Upcoming:

• Porcelain: Pots and Process. April 17-18. Columbia Art Center. www.columbiaartcenter.com. Contact: Christina.McCleary@ColumbiaAssociation.com; 410-730-0075.

I am most interested in working with people to help them define and explore their own direction.  Workshops, demonstrations and hands-on, are therefore customized to suit the participants.

Topics include:

Glaze Application techniques

Terra Sigillata--making and using

Mold-making (simple one or two-part molds)

Porcelain paper clay: Form and Surface

Soft Slab Construction: Hand building with Porcelain

• forming the slab--discussion and demonstration of various slab making techniques, including wheel thrown, hand rolled and hand flung slabs, homemade paper clay slabs
• decorating the flat surface--mishima, slip trailing, monoprinting, applied texture and images
• from slab to vessel--forms without armatures, slumping/humping, foam/tissue paper armature, single use paper molds

On and Off the Wheel —using both wheel throwing and hand-building techniques to create multi-part forms.

Building Skill at the Wheel--exercises to improve throwing skill at any level.

Workshop/Teaching History:

• Paper Clay: Form and Surface. Manassas Clay, Manassas, VA Nov 21-22. www.manassasclay.com
• Porcelain Paper Clay: Women’s Studio Workshop, NY. July 2009. www.wsworkshop.org

• Soft Slab Construction: Blue Ridge Potter’s Guild, VA May 2009.

• Soft Slab Construction and Paper Play Process: Long Island Craft Guild at Hofstra University, NY October 07.

• Porcelain Paper Clay: Greenbelt Pottery, MD. September 07.

• Guest Artist, Ceramics Road Show, sponsor: American Ceramics Society, Sept 2004, Riverside, CA.

• Porcelain Paper Clay: Riverside Community College, CA Sept 2004

• Porcelain paper Clay Slab Construction with image transfer Lee Arts Center. April 2007

• Soft Slab Construction: Techniques and Forms George Washington University, March 2007; Ceramic Design Associates, Virginia Beach VA, March 2006; Lee Art Center, Arlington, VA Feb 2005; Shenandoah Potters Guild, May 2; Clay Connection Blue Ridge Conference, Front Royal, VA, 1999, 2003, 2005

• Salt Shaker House on HGTV—Crafters From Coast to Coast.: April 26, 2005

• Advanced Throwing Techniques, Creative Clay Studios, Alexandria, VA, 2000

• Glaze Decoration Techniques, Reston Community Center, Reston, VA, 2000

• Terra Sigilatta, Lee Center, Arlington, VA  2002; Manassas Clay, Manassas, VA,  1998

• Intermediate Wheel, Bowman House Community Center, Vienna, VA. Ongoing.

• Advanced Seminars on aesthetics and artistic development, EKClay Studio, 2005

• Intermediate Wheel, Reston Community Center 2000—2003

• Beginning Wheel, Wakefield Recreation Center, 1997; Manassas Clay: 1998

Lectures/Symposia

• Higher Education in Ceramics, East Carolina University, NC. Sept 17-19, 2008.

• NCECA 2007 Emerging Artist Presentation.

• “Material, Methods,Meaning” Clay Connection High School Competition 2006

• Claremont Community College, CA 2004