Stan Welsh Workshop Download

Date: Saturday, June 5 2021

Description: Learn to make ceramic figures that are clothed, wrapped, and holding objects and carrying burdens with an emphasis on expressive and textured surface treatment.  This class will help students find simple and direct solutions to technical problems with a focus on individual direction and personal symbolism.  A variety of techniques will be demonstrated including slab construction, extruder construction, pinched forms, coil construction and press molds.

In the 80s, American ceramicist and teacher Stan Welsh made large, stylized narrative terra-cotta head forms with heavy incising and carving filled with brightly colored glazes. Later his work became more monochromatic, referencing social and political issues. His most representational work is a series of heroic terra-cotta heads, four to five times life-scale; they are expressive, intense with facial expressions.