The Sculptural Vignette
Location: Scottsdale Location
Room: TBD
Oct 15-17, 2010
Meets 9:00 AM-4:00 PM
on Sun Fri Sat
Tuition: $350.00
Level: All Levels
Status: This program has been canceled
This workshop will challenge you to create not only a small figure but to create a specific environment in which the figure exists. A vignette is a fragment of a larger scene. You will work from photographs, actual objects and drawings to create a small sculpted figure with perhaps furniture, objects and possibly even animals. These objects may be symbolic in meaning and may create a surreal feeling to the piece. The resulting sculpture will become a narrative, telling a story about the figure. Jane will show examples of contemporary ceramic sculpture to acquaint the students with the vast array of possibilities of clay imitating other materials both natural and man-made.
- Mini WEEKEND Workshop
- Traditional hand-building techniques
- Use of interior and exterior support structures
- Discussion of fired surfaces such as underglazes and glazes
- The pieces will be hollow built and suitable for firing after the workshop
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.