhibited in China com). She also teaches the Professional University of Pennsylvania. STUDIOSPONG.COM and South Korea. Over the last several years his Woodturning Intensive course at The Center for unique sculptures have been written about in the Furniture Craftsmanship. BETHIRELAND.NET New York Post, Southwest Art, American Craft, American Style and Cloth, Paper, Scissors. GEOFFREYGORMAN.COM SPECIAL TOPICS
JULY 21 – 27 · ONE WEEK JULY 21 – 27 · ONE WEEK AUGUST 4 – 10 · ONE WEEK
MOLLY GRANT JANE WELLS HARRISON AND JERRY JACKSON JAKE WEIGEL SEWING LEATHER HANDBAGS MATERIALLY RECONSIDERED SCULPTURAL CONCRETE CASTING
In this workshop students learn the basics This mixed media workshop allows students to expand their artistic expression by experimenting During this workshop students explore of pattern making along with creative ways with unconventional materials and techniques. Along with collage and paint, you will investigate techniques using wood forms and rubber to make knots and straps. Discovering the non-traditional materials such as wax and sheetrock mud. Additional materials include soft moldmaking material to create cast concrete beginning steps of sewing on a portable ground stains, dry natural pigments, and oil pigment sticks to enhance your designs. Processes sculptures. You will learn about premade industrial sewing machine, participants can included are additive and subtractive methods that enable the artist to create rich layered concrete and discover variations of concrete make up to three bags including a small imagery. Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 mixtures for practical and aesthetic purposes. zippered bag, a “Molly” bag and a one-of-a- Participants will also learn about constructing kind bag of their own design. Open to all Jane Wells Harrison holds an MFA in painting Jerry Jackson is a graduate of East Carolina basic armatures and the inclusion of other skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 and drawing from East Carolina University. University and holds degrees in ceramics and material for multimedia sculptures. Also Harrison is the former director of Visual Arts at painting. Jackson is the executive director included in class are techniques for finishing Molly Grant is a self-taught leather worker Caldwell Community College and has taught at John C. Campbell Folk School and past and presentation. Open to all skill levels. practicing the craft since the early 1980s at Shakerag Workshops, Pocosin Arts, Penland deputy director at Penland School of Crafts. COURSE FEE: $600 designing leather handbags, clothing and School of Crafts, and East Carolina University. Exhibitions include galleries and universities in shoes using traditional and contemporary Prior residencies include Vermont Studio Center the Southeastern U.S., Estonia and Germany. Jake Weigel is assistant professor of Art and leather working skills. In addition to creating and multiple Penland Winter Residencies. Her His current work includes explorations in Sculpture at California State University- custom leather goods, she teaches handbag and work can be found in the Gregg Museum of Art nontraditional painting materials as Stanislaus. He is a multidisciplinary artist with a shoemaking classes at her New Hampshire and Design and Racine Art Museum. a foundation for aggressive mark making focus in object making and installation methods. workshop and at craft schools around the JANEWELLSHARRISON.COM and pattern. By combining traditional mediums and processes country. CORDWAINERSHOP.COM with new technology, Weigel continually expands his practice through contemporary dialogues. He has exhibited widely throughout the U.S. and is an independent writer for multiple arts publications. JAKEWEIGEL.NET 13
OCTOBER 13 – 19 · ONE WEEK NOVEMBER 3 – 9 · ONE WEEK NOVEMBER 3 – 9 · ONE WEEK
MOLLY GRANT NICOLE HAVEKOST SHERRI WARNER HUNTER THE ART OF SHOEMAKING THE DOLL AS STORYTELLER THE ART OF CONCRETE
This workshop begins with an introduction A doll is often a stand-in for a character in Students will create their own concrete to the history of the Cordwainer Shop a play or story where they take on magical, sculpture using carved polystyrene and non- founded in 1925. Using original tin patterns spiritual and ritual values. This workshop welded metal elements to build an armature. from the 1920s, students learn about basic explores the doll as a sculptural form and As your sculpture takes form, you will pattern making. From start-to-finish, the as a vehicle for storytelling. Students will discover a variety of concrete mix designs process is 100% hands-on shoe work. develop a character and narrative through and sculpting techniques. Participants will Participants can choose from an array of writing and sketching exercises that they will explore the use of color as an integral mix leathers and their shoes will be made to exact transform into a finished doll. You will use component, and experiment with washes of foot measurements. You will discover how additive and subtractive sculpture techniques stains and other surface treatments, adding to cut the leather, lace the uppers, and hand including air drying clay to create the body, to the versatility concrete has for creative lace the soles to the uppers. The final product exploring limb attachment techniques for expression. Students will produce at least one will leave students feeling amazed and proud gestural effects, and finishing the doll’s well-developed sculpture in addition to test of their unique footwear. Open to all skill surface using mixed media processes pieces from exploring techniques in casting, levels, however some hand strength is needed including painting, drawing and collage. carving, modeling and coloring concrete. since the entire shoe is laced by hand. Class presentations include the traditions You will have the opportunity to refine the COURSE FEE: $600 of doll-making in art and their use by skills best suited for your personal style. contemporary artists. Open to all skill levels. Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 Molly Grant is a self-taught leather worker COURSE FEE: $600 practicing the craft since the early 1980s Sherri Warner Hunter lives and works in designing leather handbags, clothing and shoes Nicole HaveKost is an artist living in Bell Buckle, TN. She received her BFA from using traditional and contemporary leather Minnesota who has made small, figurative the Kansas City Art Institute and an MA working skills. In addition to creating custom work for 25 years. She has taught at liberal from Claremont Universities in Sculpture leather goods, she teaches shoemaking classes arts and community colleges in Michigan and Drawing. Hunter creates large-scale at her New Hampshire workshop and at craft and Minnesota. HaveKost is a two-time installations in her studio, SWH Art Studio schools around the country. Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Inc., and at the Lucile Packard Children’s CORDWAINERSHOP.COM grant recipient and has exhibited most recently Hospital, Stanford University. She teaches in Mill Valley, California and Tasmania, workshops throughout the U.S. and abroad Australia. NIKIMADE.COM and has authored two books on concrete. SWHARTSTUDIOINC.COM “This experience has been one of the most meaningful experiences that I have had within my artistic career so far. I have not only learned a tremendous amount of knowledge that I can apply into my artistic practice, but I gained a greater confidence in myself. I grew in ways that I think that I could only have done at Arrowmont; the environment is truly special.” — JESSE MCGLANAHAN, WORK-STUDY 15
CLAY
In November of 2018, we were thrilled to host our third Figurative Association Symposium on Arrowmont’s campus. That event brought together artists from across all disciplines who had one thing in common: they all worked with the human and/or animal form. The symposium began in 2010, when the event was strictly figurative ceramic artists. In celebration of those who work with the human form, we have gathered some of the best figurative ceramicists to teach workshops in 2019. From Richard W. James to Andréa Keys Connell, we hope you find a course that inspires you. CLAY
APRIL 11 – 14 · WEEKEND JUNE 2 – 8 · ONE WEEK JUNE 2 – 8 · ONE WEEK JUNE 9 – 15 · ONE WEEK
BRIAN NETTLES BRIAN HARPER MATT LONG ANDRÉA KEYS CONNELL POTS ON AND OFF THE WHEEL DISTILLING THE COMPLEX FORM: PORCELAIN CUPS AND SODA FIRING BUILDING BIG...WITH A SMALL KILN BUILDING WITH ESSENTIAL BLOCKS During this workshop students learn the This workshop looks at the variations of cups During this workshop students will work in essential aspects of making pottery: ideas, This workshop explores methods of building that are integral to our lives and that we use collaboration with each other and problem- centering, throwing, trimming, altering wet modular clay sculptures utilizing incremental to quench our thirst, make toasts, and that solve on multiple large-scale ceramic forms on the wheel, handles, decorating and multiple forms. During class the techniques simply generate conversation. The purpose is sculptures. Demonstrations focus on hollow glazing. The instructor will demonstrate covered are individualized and include using to discover the function, technique, comfort, building techniques needed for pieces from one pots made on and off the wheel. This class is a range of studio tools to create components aesthetics and self-expression of cups through to nine feet tall. Participants will learn various for beginners who want to test the waters of for the sculptures, including post-firing lecture and demonstration in this hands-on solutions for cutting, firing and assembling pottery making, or the more advanced student assembly. Individual and group discussions workshop. You will create line and gesture their work post-firing. Epoxies, paints and wanting to explore fresh ideas of making pots and additional course material, including in surfaces in a myriad of ways that include various cold surface techniques are covered, and glazing techniques. Open to all skill levels. Skype-based artist studio visits, will enhance the use of thick slip and finish firework in including glazing. You will learn how to COURSE FEE: $400 the learning environment. Open to all skill the soda kiln. All students should have some execute big ideas, no matter the size of your levels. COURSE FEE: $600 experience with clay and be able to throw kiln. Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 Brian Nettles is a studio potter living in Pass pots. Intermediate throwing ability required. Christian, Mississippi who operates Nettles Brian Harper is an artist, professor, and founder COURSE FEE: $600 Andréa Keys Connell is an associate professor of Pottery where he makes pots, operates a teaching and executive director of Artaxis, a non-profit art Ceramics at Appalachian State University and studio and has a showroom. He received his BFA organization featuring over 600 international Matt Long is an associate professor of Art and received her MFA in 2009. Her work has been in Ceramics and Sculpture from the University ceramic artists. Harper has 12 years of teaching the graduate coordinator for the Department of featured in several national and international of Southern Mississippi and has studied wood experience at the university level and is an Art at The University of Mississippi. He received publications. She has had numerous solo firing on multiple trips to Japan. Nettles has associate professor and Head of the Ceramics his MFA in Ceramics from Ohio University and exhibitions in galleries and museums across taught and lectured at universities, art schools, program at Indiana University Southeast in his BFA in Ceramics from the Kansas City Art the country including The Florida Holocaust clay centers and at NCECA, and has built over New Albany, Indiana. He holds a BFA from Institute. Long was also a teaching lab specialist, Museum and The Kentucky Museum of Art and 50 kilns. His work is in private collections and Northern Arizona University and an MFA adjunct faculty member and visiting assistant Craft. Connell has taught workshops on figure public museum collections in America, Japan, from the University of Iowa. His work has been professor at The University of Florida sculpting at craft schools including Haystack and and Europe. NETTLESPOTTERY.COM exhibited in over 100 national and international in Gainesville. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York exhibitions, including eight solo exhibitions. City. ANDREAKEYS.COM BRIANHARPERSTUDIO.COM 17
JUNE 9 – 15 · ONE WEEK JUNE 16 – 22 · ONE WEEK JUNE 23 – 29 · ONE WEEK
MARK ERROL MISTY GAMBLE LIZ ZLOT SUMMERFIELD CLAY POTS AND COLOR SPOTS HOLLOW BUILD THE FOLD AND FABRICATE: SELF-REFERENTIAL BUST HANDBUILDING WITH SOFT SLABS In this workshop students create forms on the wheel and through hand-building to During this workshop students learn how This workshop demystifies working with soft activate surfaces by a variety of techniques. to hollow build a self-referential bust using slabs and offers the essential components to Students will learn about inlay, paper an interwoven combination of slab, coil and creating unique slab-built pots. Students are transfers, paper masking, slip and underglaze pinch. Participants interested in figuration, introduced to the techniques of working with layering and gain knowledge on how they technique and surface mark making earthenware clay slabs and paper patterns. join forces to bring high impact with low- will enhance their ability to understand Class begins with simple functional forms tech methods. What you experience during proportion as it relates to the figure. You and expands to include components such as class will add complexity to your work should come to class with source material lids, feet and spouts. Discussions and work with easy-to-learn and highly affordable about yourself. Think about how you reveal time are allotted to surface treatment using techniques. Open to all skill levels. yourself to others. Can it be as subtle as an terra sigillata and underglazes, and the class COURSE FEE: $600 expressive pose or gesture or does it take focuses on bisque firing only. One-on-one symbol, icon or surrogate? An inexpensive interaction is encouraged in a supportive, Mark Errol is a co-owner of Plough Gallery in process is set in place to pack and ship your positive environment with experimentation Tifton, Georgia and is a lecturer at Valdosta busts after a bisque fire. Open to all skill and individual development nurtured. All State University in Ceramics, 3D Design levels. COURSE FEE: $600 clay enthusiasts from beginner to advanced and Professional Preparation for graduating are welcome. COURSE FEE: $600 Art majors. When not teaching, running the Misty Gamble lives in Indiana and is an gallery, or making his own work, he enjoys Artist-In-Residence at the New Harmony Liz Zlot Summerfield works as a studio artist gardening, shoe shopping and eating ice cream. Clay Project and is co-founder of Studio and adjunct instructor in Bakersville, North MARKSMUD.COM Nong: International Sculpture Collective and Carolina. She received her MFA from the Residency Program. She was a former assistant University of Minnesota. Summerfield has professor at the Kansas City Art Institute been featured in Ceramics Monthly and Clay and has taught throughout Italy. Studio Times, and in 2014 Ceramics Arts Daily Nong travels the U.S., China and Europe to released an instructional DVD featuring complete residencies that focus on clay figurative her ceramic process and work. In 2018, she sculpture. MISTYGAMBLE.COM co-created the Red-Handed Symposium, a conference solely devoted to low-fire earthenware enthusiasts. LZSPOTTERY.COM CLAY
JUNE 30 – JULY 13 · TWO WEEKS JUNE 30 – JULY 13 · TWO WEEKS JULY 21 – 27 · ONE WEEK
JOSH COPUS RICHARD W. JAMES RONAN PETERSON AND TERESA PIETSCH WOOD FIRE WORKS THE CERAMIC FIGURE DISSECTED STRATA: UTILIZING SLIPS
This workshop focuses on making work to The focus of this workshop is to dissect the This workshop focuses on using slips, terra sigillatas and glazes to create dynamic, colorful load and fire in Arrowmont’s new train kiln. figure into components including the head, and varied surfaces for ceramic vessels. Relying primarily on abstract images and patterns, Through demonstrations, discussion, and hands, feet and torso, rather than taking a students will create vast worlds of information and narrative within a frame of functional activities students learn how to successfully holistic view. Through demonstrations and vessels. Wheel throwers and hand builders alike will gain knowledge and approaches to dynamic integrate their ideas from the studio into the discussions students will gain an anatomical ceramic surfaces. Class demonstrations include how to create dynamic, textured, and patterned firing. You will learn about the use of wild understanding of each body part. You will backgrounds for further enhancement with glazes, and reverse painting colored slips onto clays and place-based making philosophies as leave class with knowledge of all the correct newsprint to create lively and colorful images and backgrounds to be printed onto leather hard ways to create unique work. Participants are proportions and elements of the human figure, vessels. Post-bisque demonstrations include minimal glazing and how to use various washes introduced to a variety of packing materials ready to be assembled for a sculpture of your as surface treatments for firing in an electric/oxidation kiln. Both instructors will use red and creative loading strategies to create own or to keep as a reference for a future one. earthenware clay and fire in an electric kiln in the cone 1-2 range. Experience with clay, being interesting unglazed surfaces with an emphasis Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $1050 able to center and throw at least two-plus pounds of clay, and ability to hand build vessel forms on unifying material, form and surface. Post are required. COURSE FEE: $600 firing cold working and polishing are also Richard W. James is a long-term resident at the covered. Open to all skill levels. Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana. Ronan Peterson lives in Chapel Hill, North Teresa Pietsch lives in Penland, North Carolina COURSE FEE: $1050 He earned his MFA from the University of Carolina and maintains Nine Toes Pottery, and operates Teresa Pietsch Pottery. She was a Kansas, where his thesis work received the 2016 producing highly decorated functional resident at the EnergyXchange and is a member Josh Copus makes woodfired ceramics and Sculpture Magazine Outstanding Student earthenware pottery. He was a Core Fellow of Mica Gallery and part of the Spruce Pine is based in Marshall, North Carolina. He is Achievement Award in Contemporary Sculpture. at Penland School of Crafts in 2000–2001. Potters Market. Her work has been featured the founder of the Clayspace Co-op and the He has been a summer resident at Zhenrutang Peterson has taught workshops at Penland School in numerous galleries and national exhibits at Community Brick Project. Copus is a graduate Ceramics in Jingdezhen, China and an Artist- of Crafts, Mudflat Studio, The Kiln Studio and Cedar Creek Gallery, Lark and Key Gallery, and of the University of North Carolina at Asheville In-Residence at Arrowmont. James writes for Sierra Nevada College and his work has been Charlie Cummings Gallery in Florida. and is a Windgate Fellow. He has been a publications including Ceramics Monthly, featured in numerous national exhibitions. TERESAPIETSCH.COM presenter at numerous international woodfiring Ceramics: Art and Perception, and Ceramics: NINETOESPOTTERY.COM conferences and residency programs. Technical. RICHARDWJAMES.COM JOSHCOPUS.COM 19
JULY 21 – 27 · ONE WEEK JULY 28 – AUGUST 3 · ONE WEEK JULY 28 – AUGUST 3 · ONE WEEK AUGUST 4 – 10 · ONE WEEK
BOBBY SCROGGINS JON MCMILLAN AUSTIN RIDDLE STEVEN CHEEK HOLLOW CORE CONSTRUCTION: BUILDING CONTENT THROUGH VIVIDLY SUBTLE: PASTEL CARVING COMMENTARY A UNIQUE FIGURATIVE FORM AND SURFACE FLASHING IN SODA SCULPTURAL APPROACH In this workshop students focus on conceptual In this workshop students discover various In this workshop students are introduced to solutions for their work in ceramics by During this workshop students explore methods of constructing divergent forms the variety of colors and textures available rendering their ideas from concept to reality. ceramic figurative sculpture. You will learn and integrating them into unified sculptures. within a soda kiln. Through demonstrations Participants interested in activating the surface the basic principles of design, maquette You will learn techniques for pinch, coil and hands-on participation, you will learn of their pots will explore carving in porcelain making, armature building, figure modelling, and slab building and investigate the techniques for designing and making work and other low relief decoration techniques deconstruction and reconstruction. formulation of textural glazes and the use with a soda fired surface in mind. Participants such as sgraffito and inlay. You may also Participants should bring sketches, drawings of alternative surfaces. Discussions focus on will create and encourage visual layers on their use celadons and other translucent surface and/or maquettes to complete during class. how contemporary ceramic artists combine work by utilizing glaze and slip application treatments. Students will have the opportunity The most appropriate idea for each student technical and conceptual elements in their and loading and firing strategies. Discussion to explore both high fire and cone 6 celadons. will be selected to safely design, construct work, how ideas that inform your work topics include the challenges of designing You should come prepared with ideas and and fire flawless pieces in a short completion influence technical decisions in the studio, utilitarian pottery and building a personal concepts that you want to tackle. Open to time. This is an ideal approach for art teachers and if the integration of process and concept sensibility of form and function. You should all skill levels, however some experience in and figurative sculpture students who want to produces artwork that is richer in aesthetic and bring cone 10 bisqueware to class and you will throwing is ideal. COURSE FEE: $600 eliminate firing losses. Open to beginning to intellectual content. Open to all skill levels. also create work to be fired in the soda kiln. intermediate skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 Steven Cheek lives in Louisville, Kentucky and COURSE FEE: $600 is an Artist-in-Residence at the Mary Anderson Jon McMillan is an associate professor and Chair Austin Riddle is a studio potter and educator Center and co-founder of the Southern Crossings Bobby Scroggins is a practicing artist and has of the Department of Art and Art History at who lives in Roswell, Georgia. He received his Pottery Festival. He received his BFA from the served as professor of Ceramics and Sculpture at the University of Mary Washington (UMW) BFA in ceramics at the University of Utah and University of Evansville and an MFA from The University of Kentucky since 1990. He has in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He holds an MFA has been an Artist-In-Residence at Arrowmont, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Cheek has been chairman of Visual Arts for The Kentucky from Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, The Bright Angle in Asheville, North Carolina, taught ceramics at the University of Louisville, Governor’s School for the Arts. Scroggins’ works and has taught ceramics workshops throughout and is a resident at Art Center West in Roswell, Georgia State University, and the University have been in major exhibitions and collections the country. His sculptural and functional Georgia. AUSTINRIDDLEPOTTERY.COM of Tennessee, Chattanooga and was an Artist- throughout the U.S. and abroad. He has received artwork are exhibited widely, with recent solo in-Residence at Odyssey Center for the Ceramic several awards and commissions and has held exhibitions in France, Virginia and Tennessee. Arts. STEVENGCHEEK.COM visiting artist residencies in Europe and China. In 2017, McMillan was awarded the Grellet BOBBYSCROGGINS.COM Simpson Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching at UMW. JONMCMILLAN.COM CLAY
AUGUST 4 – 10 · ONE WEEK AUGUST 11 – 17 · ONE WEEK AUGUST 11 – 17 · ONE WEEK SEPTEMBER 29 – OCTOBER 5 · ONE WEEK
SETH GREEN SUNSHINE COBB HEESOO LEE MELISA CADELL WOOD FIRING AND HAND BUILDING: TECHNIQUES, DIMENSIONAL EXPRESSION FIGURE/MOLD/MULTIPLES REDUCTION COOLING TIPS AND TRICKS ON CERAMIC SURFACES During this workshop students will make During this workshop students learn and This hands-on workshop is designed to In this workshop students explore hand reusable plaster molds from original oil based expand their knowledge of the wood firing motivate students to experiment with old building, sgraffito, texture and watercolor-style figurative studies. Multiple blanks can be process, with special emphasis on reduction and new forms and methods of construction. underglaze to create personalized expressions cast in the mold and utilized to create unique cooling using the new train kiln. Participants Geared toward creative expansion, participants of nature and memory on functional and figurative sculpture which can be posed and should bring bisque-fired pottery to slip, glaze, discover building surface through the making sculptural porcelain vessels. Participants will sculpted in multiple positions. The focus is on wad and load into the kiln. You will fire, cool process. Discussions include glaze and surface encounter two distinctive areas of ceramics. building a well-proportioned, anatomically and unload the kiln. Topics discussed range treatments; how abstract concepts make First, you will learn about the creation of a correct figure based on muscle structure. from wood sources and clay bodies to cleaning their way into your work and the tradition of clay canvas through an additive process on Participants will also learn time saving tips to pots and the challenges of wood firing. historic ceramics. In this class a process-over- hand-built and wheel-thrown bases using help with creating their sculptures. Open to all Making techniques are also demonstrated. product mentality will inspire beginners to fresh porcelain clay. Second, students will use skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 No prior wood firing experience is necessary. advanced students. Open to all skill levels. a commercial watercolor-style underglaze to Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 COURSE FEE: $600 create perspective and depth on bisque-fired Melisa Cadell works as a sculptor and artist in surfaces and imitate traditional China paint western North Carolina. She has taught the Seth Green is an assistant professor of Ceramics Sunshine Cobb is a potter who received a BA effects. Projects are tailored to your interests figure at Appalachian State University, East at Purdue University, Fort Wayne, Indiana in Studio Art from California State University with a special emphasis on landscapes and Tennessee State University, and in workshops and has been a resident at the Archie Bray at Sacramento and an MFA in Ceramics from perspective. Basic handbuilding and/or across the Eastern U.S. Cadell hopes that her Foundation. He received his MFA from the Utah State University. In 2015, she launched wheelthrowing skills are necessary. work reads like a well-developed novel, giving the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Green exhibits Sidecar Studios for ceramic artists and other COURSE FEE: $600 viewer layers of information about a character to his work nationally and internationally and has creative community activities. In 2013, Cobb discern what might be revealed. been a demonstrator, visiting artist and workshop was named as an emerging artist by both Heesoo Lee is a studio potter based in Helena, MELISACADELL.COM presenter at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, the Ceramics Monthly and National Council on Montana. Born and raised in Seoul, South Clay Studio of Missoula, Michigan and at Education for the Ceramic Arts. Korea, Heesoo earned her BA in Art from Ewha universities around the country. SUNSHINECOBB.COM University. She was a summer resident at the SETHGREENPOTTERY.COM Archie Bray Foundation in 2013 and a long- term resident from 2014 to 2016. Lee shows and sells her work throughout the U.S. and abroad. 21
SEPTEMBER 29 – OCTOBER 5 · ONE WEEK OCTOBER 6 – 12 · ONE WEEK OCTOBER 6 – 12 · ONE WEEK OCTOBER 13 – 19 · ONE WEEK
TED GREEN JASON HESS KARI RADASCH ADRIENNE ELIADES THROWING BOOTCAMP FIRING THE TRAIN KILN SIFT, SORT AND SELECT ABSTRACTORY
In this workshop students learn basic and This workshop focuses on how to fire a wood During this workshop students make pots In this workshop students delve into creative advanced skills for throwing, altering, kiln. Students should bring cone 10 porcelain using the surface pottery forms of earthenware exploration through the world of abstract trimming and finishing cups, bowls, plates or stoneware bisque pottery to class and be clay, terra sigillata and commercial underglaze. pattern. Using various types of paper resist, and large cylinders. You will also develop prepared to learn how to slip, glaze, wad, load Participants will explore forms, imagery and you will learn surface decoration techniques good muscle memory for throwing one to and fire a Train Kiln. Discussions include clay surfaces that resonate. Techniques employed applied to fresh porcelain forms with slip and ten pounds of clay. Class discussions include bodies, kiln design, wood chemistry, the end include bisque molds, coiling, pinching, slab underglaze. Participants will expand their studio practices, safety, and equipment and phase, and the shutting down of a wood firing. construction and light throwing. Each student ability to create expressive, impactful images processes based on clay bodies, glazes, firing As the kiln cools, demonstrations focus on is encouraged to uncover a unique, personal on their clay work using a personal visual schedules and surfaces. Participants should how to make work for different areas within vision. You will leave class with new pots and vocabulary based on drawings, patterns, found bring to class cone 5-6 bisqueware to include the kiln. No prior wood firing experience is new ways of approaching your work and ideas. imagery and more. Color, composition and one cup and three bowls (not to exceed two necessary. Open to all skill levels. This is not an introductory class to throwing. form will be used to generate die cut stencils pounds each) for introduction to spraying COURSE FEE: $600 Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 using a Klic-N-Kut Zing Air Die Cutter. This glazes. You will have cone 6-7 bisqueware and course is designed to create opportunities for four finished glazed pieces at the end of the Jason Hess teaches Ceramics at Northern Arizona Kari Radasch lives and pots in Portland, Maine surface research and design development in session. This is a fast-paced and information- University in Flagstaff, Arizona. He received a and is a mosaic artist, tile maker and educator. your studio practices. Open to all skill levels. heavy course. Open to all skill levels. BA from Beloit College and an MFA from Utah She received her BFA from the Maine College Handbuilders and wheelthrowers are welcome. COURSE FEE: $600 State University. Hess is an avid wood fire potter of Art and an MFA from the University of COURSE FEE: $600 and has exhibited and lectured nationally Nebraska–Lincoln. Using earthenware clay, color Ted Green is a full-time studio potter, teacher and internationally. as a metaphor for joy, an occasional historical Adrienne Eliades lives in Vancouver, and owner of Goose Creek Pottery in New reference, and an ironic nod to kitsch, Radasch Washington. She received her BA in Studio Hope, Pennsylvania. He holds a BA from the makes both celebratory and jubilant work. She Art from the University of North Carolina at University of Indianapolis and studied pottery teaches workshops across the country and loves to Wilmington and an MFA in Ceramics from in Kinsale, Ireland. Green has taken many share her excitement for clay with her students. the University of Florida. Eliades has been workshops at various craft schools. He has been KARIRADASCH.COM an Artist-in-Residence at San Diego State a mud monger for more than 20 years. University, Ash Street Project, Guldagergaard GOOSECREEKPOTTERY.COM International Ceramic Research Center, and The Bright Angle in Asheville, NC. She explores the aesthetics of design and social dining practice. ADRIENNEELIADES.COM CLAY
OCTOBER 20 – 26 · ONE WEEK OCTOBER 20 – 26 · ONE WEEK OCTOBER 27 – NOVEMBER 2 · ONE WEEK
STUART GAIR JEREMY RANDALL TOM BARTEL SODA FIRING FLAT TO FORM: HANDBUILT POTTERY GHOULISH CLAY
In this workshop students learn how to load During this workshop students make vessels While enjoying peak autumn foliage, and fire in Arrowmont’s newly built soda by exploring slab construction, producing students in this workshop learn about coil/ kiln. Participants should arrive with bisqued forms that are out of the round, and learning slab and press-molded approaches to sculpting pots. Discussions include techniques to glaze, new ways to incorporate volume, texture, the human head. Since the class is during wad and position each piece in the kiln in color, surface development, electric firing, and Halloween, participants can consider “all anticipation of the flame’s affect. During class, post firing construction. Using a template things creepy” for their creation. Various students will focus on thrown and altered method of generating ideas and drawing methods of producing ceramic surfaces are pieces with an emphasis on creating forms that form, participants will take flat shapes and demonstrated including slip application, will capture the path of the flame in specific transform them into volumetric objects using stencils, stamps and multi-firing. You should ways. Open to all skill levels. terra sigillata to create enlivened surfaces. You bring to class a collection of your interests COURSE FEE: $600 will also develop an approach to decoration in a sketchbook/scrapbook or laptop images. that looks at line, texture and form to Participants may take their finished green-ware Stuart Gair is a resident artist at the Archie make decisions that build upon your visual home, or have it fired post workshop. Students Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana and is vocabulary. The vessels students create will be should have a good working knowledge of a functional potter who primarily uses the soda full of reference and rich with visual interest. hand building. Costumes are optional. Open kiln. He received a BAS in History from Ohio Some handbuilding experience is beneficial, to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 University and an MFA from the University however all experience levels are welcome. of Nebraska-Lincoln. Gair begins each piece by COURSE FEE: $600 Tom Bartel has been working with clay and throwing on the wheel and then manipulating it sculpting the figure for over 30 years. Holding a once off the wheel. STUARTGAIR.COM Jeremy Randall lives in Tully, New York BFA from Kent State University and an MFA where he operates his studio business, Rusty from Indian University-Bloomington, Bartel is Wheel Pottery and is a visiting professor of the ceramics chairperson and professor at Ohio art at Cazenovia College. He received his University, Athens, Ohio and he maintains BFA from Syracuse University and an MFA Mid-West Coast Studios. TOMBARTEL.NET in Ceramics from the University of Florida. Randall has taught higher education for 10 years and is published in national and international periodicals, texts and publications. JEREMYRANDALLCERAMICS.COM 23
OCTOBER 27 – NOVEMBER 2 · ONE WEEK NOVEMBER 3 – 9 · ONE WEEK NOVEMBER 3 – 9 · ONE WEEK NOVEMBER 14 – 17 · WEEKEND
LINDA CHRISTIANSON MARGARET BOHLS SUZE LINDSAY TRACY GAMBLE MAKING POTTERY POURING POTS: WHEEL-THROWING POURING POTS: HAND-BUILDING GLAZING: ADVENTURES WITH AMACO CONE 5/6 GLAZE LINES This workshop focuses on the skill-building, During this workshop students discover In this workshop students create pots that curiosities and aesthetic development of the strategies for form development focused on pour. You will work on wheel and tabletop This hands-on workshop focuses on the student’s individual interests. Through daily pots that pour. Demonstrations include ways exploring techniques for making pots that application of AMACO’s (American Art Clay demonstrations, discussions, exercises and to create volume, make spouts and handles, can hold and deliver liquid, forming spouts, Company) cone 5/6 glaze lines (potter’s choice, personalized attention, participants will create and design lids that fit. The emphasis is on crafting comfortable handles, and producing celadon, satin matte and shino). Students will well-crafted and thoughtful pottery. Pots that designing and creating interesting and resolved lids that fit. Participants will create interesting fire kilns (bisque fire to cone 04) and discover are dry are bisque-fired during class. With an forms built from multiple parts. Drawing forms built from multiple parts — either made decorating techniques with velvet underglazes atmosphere of fun and hard work, the goal is exercises will also help participants understand on the wheel or hand-built. The class will that include newsprint image transfer and for you to experience personal growth in your form and relationships. This class will work share demonstrations and projects with the Mishima/inlay. Glazes are provided by work. Both wheel throwers and handbuilders closely with the Pouring Pots: Wheel-throwing Pouring Pots: Hand-building workshop taught AMACO. Students should bring bisque fired are welcome. Open to all skill levels. workshop taught by Suze Lindsay. Students by Margaret Bohls. They include drawing and test tiles and small, one pounder, test pot COURSE FEE: $600 will share demos and lectures and learn both writing exercises, sharing images of historical creations (5 to 10 of each) to class along with handbuilding and wheelthrowing methods. and contemporary sources, and discovering a sketch book, glaze brushes and a sense of Linda Christianson is an independent studio This class will use stoneware. Bisque fire new approaches to surface enhancement. adventure. Open to all skill levels. potter who lives in rural Minnesota. She studied only. Intermediate level handbuilding skills Bisque fire only. Open to intermediate level COURSE FEE: $400 at Hamline University in St Paul and the Banff required. COURSE FEE: $600 only. COURSE FEE: $600 Centre School of Fine Arts, Banff, Alberta, Tracy Gamble lives in Plainfield, Indiana and Canada. An itinerate educator, Christianson Margaret Bohls received a BFA from the Rhode Suze Lindsay is a full-time studio potter living works as a studio potter and educator with the has taught at colleges and universities, including Island School of Design and an MFA from and working in Bakersville, North Carolina. American Art Clay Company. Gamble has Carleton College and the Hartford Art School. Louisiana State University. She is an associate She earned her MFA from Louisiana State published articles in Pottery Making Illustrated, She received fellowships from the National professor of Art at the University of Nebraska- University. Her ceramic studies include a Ceramics Monthly, and Arts & Activities. She Endowment for the Arts and the McKnight Lincoln and has taught ceramics at the college two-year fellowship and an Artist-in-Residence also teaches workshops and consults. A recent Foundation. Her recent writing appeared in level for over 20 years. She gives lectures and Program at the Penland School of Crafts. In podcast can be found on “Tales of the Red Clay Studio Potter and The Log Book. workshops at universities and art centers across 1996, Lindsay and her husband set up their Rambler”, Episode 220. CHRISTIANSONPOTTERY.COM the U.S. Bohl’s work is included in several public potting studio in Bakersville. She has lead and private art collections, and articles about her workshops at numerous art centers, clay guilds work have been featured in Ceramics Monthly and universities, and exhibits nationally. and Studio Potter magazine. FORKMOUNTAINPOTTERY.COM MARGARETBOHLS.COM/PORTFOLIO_GRID.SHTML “The magic around Arrowmont is that, it’s a smaller community than a lot of other craft schools. You get to know everyone here and when you come back, it really feels like you are coming home.” — ASHLEY GILREATH, INSTRUCTOR 2525
2-D ARTS: DRAWING, PAINTING, PAPER, BOOKS, PRINTMAKING & PHOTOGRAPHY
There’s nothing flat about the offerings in painting, drawing, printmaking and paper and book arts for 2019. Charles Clary’s papercutting class will take students deep into layers of relief building, while Courtney Cerrutti and Holly Roberts create layers of images through collage and transfer. And, figure painting takes center stage (or podium) as well after our Figurative Association Symposium last fall, with figurative workshops by Cornel Rubino, Dannielle MuŽina, and Eleanor Aldrich. 2-D ARTS
APRIL 11 – 14 · WEEKEND APRIL 11 – 14 · WEEKEND
BECKY DICKOVITCH DERICK TICKLE ENCAUSTIC: SO MUCH CALLIGRAPHY TECHNIQUES MORE THAN WAX AND APPLICATION
If you are interested to learn new tricks in In this workshop students learn the art of painting, mixed media and collage then round hand foundational calligraphy through this introduction to encaustic workshop is demonstration and practice. The emphasis the perfect opportunity for new exploration. is on good writing posture and choosing During class students will learn the basics the right pen nibs and paper. Participants of painting with encaustic and the surface will practice with various types of pens with embellishment techniques of incising, ink and gouache. You will also learn how to collaging, image transfer and incorporating produce good page layout and design and other media into the wax. Participants are how to achieve the correct pen nib angle to encouraged to bring their old sketches, prints, produce constant flow and rhythm. Students or watercolor works to give them new life with should bring to class a chosen poem or favorite the embellishment techniques learned during quotation which will be the subject of a class. Open to all skill levels. finished project. Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $400 COURSE FEE: $400
Becky Dickovitch is an encaustic and fiber artist Derick Tickle is a native of England where he living and working in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. studied calligraphy and illumination at the She received her BFA in painting from Middle Reigate College of Art and Design. He now Tennessee State University and teaches encaustic lives in Asheville, North Carolina and teaches workshops and exhibits her work throughout calligraphy and illumination classes at the Middle Tennessee. John C. Campbell Folk School, the Blue Ridge BECKYDICKOVITCH.CARBONMADE.COM Community College and ABTech. Tickle is a member of the Society of Scribes and Illuminators and has taught calligraphy workshops in England and New Zealand. 27
JUNE 2 – 8 · ONE WEEK JUNE 2 – 8 · ONE WEEK JUNE 9 – 15 · ONE WEEK JUNE 9 – 15 · ONE WEEK
CHARLES CLARY SAMANTHA FIELDS GARY CHAPMAN NAOMI S. VELASQUEZ CUT, CUT AND CUT SOME MORE DISCOVERY THROUGH SKETCHBOOKS: CHARCOAL AND EXPRESSIVE REIMAGINING BOOKS PAINTING WITH GOUACHE MARK MAKING: A PAINTER’S During this workshop students create APPROACH TO DRAWING In this workshop students explore how to whimsical narratives by learning through In this workshop students learn how to paint design and create unique repurposed and exploration of various paper cutting with gouache in their sketchbooks, a personal During this workshop students explore altered books. You will learn the technical techniques. You will explore various modes space to explore ideas, record thoughts and charcoal as the perfect drawing medium for skills involved in altering found objects and of cutting including single layer lace