
Repetition in Form
Discover how to create tableware by blending wheel throwing, slabs, and bisque mold-making techniques, mastering consistency and precision in every form.
Create three dimensional relief surfaces while expanding your handbuilding skills using soft slab construction.
June 22 – June 28, 2025
One week session
Kiln Unveiling
Saturday, June 28, 2025
Steere Studio
@ 10:00 AM
18+
$2,130
$1,150
$70
$50
All levels
Enrollment is limited to 12 students
Want to become a confident hand-builder; making pots with richly embossed surfaces? Working with soft slabs, students will learn a variety of forming techniques including darting, stretching and connection; skills that allow us to create complex hand-built forms. Through the week we will make mugs, pitchers, covered jars and teapots, and discuss both aesthetic and functional considerations. We’ll also learn ways to design new forms using templates.
The surface decoration we will explore utilizes embossing plates to achieve three dimensional relief. Collecting natural material from this unique landscape, we’ll impress it into the clay to make our own embossing plates: in a way capturing something of our local environment. I’ll also bring a variety of plates for us to use. Plan to take good healthy risks, try new things, and take away bisque pieces.
Christy Knox is a ceramic artist, educator and naturalist from the United States. She holds a bachelor’s degree in art education from the University of Illinois and an MFA in Ceramics from Ohio University. Her work has been represented by galleries throughout the United States and is held in private collections around the world. Christy has made a living as a full time studio potter for 40 years, taught workshops across the country and her work has been published in two books on ceramics.
Artist website: www.christyknox.com
Instagram: @naturalelementspottery
Facebook: Natural Elements Pottery
50 lbs B-Mix with Grog WC893 Laguna clay, bisque firing, and shared supplies including slip.
The program will begin Sunday morning, with a brief orientation at 8:30 am. Workshops will start at 9 am.
Sunday night will feature a program mixer, where you will have an opportunity to meet with your classmates outside of the studio, as well as meet 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- 4 pm.
Artist Talks will be held in the evenings on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. This is a wonderful opportunity to listen to our H.O.T. Clay instructors speak on their art.
On Saturday morning at 10 am, join your fellow workshop participants for an exciting kiln unveiling and celebration!
Discover how to create tableware by blending wheel throwing, slabs, and bisque mold-making techniques, mastering consistency and precision in every form.
Explore the fusion of color theory and form in ceramics. Enhance your skills with colored clay, experiment with materials, and gain a deeper understanding of color's role in your ceramic practice.
Explore the fusion of color theory and form in ceramics. Enhance your skills with colored clay, experiment with materials, and gain a deeper understanding of color's role in your ceramic practice.