Anderson Ranch Arts Center 2015 Summer Workshop Catalog 1 | Page 20

Lorna Meaden, Untitled Lisa Clague, Queen Takashi Nakazato at work August 17 - 28 August 17 - 28 Expanding Your Vocabulary of Functional Forms The Figure: September 7 - 25 metal & clay Lisa Clague Lorna Meaden with guest artist Doug Casebeer SKILL LEVEL: Open to all SKILL LEVEL: II - IV CONCEPT: As makers at any skill level, we often become comfortable with what we are making. The spectrum of useful pots includes an endless variety of functional forms - those for cooking, personal use and the service of food. This workshop expands and refines our vocabulary of forms by making simple pots for daily use, and pots for special occasions. Formal issues such as line, volume and scale are discussed, along with conceptual ideas concerning aesthetics, historical reference and function. MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: Students use soda and woodfired kilns. Demonstrations include throwing, altering, and decorating. Porcelain and white stoneware clays with slips are utilized. Handbuilding spouts and handles with slabs. Slip inlay decoration and glaze application techniques ACTIVITIES: Morning and afternoon demonstrations and lectures, alternating with one-on-one instruction. We focus on making wares, glazing and firing gas-soda and woodsoda kilns. CONCEPT: Lisa Clague describes her sculptural renditions as hybrid creatures, evoking a place between the subconscious and the intangible. In this workshop she employs metal and clay to guide the exploration of the human figure. By incorporating these two materials we create spontaneous and exciting pieces. Lisa shares techniques with fabric, stuffed animals, and metal in casting slip to develop interesting, sculptural forms. We also examine multiple surface treatments, glazes and post-fired finishes. This workshop is designed to open new doors to fascinating possibilities with clay. FACULTY: Lorna Meaden teaches at Fort Lewis College. A featured demonstrator and lecturer at the NCECA and the Utilitarian Clay V: Celebrate the Object conference, she is currently a studio potter in Durango, CO. www.lornameadenpottery.com MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: Students use low-fire white sculpture clay, white casting slip, metal, found objects, plaster bandages, powdered metals and encaustic wax. Techniques include drawing ideas and slab building. ACTIVITIES: We begin each day with a demonstration, followed by another after lunch. The first few days focus on the small torso with discussions about integrating mixed media into the construct of the figure. We venture outside the studio to find wire baskets, old tools, metal wheels and hardware to embellish our work. Focus on Japanese Pottery: intimate harmony “washoku/utsuwa” Takashi Nakazato, Etsuji Noguchi, Noriyuki Furutani, Fumiko Nagai, Yutaka Kawahito, Akari Furutani SKILL LEVEL: II - IV CONCEPT: This workshop is designed for potters to work with professional potters, all of whom have studied with Takashi Nakazato. Focus is on intricate yet daily and casual connections between ceramic wares and the appreciation for food and the tea ceremony of Japan, in response to contemporary adaptations from traditional influences. Through the usage of pottery we examine the kinship between food and the pottery forms it rests upon. MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: Students participate in throwing and handbuilding and use stoneware and porcelain, high-fire slips, terra sigillata, and glazes. Multiple kiln atmospheres will be utilized: wood, soda, reduction and oxidation. ACTIVITIES: Demonstrations three days a week with work time to prepare for the kilns. Students work alongside instructors. All will enjoy a meal presented on the wares made by our master guests. Doug Casebeer, the Associate Director and Artistic Director of Ceramics at the Ranch, has been teaching and organizing workshops for 30 years, and exhibits nationally and internationally. www.harveymeadows.com FACULTY: Lisa Clague is an internationally known sculptor with an M.F.A. from California College of the Arts in Oakland. She is the recipient of the Virginia Groot Award. Her work has been exhibited at the Macon Museum of Art and the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum. Lisa participated in the 3rd World Ceramic Biennale 2005 in Korea. www.lisaclague.net FACULTY: Takashi Nakazato was born into one of Japan’s oldest pottery making families. Takashi’s work typically combines elements of his Japanese heritage with his own innovative style and technique. Etsuji Noguchi lives and works in Tanegashima, Japan. Noriyuki Furutani lives and works in Shigaraki, mainly producing utilitarian wares in Anagama style kilns. Fumiko Nagai graduated from International Christian University in Japan. She uses Japanese style kick wheels for throwing. Yutaka Kawahito is from Hiroshima, Japan. He received his B.A. from San Francisco State University and his M.F.A. from Yale School of Art. Akari Furutani lives and works in Shigaraki. She produces wares that complement food in Anagama style kilns. Tuition: $875 OR Tuition + Studio Support Donation: $1275 Studio Fee: $155  Code: C1214  Enrollment Limit 14 Tuition: $875 OR Tuition + Studio Support Donation: $1275 Studio Fee: $155  Code: C1215  Enrollment Limit 12 Tuition: $1375 OR Tuition + Studio Support Donation: $1975 Studio Fee: $175  Code: C1516  Enrollment Limit 16 18  andersonranch.org  970/923-3181  [email protected]