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August 1st and 2nd
Create a ceramic wall-hung sculptural face that will be a vehicle for telling a story with a personal meaning.
Let's Face It!
A 2-day workshop with one of the best:
Misty Gamble
August 1st and 2nd, 9AM - 4PM
Let's Face It!
A 2-day sculptural workshop with one of the nation's best:
Misty Gamble
Accomplished sculptor and educator, Misty Gamble will direct this figurative sculpture workshop where participants will create a self-referential narrative ceramic wall work. Class time will be focused on the hands-on experience of sculpting, and participants will be able to take home their unfired work at the end of the weekend. Students will learn basic anatomical construction and proportion of the face, including facial features and hair. Misty will simultaneously sculpt to demonstrate hand building techniques, anatomy, bone structure, and planes of the face. Participants will learn approaches to both idealized and expressive facial constructions. The participants will create a life size face or “mask” that operates as a vehicle for telling a story with a personal meaning. Bring an idea or personal theme that you would like to incorporate into your face. Though ceramic experience is recommended, it is not required. While there will not be sufficient time in the workshop weekend to fire the work, there will be discussion on kilns and firing processes.
$525/Participant for 2 days, 25lbs clay included
Bagged lunch is recommended.
A California transplanted feminist vegan living deep in cattle country on the High Plains of Texas, Misty Gamble creates life-size ceramic figurative sculptures and installations of multiple ceramic cast fragments, focusing attention on issues surrounding ecofeminism.
Misty is the Founder of Studio Nong: International Sculpture Collective and Residency Program which travels to China and the US to accomplish residencies that focus on clay figurative sculpture. She is also the founder of TETRA: Women of Ceramics at the Texas A&M System, a partnership of four contemporary ceramic artist/educators who are dedicated to the pursuit of creative exchange and public outreach through exhibitions, symposiums and workshops.
Misty is the recipient of a number of awards, grants and fellowships from the National Conference for the Education of Ceramic Arts, the Ellice T. Johnston Foundation, Ruth Chenven Foundation, Martin Wong Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, Windgate Foundation, Howard Kottler Fellowship, Byrdcliffe Fellowship, Ansley Park Fellowship, Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artist Award, Lighton International Artists’ Exchange Program Grants, multiple development grants from the Kansas City Art Institute and the Texas A&M system.
Misty has been a visiting artist at over 40 schools and art institutions and taught numerous workshops throughout the country and abroad. Misty has been awarded over 20 long-term and short-term residencies and fellowships and exhibits her work both nationally and internationally. She received her M.F.A. from San Francisco State University in 2007. She was a full time Assistant Professor at the Kansas City Art Institute for nearly a decade and has taught throughout Italy. Currently, she is 3D Area Head, Associate Professor of Art and the Steven Mayes Endowed Professor of Visual Arts at West Texas A&M University.
August 8th and 9th, 10AM to 5PM
Building Blobjects:
Joe Taylor
Organic Forms in Clay
A really fun 2-day workshop led by the imaginitive artist Joe Taylor in exploring dynamic organic forms through inventive building and textural techniques.
In this two-day ceramics workshop, participants explore a range of techniques for creating dynamic, imaginative organic sculptural forms. Through demonstrations and hands-on making, students will work with solid construction for carving deep textures, build complex rounded volumes from slabs, and combine multiple approaches into cohesive sculptures. The workshop also introduces strategies for scaling up work while minimizing physical strain. Focus is placed on exploring varied pathways to organic form-making through experimentation, process-based discovery, and material investigation. Suitable for beginners and experienced makers alike, this workshop provides accessible entry points alongside opportunities for deeper exploration.
$485/Participant for 2 days, 25lbs of clay included
Bagged lunch is recommended.
Born and raised in rural Northern Nevada, Montana-based ceramic artist Joe Taylor explores the emotional state of wonder through his abstract sculptures, investigating the relationships between people, landscapes, creatures, and the natural world. His work emerges from a deep curiosity about both the microscopic and macroscopic world, because of the way it can feel at once bodily, geological, and otherworldly. Through intuitive making processes rooted in play, Taylor creates sculptures that resist fixed interpretation, instead inviting open-ended engagement and discovery.
Taylor’s approach to ceramics emphasizes process as much as outcome. His forms often evolve through a series of reflections and responses, allowing each piece to develop its own internal logic. This commitment to exploration reflects his background as a K–12 art educator, where he spent 15 years fostering inquiry-based learning. That experience continues to shape his studio practice, where curiosity, experimentation, and responsiveness to materials remain central.
He earned his MFA in Ceramic Sculpture from the University of Montana and his BFA from Sierra Nevada College in rural Nevada. His work has been exhibited widely across the United States and is held in both public and private collections. Taylor has been mentored by Casey Zablocki, Trey Hill and Julia Galloway, and currently throws all of the urns for Julia’s ongoing Endangered Species Project.
Taylor is currently a long-term artist in residence at the Red Lodge Clay Center, where he continues to expand his practice. Across his work, he remains committed to creating objects that reconnect viewers to a sense of wonder, and encourage reflection on our place within the vast, interconnected systems of the natural world.
August 15th and 16th, 10am to 4pm
Sgraffito Demystified!
An illuminating 2-day workshop with Taos artist and educator
Jean Holmgren
This two-day immersive workshop is for all passionate doodlers, drawers, non-drawers and decorative mark-makers who wish to apply those skills to clay and discover their inner clay artist. The incomparable Jean Holmgren will be introducing and demonstrating the technique of sgraffito to those who have always wanted to bring their ideas to life. In addition to working the surface of the clay, we will explore design and drawing principles. Focus will be on the paper resist sgraffito technique and design transfer.
We encourage you to bring your existing leather-hard pieces (if you have any) to apply your sgraffito patterns or figures, however, greenware (unfired) tiles will also be provided.
No prior experierience required.
$450/Participant for 2 days, sgrafitto tool and tiles included
Bagged lunch is recommended.
Jean Holmgren is originally from Memphis, Tennessee and
immigrated to Taos about six years ago. She is a recent clay convert, changing her long-time focus from graphic design and traditional media to the more substantial, utilitarian and evocative substrate of clay. Jean received her BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design (Columbus, Ohio) in Illustration and Graphic Design and earned her MFA from Memphis College of Art (Memphis,TN) in Studio Arts. Jean has worked as a freelance illustrator, a graphic designer, an instructor at University of Memphis and as an Assistant Professor at Memphis College of Art in Design Arts, Illustration concentration.
Nathan's Back!
August 22nd and 23rd
10:00am to 4:00pm
Pots that Pour!
An outstanding 2-day workshop led by Montana ceramic artist:
NATHAN GODDARD
Nathan Goddard is back at the TCC for this creative weekend workshop, "Pots that Pour and Underglaze Monoprint Transfers". Learn Nathan's well-honed techniques for creating pitchers, bottles, ewars, and teapots. Nathan will also be sharing his unique surface decoration techniques of mono-print transfers. Using bright and colorful Speedball underglazes, Nathan will help you to add expressive design elements to your work. Participants should have some experience with throwing or hand-building and an interest in acquiring the knowledge to create surface treatments that will make your work zing! Workshop fee includes clay.
Speedball Ceramics is product sponsor of this workshop.
Firing of your work at TCC is optional but if desired, is priced by weight.
$450 / Participant, includes clay. 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.