All Things Pottery

18+

Boost your wheel throwing confidence with exercises focused on fundamental pottery techniques essential to a potter’s arsenal.

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Overview

In this workshop, discover how to craft pots that express your unique sensibilities. Guided through a meticulously designed series of wheel-throwing exercises, participants will refine fundamental techniques and gain efficiency on the potter’s wheel. Demonstrations will include methods for producing a variety of utilitarian pottery forms, production throwing methods, sectional throwing, trimming, and the process of a cone 6 reduction soda firing. Participants will leave class with soda-fired glazeware, bisqueware, and a strong foundation for making objects on the potter’s wheel. Open to all levels, some wheel experience is preferred. Advanced students will be able to foster the development of a personal pottery style.

You will bring 5-10 small to medium-sized bisqued pieces made from cone 6 clay for the soda firing. All pieces must fit within a 12” x 20” perimeter with a maximum height of 9” tall. Bisqueware will be provided for beginning throwers.

Additional Information

Sam Lopez is a potter and educator living and working in San Diego, California. He is a lecturer of Art and Ceramics at San Diego State University, MiraCosta College, and Grossmont College and thoughtfully crafts wheel-thrown pottery meant for everyday use. He is passionate about design and enjoys experimenting with new processes and concepts that continually push his work forward to better serve its user. You can find his pottery in kitchen collections throughout the U.S. and abroad.

Artist website: www.slopstudios.com
Instagram: @slopstudios

The lab fee includes clay, firing, and shared supplies.

The program will begin Sunday morning with a brief orientation at 8:30 am. Workshops will start at 9 am.

Sunday night will feauture a program mixer where you will have an opportunity to meet with your classmates and other students in our adult programs for the week.

Monday nights feature an opening reception at the Parks Exhibition Gallery, featuring work from our very own summer faculty!

Daily instruction occurs from 9am-12 pm with a break for lunch in the campus dining hall (included in tuition) and followed with more instruction from 1pm- 4pm.

Artist Talks will be held in the evenings on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. This is a wonderful opportunity to listen to our Metals Week and HOT Clay instructors speak about their art.

Friday afternoon, while work is being fired, enjoy other students’ work at the culmination event outside Parks Exhibition Center, before heading over to the H.O.T. Clay Pizza Party.

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