Workshops, lectures, panel discussions and other opportunities
My workshops are geared to encourage other makers to find influences that inspire their work and help them convey their ideas while teaching the techniques I incorporate and am familiar with. Talking about how any artist comes to making work is important to both the viewer and the artist. Demonstrating the techniques to a community conveys how an object is made. My influences relate to the ceramic processes, history, and connected artists with many more influences found in science fiction, hot rod culture, and specific organic and mechanical motifs. I want to help others find what excites them considering that in making functional or conceptually motivated work; a maker needs to create work that satisfies them and engages the viewer. Otherwise why make anything?
I can bring the majority of my tools used for techniques and can work with any clay body. I need to have an idea of what participants might like to see me perform. Options are as follows.
Building techniques:
Please contact me and will send a fee estimate for your organization.
My workshops are geared to encourage other makers to find influences that inspire their work and help them convey their ideas while teaching the techniques I incorporate and am familiar with. Talking about how any artist comes to making work is important to both the viewer and the artist. Demonstrating the techniques to a community conveys how an object is made. My influences relate to the ceramic processes, history, and connected artists with many more influences found in science fiction, hot rod culture, and specific organic and mechanical motifs. I want to help others find what excites them considering that in making functional or conceptually motivated work; a maker needs to create work that satisfies them and engages the viewer. Otherwise why make anything?
I can bring the majority of my tools used for techniques and can work with any clay body. I need to have an idea of what participants might like to see me perform. Options are as follows.
Building techniques:
- Pinch and slab form construction
- Altering wheel thrown forms
- Improvising with forms created by workshop participants
- Hand rolling and texturizing hollow tubes
- Handle application and altering
- Application of hinged ceramic doors and hatches
- Impression tatooing of textures
- Clay and wood tool and stamp fabrication
- Texturizing slip application (spikes, cracks, drips)
- Terra Sig Application and treatment
- Incorporating plastics and epoxy
- How to keep works hydrated and workable for an extended period using plaster and plastic containers
- A perspective of my work that can include:
- A concise perspective of my work from undergraduate (1992) to present
- A recent perspective of my work and influences including a brief history Yixing Teaware
Please contact me and will send a fee estimate for your organization.