The Human-Animal Connection
Location: Phoenix Location
Room: Shemer Art Center
Mar 25-Apr 9, 2011
Meets 9:00 AM-3:00 PM
on Fri Sat
Tuition: $300.00
Material Fee: $30.00
Level: All Levels
Status: This program has been canceled
The first two days of this workshop will be spent working in water-based clay to create expressive animal sculptures which embody human characteristics and may even be coupled with human figures. We will be using the traditional clay technique of slab building to construct hollow forms suitable for firing. Exterior and interior support structures will be discussed.
The pieces will be left for the following two weeks to dry and be put through the first (bisque) firing. The third day of the workshop, Saturday, April 9, the students will be applying underglazes to the pieces. The sculptures will be fired a second time and students may pick them up after the class ends.
- Class Meets March 25, 26 and April 9, 2011
- Instruction to take place at the Shemer Art Center, Phoenix
- Materials fee includes clay, glazes and firing of final sculpture
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.