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August workshops are
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Coming to the TCC from Tulsa, OK!
August 9th & 10th
9:00am to 5:00pm
The Quick Figure in Clay
A 2-day workshop led by the celebrated ceramic sculptor:
CLAYTON KEYES
Join the one and only Clayton Keyes for this 2-day workshop exploring slab building techniques for quickly rendering the human torso, head and hands from photographic reference material. Students will receive instruction in the processes stated above while working alongside Clayton to create their own in-process piece. He will also address a variety of finishing techniques, hot and cold, for students to employ on their own. This is one not to miss.
Clayton Keyes is an Artist and Educator living in Tulsa, OK and was the Ceramics Area Head at Westminster University in Salt Lake from 2013-2021. He is an alumnus of the Schools of Art at the University of Oklahoma (BFA) and the University of Tulsa (MFA). Clayton’s academic work focuses on human and animal figures for creating emotional narrative. Clayton exhibits nationally, and he provides workshops and demonstrations of his various processes across the US, at conferences, museums, craft schools, universities, and community studios.
You can read more about Clayton and view his work at claytonkeyes.com. Workshop fee includes clay. Firing of your work at TCC is optional but if desired, is priced by weight.
Artist Statement
My work investigates humanity in all its complicated messiness: its gestures and postures, its behaviors, habits, relationships, and neurosis; and how, through my imagery, I may communicate or trigger an emotional response in the viewer. I strive to imbue my sculptures with narratives and emotions that may be difficult to confront, and in a form that one may find stimulation or allure or maybe something troubling. While these characteristics are what typify my static work, my experiences as a teaching artist have begun to influence and otherwise motivate me to create better opportunities for connection. It has become increasingly important for me to seek a relationship to a larger community through learning, collaborating, making, and displaying. There is an inherently collaborative and performative component to teaching, and especially so when teaching in the arts. For me, there is a joy in that. By working in a communal space, whether as teacher or artist, I derive a deeper satisfaction. Let’s make a connection!
Last year's workshop was amazing, this year's promises to be even better!
August 30th & 31st
10:00am to 4:00pm
Pots that Pour!
A 2-day workshop led by
the incomparable:
NATHAN GODDARD
He's back!!! Join Nathan Goddard for this 2-Day workshop to learn about his techniques for creating pitchers, bottles, ewars, and teapots. In addition to learning these fun and functional forms, he will share his surface decoration techniques of mono-print transfers. Using bright and colorful Speedball underglazes Nathan will help you add expressive design elements to your work. Participants should have some experience with throwing or hand-building and an interest in surface treatments and painting. Workshop fee includes clay. Firing of your work at TCC is optional but if desired, is priced by weight.
Speedball Ceramics is product sponsor of this workshop.
$445 / Participant (Limited to 8) A bag lunch is suggested.
Nathan was born in Grand Rapids, MI and has since lived in many parts of the country. He is well traveled in the USA, Europe, and Japan. He received his BFA in Studio Art and Land Art from the University of New Mexico. It was in the American Southwest that he began to see the greater potential of earth and materials in his paintings and installations.
His investigation of alternative materials and ceramics has
continued beyond his MFA work at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. In 2007, the State of Michigan commissioned him to design and develop the Governor’s Award for Arts and Culture. He was
awarded first prize in painting at the 2009 Festival for the Arts in Grand Rapids, MI.
Nathan is past Programs Coordinator at Red Lodge Clay Center. He has taught numerous ceramic courses and workshops to adults, college students, and youth, and was Adjunct Professor of Studio Art Ceramics at Wofford College and Lander University in South Carolina. He worked in Skælskør, Denmark at Guldagergaard as the Kiln Yard Technician in 2015-16. Nathan has made Red Lodge, MT his new home, where he enjoys mountain skiing, hiking, and land exploring. He exhibits his work regionally and nationally.
After 6 years exploring ceramics thorughout the US, Grayson returns to Taos!
August 22nd & 23rd
10:00am to 4:00pm
"Sometimes you just have to push it!"
A 2-day workshop led by the very imaginitive clay artist and teacher:
GRAYSON FAIR
In this workshop, participants will explore the art of embellishing and altering wheel-thrown pottery using gestural, spontaneous techniques. By integrating gesture into the pottery-making process, participants will not only learn how to enhance the form and texture of their pieces, but also how to infuse their work with personal expression. The primary goal is to empower participants to step outside traditional boundaries and explore their own unique voice within the craft of ceramics.
The focus will be on action and gesture, two core elements that help give life to the forms. Participants will learn how simple gestures, movement, and spontaneity can transform a basic wheel-thrown pot into a personalized, one-of-a-kind piece of art. Participants will need some experience with wheel-throwing. Workshop fee includes clay. Firing of your work at TCC is optional but if desired, is priced by weight.
$445 / Participant (Limited to 8) A bag lunch is suggested.
Register below or by clicking here.
Grayson Fair is an artist living and working in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He attended the University of North Texas and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2016. He studied sculpture, drawing, fibers, and majored in ceramics. In 2018 he spent a year as an Artist in Residence in Taos, New Mexico. In 2019 Grayson moved to Northern Arizona for a residency at the Reitz Ranch. In 2020, he moved to Pomona, CA for an Artist residency at AMOCA (American Museum of Ceramic Art). From Southern California he moved to Montana where he spent two years as the Woodfire Resident at the Clay Studio of Missoula. He then moved to Omaha, to work as a studio assistant to Jun Kaneko. Grayson's introduction to ceramics was through functional pottery, but now his focus is nonobjective, action-based sculpture.