Sculpting Clay Botanicals
Location: Phoenix Location
Room: Shemer Art Center
Oct 8-23, 2010
Meets 9:00 AM-3:00 PM
on Fri Sat
Tuition: $300.00
Material Fee: $30.00
Level: All Levels
Status: This program is completed
This workshop will enable students of all levels to make a water-based clay botanical sculpture. The forms can stand alone or be used as elements of assemblage sculpture. During the first two days, students will make clay floral forms using primarily slab and coil techniques. The sculptures will dry and go through the first (bisque) firing during the following two weeks.
On the last day of the workshop, students will add color to their sculptures with underglazes. The clay botanicals will then be fired a final time. Students may pick up their finished sculptures after November 1.
- Class meets October 8, 9 and 23, 2010
- Instruction to take place at the Shemer Art Center, Phoenix
- Materials fee includes clay, glazes and firing of final sculpture
Instructor -- Sandra Luehrsen
Sandra Luehrsen was born in Chicago, Illinois. She earned BA and MA degrees in Art at Northern Illinois University and an MFA degree in Art at Arizona State University (ASU). In 1999, Luehrsen left a position as assistant dean of the Graduate College at ASU to start her own business. She also teaches three-dimensional design at Mesa Community College in Arizona. Luehrsen exhibits her ceramic sculpture and digital artwork nationally and internationally. Arizona’s Chandler Center for the Arts and the West Valley Art Museum awarded her solo exhibitions in 2007. In 2008, a major body of her sculpture appeared in Bodacious Botanicals at the Phoenix Airport Museum at Sky Harbor. Central Arizona College invited Luehrsen to mount a solo exhibition in November – December of 2010. www.sluehrstudios.com