3-D from the Inside Out: Developing Sculptural Form Using Repoussé Techniques
Location: Scottsdale Location
Room: TBA
Jan 29-31, 2010
Meets 9:00 AM-4:00 PM
on Sun Fri Sat
Tuition: $350.00
Material/Firing Fee: $15.00
Level: BEG-INT
Status: This program is completed
This workshop will build on the sculpting processes learned in the weekly course “Seeing Is Believing, An Introduction to Sculptural Form Using Ceramic Techniques”, which is recommended but not required as a prerequisite. During the three-day workshop, students will work in water-base clay using slabs of clay to build hollow sculptural forms suitable for firing. We will use the repoussé technique (a traditional metal working technique) of pressing and pushing out volumes from the back side of the slab. The clay comes to life, acting like skin as it stretches over your fingers pushing out the form from the inside out. This process lends itself to working with the figure but students will be free to choose their own subject matter.
Ceramic surface finishes will also be discussed and small test pieces will be glaze fired during the workshop. Students may make arrangements with the school to have their larger pieces fired after the workshop ends.
Instructor -- Jane Kelsey-Mapel
Jane Kelsey-Mapel’s figurative ceramic sculpture can be found in numerous public and private collections such as the Gloria and Sonny Kamm Teapot Foundation of Sparta, North Carolina and the City of Phoenix Collection of Contemporary Arizona Ceramic Art at the Phoenix Airport Museum. Currently she has work exhibited in the National Juried Biennial Ceramics Exhibition at the University of Northern Arizona Art Museum. She is represented by Phoenix art dealer Victoria Boyce.
- Clay: Each student will need 50 lbs of WS5 White stoneware. (Available for purchase at school.)
- Tools Students Will Need to Provide: Students should bring various pottery and sculpting tools which can be purchased individually at Marjons or in a pottery tool kit. Most other art supply stores also carry pottery tool kits. The kit includes a needle tool, wooden modeling tool, wooden rib, metal rib, small loop tool, large loop tool, cut off wire and a small sponge.