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Saturday and Sunday,
November 7th & 8th, 10am-4pm
THE SPACE BETWEEN
Instructor: James Marshall
Have you ever felt a creative impasse with your work in clay? Spinning around and repeating the same things over and over without knowing how to break away? Do you find yourself making work that is derivative and not from your own creative voice?
In this workshop, we will explore building different kinds of volumetric shapes with a focus on the space between and inside of a form. New unique forms will be constructed using slab and coil building techniques to reach beyond your personal aesthetic. In this way new discoveries can be made. Discoveries that can be used to expand the creation of your own work. The foundation then for this experience is to have fun building and creating something new and different. Led by the incomparable James Marshall.
ALL LEVELS OF EXPERIENCE ARE WELCOME!
about James
James Marshall’s education in the ceramic arts began with a pottery apprenticeship in Guatemala while serving in the Peace Corps. For two years he lived and worked with the Quiche, a Mayan First Nation tribe during his service assisting in a pottery cooperative and agriculture. In 1977, he began his studies for an MFA at the Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He graduated with an MFA in sculpture in 1979.
James’ sculptures and drawings in ceramics, wood, cast bronze, copper wire, steel, graphite and charcoal are included in over 150 public and private collections and museums, nationally and internationally. Additionally, his work has been widely published in books, magazines and newspaper articles. Gallery affiliation includes the Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe, NM, the William Campbell Gallery in Ft. Worth, TX and the Duane Reed Gallery in St. Louis, MO.
Presently, James is Professor Emeritus at Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe, NM, where for the past 25 years as Program Head, he established a Ceramics Program for the School of Visual Arts. He is committed to expanding access to the creative process and is actively engaged with students and the community. James lives and works in Santa Fe where he maintains two studios.
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"She's simply the best!"
Saturday, November 14th & Saturday, November 15th
10am - 4:00pm
DRINKING IT IN!
Cups, Cups, Cups
Instructor:
Maggie Mae Beyeler
A Truly Fun 2-Day Handbuilding & Surface Workshop with Paper Templates and Underglaze Transfers.
A cup is a deceptively simple form. We use one every day, often without thinking about all the decisions that make it work. How does it sit on the table? Is it balanced? How does it feel in the hand? Does the handle actually work? What happens at the rim? Does it need a foot? What gives a cup its personality?
In this workshop, participants will explore those questions while handbuilding a wide variety of drinking vessels using paper templates—from coffee mugs and tumblers to espresso cups, whiskey cups, shot glasses, and forms of their own invention. Working primarily with slabs, you’ll use paper templates to explore shape, proportion, and volume. The template is a starting point, not the completed design. Small changes can completely alter a finished form, and participants will learn to manipulate and alter their vessels.
Surface embellishment will be part of the process from the beginning. We’ll experiment with underglaze paper transfers, texture, simple screen printing, stencils, and combinations of these techniques. On the second day, we’ll take those basic forms further—altering shapes, adding handles and feet, refining rims and edges, and continuing to build and layer surfaces after construction.
Because the work will be glazed and fired after the workshop, we’ll also discuss finishing options and glaze choices. Over the course of the weekend, participants will make a collection of drinking vessels while building a toolbox of templates, construction methods, and surface techniques.
NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY! Clay is included.
$425 / Participant (Limited to 8) A bag lunch is suggested.
Register below by clicking here.
about Maggie
A long time friend of the Taos Ceramics Center, Maggie began making ceramic art in 1987 when she chose to focus her life’s work on creating beautiful objects for everyday use. From 1990-1993 she studied ceramics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, receiving a Master’s Degree. For 20 years, she operated Magpie Pottery out of her home studio in Santa Fe and taught numerous classes and workshops at colleges and community clay centers throughout the Southwest.
The focus of her interest is in the textural/surface possibilities of clay, along with forms and imagery that refer to the natural world utilizing both slab and wheel-thrown forms. Over the past 15 years, Maggie investigated the use of laser-toner transferred images to enhance the surface quality of her work. She is now considered an expert in this area.
