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2008 Potters Council Schedule

Surface, Form & Substance - September 19-21

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Bringing together form and surface.
This conference will explore techniques that will help you create surfaces that enhance forms for functional and sculptural works in clay. You will be encourage to find inspiration in ordinary objects that can take your work beyond extraordinary.

Hands-On Instruction.
We are delighted to bring you a conference that is full of hands-on instruction with six of the country's influential and emerging artists sharing their techniques during an intensive two-day conference.

Debra Fritts will demonstrate a handbuilding technique that combines modeling, pitching, and coiling for small figurative sculptures. Develop your vocabulary and aesthetic of color with Ovidio Giberga. Susan Kemenyffy will share the secrets of how to balance contour and surface.

Eva Kwong, will reveal how to incorporate more color through the use of AMACO's velvets and colored slips. Jeffrey Nichols will demonstrate his unique approach to color and surface.  Learn unusual construction techniques with Lana Wilson, using soft slabs of  clay to make a teapot and stand.

Not only does this conference allow you to pick and choose the presenters that interest you the most, you are provided many opportunities to network with others in the clay community. 

The conference starts with an opening reception at the AMACO gallery. The reception will also include the Presenters Gallery to see the presenters work up-close. Following the reception and opening, Susan Kemenyffy will kick start the conference with a keynote, that will get us energized and ready for Saturday morning classes.