Summer Masters Series Workshops 2009
REGISTRATION: There is a one-time Registration fee of $60 good for the entire school year and summer. Registration fees just for the summer are $15.
GHP's Summer Masters workshops are led by visiting artists and are designed to inform, inspire, and cultivate new ideas. Participants spend extensive time in the studio with the focus on learning techniques, receive in-depth critiques, and engage in informal seminar presentations and discussions. Workshops run from 10AM to 4PM daily; studio facilities remain open until 10PM. Firing and Materials are included in the cost of Tuition for the Summer Masters Series.
“Ceramic Art: Towards a Personal Aesthetic” with Richard Notkin, July 10 – 12 (Handbuilding), 3 Days, $345
This three-day workshop will cover handbuilding, carving and surface textures and detailing, plaster mold-making, slip-casting, clay body alterations through the addition of non-ceramic materials, layering techniques, and post-fire surface alteration processes. Notkin will discuss various aesthetic considerations, including: developing personal sources of inspiration, conceptual design, format and compositional alteration of form and imagery, scale, creating a narrative.
Richard Notkin is a studio artist in Helena, Montana. He received a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute (1970), and MFA from the University of California, Davis (1973). His works are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Victoria and Albert Museum (London), and The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park (Japan). He has conducted workshops throughout the world. Among his awards are fellowships from the NEA, grants from the Guggenheim and Tiffany foundations. Notkin was featured in the PBS series, “Craft in America”, and was named Fellow of the American Craft Council in 2008.
“The Potter’s Challenge: Shinos on Porcelain” with Malcolm Davis, July 10 – 12 (Wheel), 3 Days, $345
Porcelain and Shinos are two of the potter’s most challenging materials. This workshop will focus on both of them, the magic and the mysteries, as well as the failures and disillusionments. Malcolm Davis will spend the weekend at the wheel, making pots, talking, trimming pots, telling stories, assembling pots, and talking some more. The day will also include conversations and discussions about the mysteries and tricks of carbontrapping shinos, as well as a glazing demonstration if desired.
Malcolm Davis is a studio potter internationally recognized for work with shino-type glazes. He is the recipient of numerous awards and grants. He has been an artist-in-residence at Baltimore Clayworks; Greenwich House Pottery (NYC); The Clay Studio (PA); Red Star Studios; Northern Clay Center; among others. Malcolm’s work is included in collections at the Museum of Arts and Design; The Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art; the Everson Museum; Mobach Collection, Utrecht, Holland; and at Old Church Cultural Center in Demarest, NJ. He has been featured in over 15 books and publications and has published articles in American Shino by Lester Richter and Stayin’ Alive by Robin Hopper. Malcolm has taught and lectured widely throughout the United States and Canada.
“Ready, Set, THROW!” 5-Day Hands On Workshop with Christa Assad, July 15 – 19 (Wheel), $550
This workshop is a perfect opportunity to hone and strengthen your forms to embolden your work! Christa will demonstrate throwing and altering techniques, cutting and constructing, and incorporating hand built additions into a variety of vessel forms. With a focus on teapots as a vehicle for expressing your ideas, students will be encouraged to explore the potential compositions of their thrown and hand built parts — to see these elements as building blocks with unlimited potential. We will examine the profiles, details, edges and joints of your pots, and whip those handles into expert shape. Never fear pulling a handle on your cup or pitcher again!
Christa Assad earned an MFA from Indiana University (2000), BA from The Pennsylvania State University (1992), and studied as a Fulbright Scholar at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (1993-94). Christa was awarded a Fulbright Research and Travel Grant (1993), and nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award (2005). Christa’s publications include Garth Clark’s Shards, Kevin A. Hluch’s The Art of Contemporary Pottery. Her work is in the permanent collections of The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco and the Ceramic Research Center at Arizona State University Museum among others.
“Ceramics and Print: Exploring the Image” with Scott Rench, July 17 – 19 (Handbuilding), 3 Days, $345
This seminar will include, a digital slide lecture that explores my 12 years of exploring ceramics and print. In the sessions we will cover the following: working with digital media to design and layout creative. Building a stretcher for screen printing, coating and exposing a screen. Creating digital film and other techniques needed for transferring images to screens. Direct screen printing techniques on clay.Attendees are encouraged to bring images of their work for a group presentation, a personal laptop and images for use in clay.
Scott Rench is best known for his innovative work in ceramics and print. His artwork combines ceramics, one of the oldest forms of expression, and computers, employing some of the newest technologies to create printed imagery on clay. A ceramist for more than 15 years, Scott has a BFA from the University of Wisconsin and an MFA from Edinboro University. He has given workshops promoting the use of color and image making in ceramics. Scott regularly shows his work Internationally and has conducted workshops all over the world including China, Denmark, England, Germany, Hungary, Scotland and the United Arab Emirates. An Art Director by day, Scott works for a Chicago advertising agency, receiving national and international attention for his award-winning work.
“A Wildness Within” with Beth Cavener Stichter, July 25 – 26 (Demonstration), 2 Days, $200
This workshop is intended to give participants a glimpse of how one can tackle elements of gesture and expression with subtle shifts in line and form. Through lecture and powerpoint presentation she will cover a range of practical technical information about working in clay as well as initiate discussion
on how we transfer ideas and meaning visually. Her unusual method of working is accessible to interested individuals at every level: working with a solid mass of clay, often over 2,000 lbs., and
then hollowing each part of the sculpture down to the skin.
Beth Cavener Stichter is known for her dynamic, emotionally charged animal and human figures. Beth is currently a full-time professional studio artist. She received her BA in sculpture from Haverford College and her MFA from Ohio State University. She was awarded the Virginia A.Groot Foundation Grant and an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council in 2005, and the American Craft Council’s Emerging Artist Fellowship in 2004. She has also been an Artist-in-Residence at the Clay Studio in Philadelphia and the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT. She has exhibited nationally (at such institutions as the Smithsonian Museum) and internationally and has taught numerous workshops across the country.
