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HANDBUILDING
May 28-30, 2010
Atlanta, Georgia
Hosted by Spruill Center for the Arts

Mark Your Calendar and Register Today!

SPACE IS LIMITED

Featured Artist:

Take Your Work to the Next Level!
The HANDBUILDING conference will bring together a diverse group of ceramic artists to demonstrate, share and answer any questions you have. Each presentation will involve all steps of the process, from the type of clay, to forming, finishing and firing. This conference will help you build upon your existing skills and learn new techniques that will take your work to the next level.

800.424.8698

PORCELAIN II
October 22-24, 2010
San Diego, California
Hosted by Clay Artists of San Diego

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SPACE IS LIMITED

Featured Artist:

Erin Furimsky, Kristen Kieffer, Jennifer McCurdy and Lorna Meaden

What you will learn:

• Learn decoration techniques from stamp-making and stamping to slip-trailing and resists.
• Altering and darting wheel-thrown forms.
• Learn how to create pots that have a generous sense of volume and fluidity of line, with wheel-thrown and altered porcelain.
• Altering pots on and off the wheel.
• Slip inlay surface treatment.
• The step-by-step instruction- from throwing to decorating- of making a porcelain watering can.
• Discover the technique of dry-throwing porcelain.
• Hand carving forms in the leather-hard stage.
• Discuss the concept of strength vs plasticity in the porcelain as it moves through the working stages.

23rd ANNUAL NORTH CAROLINA POTTERS CONFERENCE
CRAFT IS A VERB
March 5–7, 2010
Asheboro, North Carolina
Sponsored by Randolph Arts Guild and Potters Council

Schedule of Events | Presenters | Registration Information

EXPRESSIVE SURFACES
Kansas City, Missouri

Ceramic Artist - Lorna Meaden was featured in Ceramic Arts Daily Newsletter.
Watch the videos on Wheel Throwing Video - Fitting Form: How to Alter Wheel Thrown Pottery Using Darts | Even the Pros Mess Up Spouts! Potter Lorna Meaden Demonstrates “A Great Way to Fix a Spout You Ruined”

Ceramic Artist - Lorna Meaden was featured in Ceramic Arts Daily Newsletter.
Read the articles: More is More: Lorna Meaden | A Very, Very Fine Line: Drawing on Pottery with Inlaid Slip

FOCUS ON FUNCTION
Cincinnati, Ohio

Ceramic Artist - Amy Sanders was featured in Ceramic Arts Daily Newsletter
Read the article Quilting with Clay: A Handbuilt Soft Slab Ceramic Wall Art Project

Ceramic Artist - Mike Baum was featured in Ceramic Arts Daily Newsletter.
Read the article Hip to be Square: Making Squared Casseroles

SURFACE FORM & SUBSTANCE
Indianapolis, Indiana

Ceramic Artist - Debra Fritts was featured in Ceramic Arts Daily Newsletter.
Read the article on The Figure in Clay: Ceramic Sculptor Debra Fritts Gives a Sneak Peek of Potters Council Workshop

Ceramic Artist - Jeffrey Nichols was featured in Ceramic Arts Daily Newsletter.
Read the article on Building up Luminescent Surfaces with Commercial Underglazes.

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Watch video techniques from past workshops

SURFACE FORM & SUBSTANCE
Indianapolis, Indiana

Ceramic Artist - Eva Kwong was featured in Ceramic Arts Daily Newsletter.
Watch the video on Using Paper Stencils for Precise Underglaze Decoration.

Ceramic Artist - Jeffrey Nichols was featured in Ceramic Arts Daily Newsletter.
Watch the video on How to Make a Properly Functioning Handbuilt Spout for a Teapot.