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Michelle Gregor & Adrian Arleo Download
Learn How to Sculpt a Figure (6 hours)
Price: $50
Description: These back-to-back 3 hour workshops are hosted by Adrian Arleo and Michelle Gregor with a brief intermission where they discuss figurative sculpture. This 6 hour video will teach you anatomical sculpting, coil building, hand building, and transforming slab to sculpture. Michelle also reviews all the sculpting tools you will need to create pieces like hers (click here for list.) The video wraps up with a Q&A where Michelle and Adrian answer some questions from their Zoom audience. With a combined 8 decades of sculpting experience, these masters provide valuable insight you can’t get anywhere else.
Arthur Gonzalez
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Learn How to Sculpt a Head & the Nuts & Bolts of Hanging a Wall Piece (3 hours)
Price: $50
Description: In this demonstration, professor and internationally-known artist, Arthur Gonzalez, will show you how to create the back of a wall piece so your artwork can hang beautifully. He will show you step by step how to measure and construct all the necessary elements to fasten your wall pieces safely and professionally. He will also go into depth on how to sculpt a head from scratch with just a slab of clay and some simple sculpting tools. The video wraps up with a Q&A where Arthur answers some questions from his Zoom audience. Gonzalez has been teaching since 1982 and, with his workshop, you can establish a solid foundation for essential sculpting skills.
Esther Shimazu
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Learn How to Sculpt a Dog’s Head & Paws (3 hours)
Price: $50
Description: Esther Shimazu has established herself as one of Hawaii’s premier artists, best known for her stoneware sculptures of bald, nude, chunky Asian women and quirky, playful dogs constructed with hand-building techniques. In her demo Shimazu will show you how to sculpt individual dog parts and eventually attach them to form a body. She then demonstrates how to sculpt a dog head and attach it to the body. Throughout the process, she explains her list of tools she uses and how they create the desired effects and textures. The workshop video concludes with Esther answering questions from the/ Zoom audience.
To download Esther’s list of tools click here
Beth Lo
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Glazing & Painting Demo from Beth Lo. (3 hours)
Price: $50
Description: In her workshop and demo, Beth Lo teaches you how to hand build plates, cups, and vessel forms in her sunny Montana studio. She reveals her glazing and surface decoration techniques as well as some tips for firing pieces in the kiln. Beth also explains certain properties of glazes and how you can pick and choose which ones will help you best realize your vision in the studio. The workshop wraps up with Beth answering some questions from the Zoom audience.
Patti Warashina Download
Lecture & Demonstration from Patti Warashina. (3 hours)
Price: $50
Description: In her 3 hour workshop Patti Warashina demonstrates how to create two different sculptures from scratch. She reveals her hand building techniques, the tools she uses and some of the most useful sculpting techniques she discovered in the 1960s. There is also a tour of her studio and a Q&A portion near the end of the video where Patti answered questions from the Zoom audience.
Kevin Snipes Download
Lecture & Demonstration from Kevin Snipes (3 hours)
Price: $50
Description: Kevin Snipes is a master of design and concept creation. In his workshop, he shows you how to design a piece from scratch. He reveals his process for creating maquettes out of paper. Once assembled, these completely customized paper sculptures can be used to model a clay piece. Over the past 2 decades, Kevin has refined this process down to a science and brings you along step-by-step demonstrating and explaining how to save time and money with this method of model building. This Q&A and masterclass in efficient design will make your artwork better and your studio time more valuable.
Irina Zaytceva Download
Irina Zaytceva’s Lecture and Demo (3 hours)
Price: $50
Description: Irina Zaytceva’s workshop and demonstration unravels the meticulous process behind her delicate porcelain works. She focuses on how to create profitable, smaller works such as porcelain sculptures. She demonstrates how to sculpt clay bodies and reveals the secrets behind her signature glazing and gold leaf decoration. The video concludes with a Q&A portion between Irina and her Zoom audience.
Heidi Bekebrede Workshop
Heidi Bekebrede Workshop and Demo (3 hours)
Price: $50
Designed for ceramicists of all levels, Heidi’s workshop can be used to teach kids and adults in a fun group setting. This class is perfect for teachers as it offers helpful songs and teaching methods that are accessible to anyone. Heidi will also show you how to incorporate a kiln into your classroom and what kind of projects you can create with students. The workshop concludes with Heidi answering questions from her Zoom audience.
Tip Toland Download
Tip Toland Figurative Sculpture Workshop (3 hours)
Price: $50
Description: Join renowned artist Tip Toland from her studio in Washington for an intimate workshop! This dynamic and courageous sculptor demonstrates her technical prowess and divulges some helpful tips while sculpting a head and a mask. Then, Tip shows how to connect a head to a bust in 3 stages, showcasing 3 different busts during various stages of production. She also goes into detail on how she uses surface decoration to achieve hyperrealistic skin tones. The workshop concludes with a Q&A portion of Tip answering questions from her Zoom audience.
Lisa Reinertson Workshop
Lisa Reinertson Workshop (3 hours)
Price: $50
Lisa Reinertson is known for both life size figurative ceramic sculptures and large-scale public sculptures cast in bronze. In her workshop, she demonstrates and explains how she sculpts in relief and how she works with a model on a life size figure. She also offers a tour of her studio and answers questions during a Q&A with her Zoom audience.
Lisa Clague Download
Lisa Clague Workshop (3 hours)
Price: $50
Lisa Clague is known for her fantastical, playful, mysterious figures. In her workshop, this distinctive sculptor shows you how to make a head out of a cylinder as well as how to sculpt a monkey hand. She also discusses all the different finishes and and textures she uses to achieve her highly detailed and varied surfaces. The video concludes with a tour of her studio and a Q&A session with her Zoom audience.
Shalene Valenzuela Workshop
Shalene Valenzuela Workshop (3 hours)
Price: $50
Shalene Valenzuela is one of the most important slipcase artists working today. In her workshop, this protege of Richard Shaw will show you how she slipcases a telephone from start to finish. She demonstrates how to make a mold, how to create slip and how she paints in various stages on the telephone sculpture. Click here for a complete list of everything you need to follow along.
Michelle Gregor Download
Date: Sunday, Nov. 8th
Price: $100
Description:
Are you ready to bring your figurative sculpture to the next level? Do you feel like you have hit a plateau with your current work? Do you strive to loosen up but find yourself repeating old habits? This ceramic workshop is a rare opportunity to work alongside Michelle Gregor, from the comfort of your own studio, and push your limits. All levels welcome.
Richard Notkin
Workshop
Date: Saturday, November 21st
Price: $50
Description: This intensive, fast paced three hour demonstration will focus on Notkin’s myriad of techniques used to create sculptural forms, narrative vessels and teapots, and large scale tile murals. Notkin is recognized as a master of sculpture, mold-making and casting techniques in clay. Various modeling, small-scale carving and surface texturing techniques will be demonstrated by Notkin.
Margaret Keelan Download
Date: Saturday, Dec. 5th
Price: $50
Description: Margaret Keelan will hand-build a sculpture from start to finish, demonstrating her unique process of repeatedly glazing, staining, and firing to give surfaces the idiosyncratic appearance of disintegrating paint over weathered wood.
Rene Martucci
Workshop
Date: Saturday, December 19th
Price: $50
Description: In this workshop, ceramic restoration extraordinaire and artist René Martucci will demonstrate the nitty-gritty process of repairing broken ceramics. If you’d like to work alongside Martucci in repairing your own ceramic art and ask questions, that is more than welcome. Some topics of discussion include: fixing ceramic imperfections, building and constructing missing parts, gluing, and the reassembly of ceramics. Preparation of tools is encouraged; a list of tools will be provided in advance.
Chris Theiss Download
Date: Saturday, Jan. 2nd 2021
Price: $50
Description: The focus of this 3 hour workshop will be Sgraffito, the ancient ceramic surface technique of scratching or carving through a layer of contrasting colored clay slip to expose the color of the clay body beneath. Chris began playing with this technique as a student at the Rhode Island School of Design, when trying to figure out how to incorporate his drawing skills with three-dimensional clay forms. His love for this technique and drawing on clay, has remained a part of his art process throughout his career as a ceramic sculptor.
Chester Arnold
Workshop
Date: Saturday, Jan. 9th
Price: $50
Description: Chester Arnold’s workshop will be a presentation on the evolution of ideas in painting, from sketchbook rough to finished painting - pulling together processes of thinking and technique. Chester will make a small painting within the 3 hour and will give insider info on preparation and technique.
Alessandro Gallo Download
Date: Saturday, Jan. 16th 2021
Price: $50
This 3 hour workshop will focus on hand-building and figuration and aims at sharing both techniques and ideas behind my work. Alessandro Gallo will give an overview of his approach from start to finish focusing on: Reference preparation, Building an armature, Hand-building solid, Cutting, Hollowing and putting everything back together, Firing & Finishing.
He’ll be using videos to document his process and quick demos to highlight tricks and talk about specific tools and materials. Throughout the second half he’ll talk about his work and answer questions from participants.
John Toki
Workshop
Date: Saturday, Jan. 23rd 2021
Price: $50
Description:
John Toki is considered a technical expert in ceramics. He has created over hundreds of glazes, built an entire line of kilns, and wrote an introductory ceramic text entitled ‘Hands in Clay’ that explains techniques of how to work in clay. His outdoor freestanding clay sculptures are seen across America, and his engineering skills to produce large format clay sculptures has been taught and passed onto over a hundred of artists.
In this workshop, Toki will create a small free-standing sculpture made of colored clay, stoneware, and porcelain from start to finish. Toki will teach how to plan and execute a 4’ x 3' standing sculpture while focusing on techniques of structural design elements, steel armatures, connections, reinforcing with fiber glass, color tinting, and kiln firing methods.
Mark Abildgaard Download
Date: Saturday, Jan. 30th
Price: $50
Description: In this workshop, Mark Abildgaard will explore the possibilities of using clay to create objects that can be cast in glass. He will demonstrate clay working techniques, how to approach creating an open-face mold for kiln casting, plaster mixing, mold making, and how to calculate the amount of glass needed for a casting. Participants will explore making textures in clay that can be transformed into glass. This will be an opportunity for people interested in working with glass to learn how to make a mold, set up an electric kiln for casting, and program firing/annealing cycles.
Bill Abright
Workshop
Date: Saturday, Feb. 6th 2021
Price: $50
Description:
Bill Abright will discuss the evolution of his 50 year career in ceramics and share his methods of creating uniquely abstracted figurative sculptures using thin plaster molds of fish, birds, faces, and figures. By composing thrown and extruded wet clay shapes into molds, he maintains the familiar proportions of his subjects while inventing his own interior complexity. Bill will discuss and demonstrate all stages of the process, including making thin plaster or FGR molds, throwing odd shapes, extruding clay sticks, assembling mold, drying, and firing. Pre-fired examples will allow him to continue using underglazes and cold finishes to demonstrate a completed sculpture.
Esther Shimazu: How to Build a Figure - Torso & Body Parts Workshop
Date: Saturday, February 13, 2021
Description:
Torso & Body Parts Workshop - February 13th, 2021: Esther will begin with mostly slab and coil built hollow torso, thighs, legs, and upper and forearms. Store well to keep moist several layers of soft plastic and/or in a plaster damp box or large plastic container.
Clayton Keyes
Workshop
Date: Saturday, February 20th 2021
Price: $50
Description:
Clayton Keyes will demonstrate the process of constructing a full torso, head, arm and hand in this 3 hour workshop and demonstration. This will be a slab built demonstration.
Artist Statement: I investigate the human figure in order to create work that will trigger emotional responses in the viewer: I portray emotions elicited by strife and oppression, which comes from an urge to impress upon the viewer the experiences of the oppressed and to draw from them empathy for such. I strive to imbue figures with narratives and emotions that may be difficult to confront. I equally endeavor to make the rendering of the figure visually stimulating and alluring. My wish is for the viewer to be confronted with and experience this tensioned duality, as it is this that allows me to indelibly affect them.
Esther Shimazu: How to Build a Figure - Hands, Breast, Shoulders, Arm Parts
Date: Saturday, February 27 2021
Price: $50 each
Description:
Torso & Body Parts Workshop - February 27th, 2021: Individual toe- and fingernails, toes, fingers, hollow palms, insteps and soles. Maybe wrap in soft plastic and store in a plastic container with a tight lid to keep safe.
Esther Shimazu Assemblage
Workshop
What: Assemblage Workshop
When: March 6th, 2021
Description:
In four workshops, learn specific areas of the body and how to build an entire figure with Esther Shimazu. Ahead of time, we will send you a list of all the supplies and tools you will need to do each workshop.
Posing and joining all the parts, seeing how they interact. Parts should still be moist but not wet. If time allows, some discussion of finishing and firing.
Esther Shimazu: How to Build a Figure - Head, Neck Workshop
Date: March 20th, 2021
Price: $50 each
Description:
In four workshops, learn specific areas of the body and how to build an entire figure with Esther Shimazu. Ahead of time, we will send you a list of all the supplies and tools you will need to do each workshop.
Head & Neck Workshop - March 20th, 2021: Constructing a mask, installing eyeballs, teeth and tongue, then adding the cranium and ears and figuring out the neck. With the remaining time, allowing the piece to firm up so it can be maneuvered without fear of deforming.
Jason Walker
Workshop
When: Saturday, March 13th, 2021
Price: $50
Description: Jason will create cups and demonstrate his style of painting on them. He will also go into the process of slipcase and how he uses it in his work.
In my ceramic sculpture, I have been exploring how technology has influenced and molded our perceptions of nature. Yet, what is nature exactly? What image is conceived with the word? If typed into a google search, nature is defined as “the phenomena of the physical world collectively, including plants, animals, the landscape, and other features and products of the earth, as opposed to humans or human creations”. This description of nature excludes humans and human creations from nature. It creates two very separate worlds – the human made world and the non-human made world. How have we, human beings, arrived at such a perception of ourselves and nature? Part of an answer lies within the arena of ‘human creations’ – or Technology.
Gerit Grimm: Wheel Thrown Figure Assembly Workshop
When: March 27th 2021
Price: $50
Inspired by Italian Renaissance and fairytales, Gerit Grimm’s large-scale sculptures celebrate classical imagery and the figure.
In her online demo, this professor from University of Wisconsin, Madison, will show you how to assemble a figure using parts assembled on a throwing wheel. This 3-hour demo will feature a Q&A section where you can interact with Gerit and gain further insight on how to build stunning large human and animal figures like hers.
Dean Fisher Workshop Download
Date: Sunday, March 28, 2021
Price: $50 each
Description: Dean Fisher’s figure painting workshop will offer participants the chance to learn Dean’s process of developing a painting of the human form in oils from the beginning, to creating an illusion of form, light and gesture. The primary goal will be creating a resolved image through a very direct and economical approach to painting from life.
Chris Riccardo Workshop Download
Price: $50 each
Description:
Chris Riccardo received his BFA in sculpture from the College of Fine Arts at Boston University in 1990. In 1995, Chris went on to open his own commercial bronze-casting foundry, RDK Studios in West Palm Beach, FL. It is there that Riccardo honed his skills and began teaching figurative sculpture at the nearby Armory Art Center. Shortly after, he decided to sell his foundry and concentrate on his work and teaching. In 2007, Chris was named the Director of the Sculpture Department and Foundry Manager.
More recently, Chris has joined again with artist Beth Cavener and her husband, Alessandro Gallo in Helena to create the Studio 740 - housed in a 98 year old seed and feed warehouse. It is here that Chris is developing his new vision of work.
Art of Painting Conference
Schedule:
10am-11am: Julian Bell
11am-12pm: Julie Heffernan
12pm-1pm: Lunch Break
1pm-2pm: Chester Arnold
2pm-3pm: F. Scott Hess
3pm-4pm: John Seed
The Art of Painting in the 21st Century is an annual conference and exhibition in its eleventh year and is geared towards nurturing dialog on contemporary painting and the shared ideas that define current trends in the field. Many painters work alone, an isolated process that deprives the artist of thriving debate until the work is shown. This year’s online conference will feature some of the most talented and well known painters working today, such as Chester Arnold, Julian Bell, F. Scott Hess & Julie Heffernan. The event will conclude with a lecture by writer and art historian, John Seed.
Yeonsoo Kim Workshop Download
Date: Saturday, May 1 2021
Time (PST): 1 pm – 4 pm
Price: $50 each
Description: Learn the lost art of the Onggi technique, a method unique in the world for coil building large pots and forms. Traditionally born out of necessity in Korea, Onggi pots were and still are used today for food fermentation and storage. A quintessential example of how form follows function, both the forms and building techniques are a living art in and of themselves. You will be given your own set of wooden tools, and taught how to make coils, flatten the base of the pot, and coil the clay using the “Taryeom” method. Later you will learn how to paddle the form and shape it, giving you a newfound sense of volume and proportion on a large scale. There are only a handful of Onggi masters left in Korea, and even fewer opportunities to learn from them one on one.
Richard Whitten Workshop
Date: Sunday, May 2 2021
Description: Richard Whitten, Professor of Painting at Rhode Island College, draws on his technical knowledge and art history to discuss:
DEVELOPING A PERSONAL COLOR PALETTE
Every artist’s palette is personal. Their palette fits their concept of how their paintings should look. Is their painting Earthy? Natural? Artificial? Unworldly? Much of how an artist succeeds in making a painting feel a certain way is in what pigments they choose to use.
Palettes have been small. Rembrandt’s used only seven pigments. Nevertheless, the contemporary artist has over a hundred permanent pigments to use—each with its specific properties. This is an overwhelming, redundant, and ultimately unwieldy number.
This seminar will discuss strategies for building a palette. Pros and cons for different pigments will be discussed as their mixing qualities are demonstrated. The initial pigment needs of the painter will be established. Then, additional colors will be suggested and discussed.