Glaze Workshop: Natural Additives
Saturday & Sunday, March 28th & 29th from 9:00am-3:00pm
Join aritst, educator, and recent Artworks Northwest Biennial participant Gregory Pierce in this two-day workshop!!
About Greg:
Gregory Pierce is a studio artist and Chair of the Fine Art Department at Heritage University in Toppenish, WA. In his work, he explores connections to specific landscapes embedded with cultural remnants that provide opportunity for contemplation. He does this by condensing personal viewpoints, memories, and traces of human detritus into layered abstract forms. These forms are created through a distinctive process that fuses naturally sourced rock material with clay, glaze, and other materials.
About The Workshop:
On the first day of the workshop, Greg will provide an overview of finding local rock and mineral resources, how to process these safely and ethically, understanding basic rock types and their influences on slips and glazes. He will also have students prepare slabs for day two, where the students will choose soft or hard slab shaping to make an object of their choosing (vase, tea tray, planter, cup, etc.). Students then get to choose between three glaze color options, and the works will be dried and fired in-house to be picked up at a later date.
This class is recommended for intermediate/advanced students with some clay experience.
Suggested for students ages 15 and up. Cost of class includes all instruction and materials.