Hillary Kane
Januari, 22-31, TEXTURES and TEXTILES
Instructors: Hillary Kane
Course Level: All level welcome
Cost: USD $2000 (* includes accommodation, breakfast and lunch, all studio materials, firing, instruction, and excursions around Bali)
Experience exploring surface techniques and form... in a culture renowned for exquisitely refined craftsmanship, Bali could not possibly offer more in the way of visual and tactile stimulation for the creative ceramicist. This workshop endeavors to weave together a set of experiences that will provide enough inspiration for a year, let alone ten days! After visiting a wide range of the finest craft experts—from batik dyers, to ikat-weavers, wood-carvers to silver-smiths, and more---participants will develop individual projects in direct response to the vast textural stimuli at hand. Demonstrations will, in particular, focus on an extensive range of surface techniques and their adaptability for hand-built and wheel-thrown projects alike.
Hillary Kane
February 12-25, TEXTURES and TEXTILES: Focus on Surface
Instructors: Hillary Kane
Course Level: all levels are welcome
Cost: USD $2200
(* includes: all studio materials, firing, instruction, accommodation, breakfast & lunches during studio days, and excursions around Bali)
Experience exploring surface techniques and form...in a culture renowned for exquisitely refined craftsmanship, Bali could not possibly offer more in the way of visual and tactile stimulation for the creative ceramicist. This workshop will endeavor to weave together a set of experiences that will provide enough inspiration for a year, let alone two weeks! After visiting a wide range of the finest craft experts—from batik dyers, to ikat-weavers, wood-carvers to silver-smiths, and more--participants will develop individual projects in direct response to the vast textural stimuli at hand. Demonstrations will, in particular, focus on an extensive range of surface techniques and their adaptability for hand-built and wheel-thrown projects alike.
Hillary Kane and guest Culinary Expert: Mary Jane Edleson
April 8-21, CULINARY CLAY: Food and Design
Instructors: Hillary Kane
Course Level: minimum beginning throwing/hand-building skills recommended
Cost: USD $2300 (* includes accommodation, breakfast and lunch, all studio materials, firing, instruction, and excursions around Bali)
Returning for it’s third incarnation, this is a remarkable workshop for any clay-lover with a specific interest in the intimate relationship between food and the vessel in which it is presented. Formal design considerations of shape, texture, color and scale will be explored in direct relation to specific unusual gastronomic selections. Participants will work closely with ceramic instructor and visiting culinary expert, creating utilitarian pieces as well as sampling and preparing the exquisite recipes that will be served upon them. The two-week workshop will culminate, appropriately, in a feast of the senses.
Barbara Campbell Allen
May 6-19, Baligama Wood-Firing
Instructors: Barbara Campbell Allern & Hillary Kane
Course Level: Minimum beginning throwing/hand-building skills recommended
Cost: USD $2300 (* includes accommodation, breakfast and lunch, all studio materials, firing, instruction, and excursions around Bali)
Delighting in the element of serendipity and spontaneous beauty, this workshop will explore the kiss of flame and the natural glaze effects of atmospheric wood- firing in Gaya CAC’s anagama (Japanese-style wood kiln) with wood-fire specialists. Barbara Campbell Allen and Hillary Kane will guide the participants to experiment with the variables of clay bodies and flashing slips, surface texture, and vessel shape as design factors influencing the subtle and dramatic effects of a natural ash surface.
Deborah Schwatzkopf
June 10-23, CONSTRUCTED SHAPES
Instructors: Deborah Schwatzkopf
Course Level: All level welcome
Cost: USD $2300 (* includes accommodation, breakfast and lunch, all studio materials, firing, instruction, and excursions around Bali)
Create expressive, functional forms with clay. Deborah Schwartzkopf will share construction techniques combining altered, wheel thrown and molded, slab built parts. Both those fluent in wheel throwing and hand building will benefit from blending these processes in this hands-on intensive.
Sketching, image presentations, and forays into the Balinese landscape will help us cultivate design ideas. Simple pattern and mold making will augment our exploration into non-round shapes. Join this playful excursion and explore innovative ways of making functional pots with clay.
Gyan Daniel Wall
July 1-7, ANAGAMA (WOOD KILN) BUILD
Instructors: Gyan Daniel Wall
Course Level: All level welcome
Cost: USD $1100 (* includes accommodation, breakfast and lunch, all studio materials, firing, instruction, and excursions around Bali)
Join the impressively experienced kiln-builder and ever inspiring wood-fired ceramicist, Gyan Daniel Wall, as he will lead this fast-paced, information-filled week of building theory and execution of a very particular style of anagama (tunnel wood kiln). Building on site of the gorgeous new Ceramic Arts Center, we will build with hand made bricks using a Middle-Eastern system of self-supporting brickwork to complete the entire kiln without an internal support structure. It promises to be an enormously educational experience for all—and one in which to really get your hands into mud!
Gyan Daniel Wall & Hillary Kane
July 8-21, INAUGURATION by FIRE: A Deep Study in Wood Firing
Instructors: Gyan Daniel Wall and Hillary Kane
Course Level: minimum beginning throwing/hand-building skills recommended
(no woodfire experience necessary)
Cost: USD $2300 (or USD $2900 if attending both the BUILD and the FIRING) (* includes accommodation, breakfast and lunch, all studio materials, firing, instruction, and excursions around Bali)
Again in 2012, Gaya CAC opens the invitation for the extraordinary: anagama-firing in the tropics! This two-week workshop will likewise explore the endless variables influencing the outcome of the wood-fired vessel, and our tenuous ability to manipulate them. While glancing back into historical, as well as contemporary wood-fired aesthetics around the world, participants will embark upon the journey of their own projects for the inaugural loading and firing of Gaya CAC’s second anagama kiln. An intensive two-weeks: work will be produced in the studio, loaded, fired for 2 ½ days of stoking, and then unloaded after cooling for the work of the flame to be revealed and displayed.
(With enough participants, we may even plan to load and fire both anagama simultaneously!)
Candone Wharton
Sept 2-15, RAKU FIRING
Instructors: Candone Wharton with guest demonstration by Michaela Foppiani
Course Level: All level welcome
Cost: USD $2300 (* includes accommodation, breakfast and lunch, all studio materials, firing, instruction, and excursions around Bali)
The term Raku (“enjoyment”, “ease”) is a unique form of Japanese pottery that was traditionally and exclusively used in the Japanese Tea Ceremony in the 16th century. Candone Wharton (USA), an experienced Raku artist for over 30 years, will share all her extensive skills and knowledge by introducing basic techniques of pottery making with an emphasis on exploring different tools to create myriad surface designs. Participants will work with a specially formulated raku clay body to create individualized forms both thrown and hand-built, various engobes, glazes, and a variety of influential combustible materials. Numerous firings will give participants a great experience in this dramatic “performance art” of clay.
Fong Choo
Sept 23-Oct 6 , PROPORTION OF THE TEAPOT
Instructors: Fong Choo
Course Level: Minimum throwing skills recommended
Cost: USD $2300 (* includes accommodation, breakfast and lunch, all studio materials, firing, instruction, and excursions around Bali)
Fong will explore the teapot form with reference to the perspective of proportions: from the large to the small and from the whimsical to the utilitarian.
As the workshop progresses, there will be lloads of tips and techniques demonstrating the makings of a teapot form, it’s appendages (spout, lid, handle, and body), as well as a tool making and cane handle assemblage demonstration.
A significant amount of time will be spent discussing glazing with the use of the airbrush/ dabbing to achieve the jewel tone effects.
The artist will also have a selective display of his work for the duration of the workshop and a selection of his homemade tools that will both be available for sale.
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