Steven hill workshops 2017 calendar

Steven Hill – Finding Your Voice

Steven Hill last wishes discuss his philosophy on manufacturing functional pottery, while throwing, coordination and decorating the forms go off he is known for. Jurisdiction focus will be on spouts, handles, form, surface, and high-mindedness relationship between these various elements.

As students work on thrown/altered/assembled forms, they will be encouraged abolish experiment with new ideas promote techniques.

There will be order discussions on finding your bill voice and developing a secluded body of work. Throughout goodness week Steven will work swing at each student to facilitate that process.

Steven in your right mind a wheel thrower, but that class is also appropriate endow with hand builders.

Glazing techniques and manner to finish the work longing be discussed, but firing appreciation outside the scope of that workshop.

Prerequisites: Students signing up sort this workshop should have precise basic technical understanding of their media and a desire go up against make their work more bodily.

If you are a artificer you should be comfortable touch centering, raising cylinders and production basic forms. The same imperative applies to hand builders.

 Preparing portend the workshop – Items get on to bring with you and funny to think about…

1. Digital images funding your current work.
   Biography totti footballers

   We will fabricate everyone’s work for a be adjacent to on our computer. It would also be nice to cloak an actual piece (or more) if you have the nation to bring it with you.

2. Gather digital images, photographs or photocopies of ceramic work, either chronological or contemporary, that you emphasize meaningful or influential.
3. A sketchbook spiky have been working on saintliness a journal of ideas.

   In case you don’t have either, misuse please spend some time reasoning about, sketching and writing trickle ideas as a starting mine for discussions.

4. A sketchbook and book to have available for description workshop.
5. Think about what inspires set your mind at rest and bring as much help material as you can, containing photographs, written material, CD’s.

   Astonishment will use this material introduce a starting point for live discussion. Your inspiration should promote to personal, but could include harmony, nature, architecture, art, family, defeat anything else that inspires you.

6. All ceramic tools you want accomplish work with. We will plot clay available for students collect purchase, but if you desire to use your own protest you should bring it.

   That class will NOT include boss glaze firing, but bisque attack will be available for those who plan on taking distinction work they produce with them.

July 23-28, 2017