ALTERED APPROACH TO CLAY
September 13-15, 2013
Nashville, Tennessee
Presented by Potters Council
Hosted by The Clay Lady’s Studio, Artist Co-op & Galleries, and Mid-South Ceramic Supply
Take away the guesswork
We have four highly talented presenters who will provide instruction on their personal approach to altering forms with components, slabs or tools. Attendees will learn their philosophical motivation behind the presenters’ alterations as well as skills to create their own approach. Whether you throw or handbuild this conference has something for you to take back to your studio. This conference is open to artists at all levels: from enthusiastic amateur, to the teacher, and for the professional. No matter what level you are, if you’re open to learning and connecting with other ceramic artists then this is the conference for YOU!
Mark Your Calendar and Register Today
Deadline to Save $50 is August 4, 2013
Featured Presenters:
Susan Filley, Suze Lindsay,
Jennifer McCurdy and Courtney Murphy
For more information and to register, click on a link below:
Schedule of Events | Presenters | Host & Sponsors
Hotel Information | Conference Location Information
Travel & Directions | Visitor Information
Registration Information
Highlights for Attendees…
- Learn how to alter thrown forms
- Discuss how to fire gas kiln to create rich colors and microcrystalline surface details
- Learn the following surface decoration with slips that will include brushwork, wax and paper resist, sgraffito, mishima, hakame and majolica
- Discussion on how to build up an interesting surface with mark-making and patterning.
- Learn how to pull handles off the pot
- Learn the technique of “dry throwing”
- Learn carving techniques on leather hard porcelain
- Discussion on sanding techniques of bone dry porcelain
- How to use simple bisque molds with earthenware
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| Friday, Sep. 13, 2013 | All events are located at The Clay Lady’s Studio |
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Registration and Opening Reception | Rm: East Gallery |
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| Sponsor/Vendor Exhibit | Rm: East Gallery |
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| Presenters’ Art Exhibit | Rm: West Gallery | |
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| 8-9 am | Registration | Rm: East Gallery |
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| Sponsor/Vendor Exhibit | Rm: East Gallery |
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| 9-12 pm | Susan Filley | Rm: Studio A |
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| Jennifer McCurdy |
Rm: Studio B |
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| 12-1 pm | Lunch (provided) | Rm: The Event Room |
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| Sponsor/Vendor Exhibit | Rm: East Gallery |
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| 1-4 pm | Suze Lindsay |
Rm: Studio A |
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| Courtney Murphy |
Rm: Studio B |
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| Sunday, Sep. 15, 2013 | ||
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| 8:30-9 am | Registration | Rm: East Gallery |
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| Sponsor/Vendor Exhibit | Rm: East Gallery |
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| 9-12 pm | Suze Lindsay | Rm: Studio A |
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| Courtney Murphy | Rm: Studio B |
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| 12-1 pm | Lunch (provided) | Rm: The Event Room |
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| Sponsor/Vendor Exhibit
Closes at 1pm |
Rm: East Gallery |
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| 12:45-1 pm | Pottery Exchange(optional) | Rm: South Gallery |
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| 1-4 pm | Susan Filley | Rm: Studio A |
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| Jennifer McCurdy | Rm: Studio B |
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Saturday and Sunday Presenter Demonstrations
The opening reception starts at 5pm on Friday night. At the reception attendees will register and meet presenters, hosts and other attendees in a casual environment. It is a time for networking and making life long connections with other artists.
Sponsor/Vendor Exhibit
Pottery Exchange
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REGISTER NOW
Deadline to Save $50 is August 4, 2013
PRESENTERS (back to top)
SUSAN FILLEY
The Elegant Line in Form and Finish
As we work through our ideas, and the pots that we make, we slowly find a sense of voice in our work. Susan has worked exclusively in porcelain for over 30 years and her work has a defining sense of gestural form and elegance. These pots evolved from quite simple and basic pots with flowing calligraphic brushwork decoration. Susan will share some thoughts about developing her sense of form and attention to detail. A collector described her work as having that special understated touch of beauty that one finds in a simple natural wonder, a stone or flower just found along the path.
As a thrower, Susan starts with thrown forms and then dramatically alters them, cutting away parts, folding, forming and reattaching to make her lovely graceful pots. Susan will demonstrate the techniques in parts, as the process takes time and patience to alter with porcelain successfully. These steps, to cut away and fold the thrown forms, to carefully combine forms and then to finish with various tools to create flawless surfaces can lead to many approaches and ideas.
During the demonstration, Susan will also share information about her glazes. She fires in a gas kiln creating rich colors and microcrystalline surface detail. Her uniquely varied forms seem to demand a wide array of glaze approaches from layered crystal mattes to the simple elegance of her opal clear.
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Additional Information
Susan has worked for over 30 years as a studio potter, she received her Master’s of Fine Arts in ceramics from LSU. Susan’s work has been exhibited internationally, including the Fletcher Challenge Awards in New Zealand and in many national exhibitions – 21st Century American Ceramics, Contemporary Clay National Exhibition, and the Strictly Functional Pottery National. Recognized for her gestural grace in form and rich glaze surfaces, her work has been published in both books and magazines – Ceramic Design Book, 500 Teapots, High Fire Glazes and more. Her works are in the Shiwan Museum in China, the La Grange Museum, Georgia, and many private collections.
Susan Filley was the President of NCECA, the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, and the first studio potter to serve in that position. She is now recognized as a Fellow of the Council.
Susan has taught in many capacities including Penland Craft School, Arrowmont Craft School, college and museum programs, and many workshops. Awarded a grant by the SC Arts Commission in 1999, Susan established an innovative studio gallery in Charleston, SC, which was devoted to supporting ceramic art. In 2005, Susan moved and built a private studio in Chapel Hill, NC.
For more information about Susan, visit susanfilley.com
SUZE LINDSAY
From the Wheel to the Tabletop
Starting with thrown forms on the wheel that are gently manipulated, or stretched out of the round, Suze will move to the tabletop with these soft leather hard forms that will be darted and combined by stacking and assembling creating altered forms such as vases, pitchers and teapots. Using slabs, spouts will be handbuilt, and any handles will be pulled off the pot. Suze’s surface treatment responds to these altered forms by pouring, dipping, and brushing on slips to enhance and highlight volume and personality of each pot.
Suze’s stoneware pots subtly suggest figure and character as she manipulates her forms by altering them after they are thrown. Her intention is to create functional forms that have a personality of their own. An integral part of her work includes surface decoration to enhance form by patterning and painting slips and glazes for salt-firing. Her mark-making is strongly influenced by studying historical ceramics from cultures in Japan, Crete, Chile, China, and Native North Americans. The springboard for form and function started with the study of Bernard Leach’s ideas while she was a CORE fellow at Penland School of Crafts in 1987-89 and continue to feed her interpretation of altered forms that function well.
Additional Information
Suze Lindsay is a studio potter living and working in the North Carolina mountains. Her ceramic studies include a two-year fellowship from 1987-89 at Penland School of Crafts as a “core student”, followed by earning an MFA from Louisiana State University. She also holds two educational degrees, one in special education and the other in Montessori teaching theory. In 1996, after completing three years as an artist in residence at Penland, Suze and her husband, Kent McLaughlin set up and began potting in their studio in Bakersville, NC under the name Fork Mountain Pottery.
Suze has taught at numerous art centers and universities, nationally and internationally. Several of those can include: Penland School of Crafts in NC, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in TN, Haystack in ME., Anderson Ranch Art Center in CO., Jingdezhen Ceramic Instititute in China, Cuaraumilla Art Center in Chile, and Metchosin International Summer School for the Arts in Canada.
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For more information about Suze, visit www.forkmountainpottery.net.
JENNIFER MCCURDY
Testing the Limits of Porcelain in Thrown, Altered, and Carved Sculptures
Jennifer will demonstrate the technique of “dry throwing”, using two metal ribs to create the shape of the piece, after the basic cylinder has been thrown. Next, she will show how altering and folding that form by hand can add movement and strength. Then you will see carving techniques on the porcelain when it is leather hard, and we will briefly discuss sanding techniques once the piece is bone dry.
Additional alterations to the piece can occur in the white hot heat of vitrification, and we will discuss strategies to encourage and control slumping in the firing. We will discuss the concept of “strength vs. plasticity” in the porcelain as it moves through the working stages from wet to dry through vitrification. The porcelain Jen uses is Miller#550 by Laguna clay. It fires to cone 10.
Additional Information
Jen has been selling her porcelain in art shows and galleries for the last thirty years, and her work is included in the collections of several institutions, including the Smithsonian Renwick Gallery in Washington, DC, the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY, and the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, CA. She maintains a studio in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts. Her focus on the reflective and bone-like quality of the bare porcelain has led her to explore the light and shadow of the clay forms, resulting in a unique melding of line and structure. She is looking forward to sharing some of the tricks she has learned along the way – tricks of the trade, and tricks of porcelain.
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For more information about Jennifer, visit www.jennifermccurdy.com.
COURTNEY MURPHY
Form, Line and Color: Drawing on Pots
Courtney will demonstrate both throwing on the wheel, using simple bisque molds with earthenware, with slips and sigs, decorating at the greenware stage, and decorating on top of majolica glazes on bisque using slip trailers and underglazes.
Courtney uses a smooth earthenware clay body. On some (mostly larger) pieces, she decorates with slip at leather hard, and carves through with drawings, using a contrasting colored sig on the bottom. She also decorates using majolica glaze with underglaze drawings over the glaze. She electric fires her work to cone 02.
Additional Information
Courtney first began working with clay while living in Brooklyn, NY. After several years of working for potters around the city, she moved to Portland to study ceramics at Oregon College of Art & Craft. She recently completed a two year artist-in-residence at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT and is currently living in Missoula, MT working at the Clay Studio of Missoula.
Courtney has been working full-time as a potter for the past several years, creating modern hand-built and wheel-thrown tableware and decorative wall hangings. Her designs are influenced by simplified abstractions of nature, children’s artwork, folk art, mid-century modern forms and shapes, as well as patterns, textiles and weathered surfaces. She is compelled by the variation found in hand-made objects; a slight change in the profile or image on a cup decides whether a person will be drawn to one cup over another. She enjoys the process of scratching into the clay to draw her images and designs. Because of this process, each piece created is unique, and there is a slight variation in each drawing.
Courtney loves creating functional work because the handmade objects leave her studio to become a part of somebody else’s daily routine. She likes the personal connection that handmade objects help to create. When she looks in her kitchen cabinets, she is reminded of all of the people she has met over the past few years working as a potter. It’s nice to have these personal objects that help preserve memories of the places she has been and people she has met along the way.
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For more information about Courtney, visit www.courtneymurphy.net.
HOST & SPONSORS (back to top)
THE CLAY LADY’S STUDIO, ARTIST CO-OP & GALLERIES and MID-SOUTH CERAMIC SUPPLY – Host
1416 Lebanon Pike
Nashville, TN 37210
Phone: 615-242-0346
Email: danielle@theclaylady.com
Website: www.theclaylady.com
Website: www.midsouthceramics.com
AMACO/BRENT – Sponsor
6060 Guion Road
Indianapolis, IN 46254
800-374-1600
317-244-6871
Mayco – Sponsor
4077 Weaver Court South
Hilliard, OH 43026
614-675-2018
Segers Pottery Tools – Sponsor
375 Sandleton Way
Evans, GA 30809
pamelasegers1204@yahoo.com
678-592-3833
segerspotterytools.com
Shimpo – Sponsor
1701 Glenlake Avenue
Itasca, IL 60143
800-237-7079
Skutt – Sponsor
6441 S.E. Johnson Creek Blvd
Portland, OR 97206
503-774-6000
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Pottery Texture Queen– Sponsor
potterytexturequeen@yahoo.com
potterytexturequeen.com
CONFERENCE VENUE (back to top)
THE CLAY LADY’S STUDIO, ARTIST CO-OP & GALLERIES
The Educational Facility at Mid-South Ceramic Supply
1416 Lebanon Pike
Nashville, TN 37210
Phone: 615-242-0346
Email: danielle@theclaylady.com
Website: www.theclaylady.com
Website: www.midsouthceramics.com
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The Clay Lady’s Studio
The Clay Lady’s Studio is a 3,000 square foot educational facility located at Mid-South Ceramic Supply Co in Nashville, TN. The studio is designed to meet all facets of clay creativity for children,
teens and adults: hand-building, sculpting and pottery. Learn more…
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The Clay Lady’s Artist Co-op and Galleries
The Clay Lady’s Artist Co-op and Galleries is a self-sustaining facility providing 35 emerging and professional artists private studio space and gallery opportunities in a mentoring, supportive and educational environment next to our studio via a courtyard with waterfalls and outdoor gathering area. Learn more…
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Mid-South Ceramic Supply
At Mid-South Ceramics, we are committed to a Higher Standard of Service, Supplies and Education.
A Higher Standard of Service: Fast and Accurate and we are committed to be helpful ALWAYS!
A Higher Standard of Supplies: We carry the Supplies you need and we are committed to make sure they are the best quality and price! Mid-South Ceramics manufactures Opulence Glaze and The Clay Lady’s Products – two lines of products that make your production easier and successful!
A Higher Standard of Education: Offering information about products, as well as classes and workshops for all ages and levels of expertise through The Clay Lady’s Studio!
From Raw Material to Product.
From Product to your Projects.
From your Projects to Profession.
We are here for you!
For more information visit: www.midsouthceramics.com
HOTEL INFORMATION (back to top)
The conference is being held at The Clay Lady’s Studio, 1416 Lebanon Pike, Nashville, TN, 37210.
HOTELS
We have room blocks at two hotel locations. Both are within 10 minutes from The Clay Lady’s Studio and 15 minutes from the airport. The hotels are located in a nice tourist area called Music Valley by Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Grand Ole Opry and are near Cracker Barrel, Santa Fe Cattle Co., Scoreboard and John A’s restaurants, as well as numerous music venues.
Courtyard by Marriott at Opryland
125 Music City Circle
Nashville, TN 37214
(800) 228-2800
(615) 882-9133
Website: Courtyard by Marriott at Opryland
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$149 per night plus tax. Features new signature beds with plush mattresses & pillows, free Wi-Fi, desk, comfy chair & ample lighting, irons, ironing boards, coffee makers, 32″ TVs and free cable, HBO and ESPN.
Airport Shuttle Service: Airport shuttle service, on request, complimentary, call (615) 882-9133.
Ask for Potters Council (POT) meeting block to get preferred rates. Room block will be held until Wednesday, August 14, 2013. Reserve Online with the following link: Reservations
Here are some additional links and information: Maps and Transportation | Fact Sheet | Restaurants and Lounges
Fairfield Inn & Suites Nashville at Opryland
211 Music City Circle
Nashville, TN 37214
(888) 236-2427
(615) 872-8939
Website: Fairfield Inn & Suites Nashville at Opryland
$119 per night plus tax (Includes complimentary hot breakfast). Features fresh new design with plush bedding, free wireless internet and large work area, flat screen TV and Free cable with ESPN and CNN.
Airport Shuttle Service: Airport shuttle service, reservation required, fee: $10 (one way), call (615) 872-8939.
Ask for Potters Council (POT) meeting block to get preferred rates. Room block will be held until Wednesday, August 14, 2013. Reserve Online with the following link: Reservations
Here are some additional links and information: Maps and Transportation | Fact Sheet | Restaurants and Lounges
TRAVEL & DIRECTIONS (back to top)
Airport:
Briley Nashville Airport (BNA)
website: www.nashintl.com
Ground Transportation from Airport:
- Hotel Shuttle – The Courtyard provides complimentary service to and from the airport. The Fairfield Inn & Suites offers Shuttle service but has a $10 one-way fee. Please see hotel information for complete details.
- Car Rental – As a Potters Council member benefit we offer discount rental programs with ALAMO and AVIS. Read more…
Driving Directions form Airport to the Hotels
From I-40, Take hwy 155 north Briley Pkwy to Exit 12 (McGavock Pike) at the light make a left turn. Go to the first stop light and make a right on to Music Valley Drive. Drive 1/2 mile, turn left onto Music City Circle. The Courtyard Marriott is on the left and the Fairfield Inn & Suites is on the right.
VISITOR INFORMATION (back to top)
Find out what’s going on down south. From the honky-tonk floors to the symphony hall walls, there’s more live music in Nashville than anywhere in the world. And much more. This is a great opportunity to bring your family or friends and extend your visit.
Year-Round Excitement On Music City Event Calendar
No matter what time of year, there is always so much going on in Music City. Go here to see a listing of events including all of the following that are within a 20 minute drive of The Clay Lady’s Studio:
Local Attractions
Frist Center for the Visual Arts – www.Fristcenter.org – The Frist Center for the Visual Arts is a nonprofit art-exhibition center, with approximately 24,000 square feet of gallery space, dedicated to presenting the finest visual art from local, state and regional artists, as well as major U.S. and international exhibitions.
2nd Ave/Broadway – Very popular night spot in Downtown Nashville. Home to tons of nightclubs, bars, and popular spots where many famous Country Music stars got their start. Historic Nashville, country music history and live music, quaint shops and restaurants.
The Arcade – covered walkway with shops, restaurants and several art galleries including The Twist, Arcade 57, Andy Anh Ha, BelArt Studio & Gallery, Blend Studio, The COOP, Froelich Gallery, O Gallery, Studio 66, Suite 69 and Twist Art Gallery.
The Parthenon - The Parthenon is the city of Nashville’s longest-lived art museum. It’s galleries are the home of the distinguished Cowan Collection of American art located in Centennial Park.
Centennial Park – Nashville’s premier park, the 132-acre park features: the iconic Parthenon, a one-mile walking trail, Lake Watauga, the Centennial Art Center, historical monuments, an arts activity center, a beautiful sunken garden, a band shell, an events shelter, sand volleyball courts, two dog parks, and an exercise trail.
Cheekwood Botanical Gardens and Art – www.cheekwood.org – Cheekwood boasts amazing outdoor gardens and space to explore as well as several art galleries and installation spaces indoor and throughout the gardens. Visitors can walk through the 55 acres and discover different styles and periods of gardens and study a wide selection of plants that can be grown in Middle Tennessee.
REGISTRATION (back to top)
You are invited to register online or by telephone.
- Click here to register online.
- To register by telephone, call toll free at 800-424-8698 or direct dial is 818-487-2054.
- Student discounts (Valid Student ID) and Day Passes available, but they are limited. Call 800-424-8698 for more information and to register.
Mark Your Calendar and Register Today
Deadline to Save $50 is August 4, 2013
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| On or Before August 4 | After August 5 |
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| Potters Council Member | $315.00 | $365.00 |
| Non Member | $367.00 | $417.00 |
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Registration fee includes the reception of Friday, and lunch on Saturday and Sunday. Make checks payable to Potters Council in U.S. dollars, drawn on a U.S. bank. Cancellation Policy: Full refund less $50 if canceled on or before August 12, 2013; 50% refund if canceled between August 13, 2013 and September 13, 2013; no refunds after the start of the conference.
To cancel you must call toll free at 800-424-8698 or direct dial is 818-487-2054. |
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