3D From the Inside Out: Developing Sculptural Form Using Repousse Techniques
Location: Scottsdale Location
Room: TBD
Mar 3-5, 2011
Meets 9:00 AM-4:00 PM
on Th Fri Sat
Tuition: $350.00
Level: BEG-ADV
Status: This program is completed
During this three day workshop, students will work in water-based clay using slabs of clay to build hollow sculptural forms. We will use the repousse 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. We will begin with faces which can be displayed as wall masks and move on to torsos and larger forms. Students will be encouraged to work loosely, focusing on responding expressively to the clay as it takes on form.
Pieces will be constructed so that they may be fired after the workshop ends. Application and firing of underglazes and glazes will be discussed.
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.