TUESDAY EVES, 6 PM – 9 PM2015 SUMMER SCHEDULE - TBA
w/Monitor: Simon B. Keller
*Due to extensive travel commitments this year, Simon will not be available for sessions until Spring 2015.
Takumi is a different way of making clay art: it’s a hands-on experience for educators and students alike! Working with clay involves all our senses and fosters creativity and imagination. It provides a pro-active, cognitive and physical experience. As a wholesome activity, it contributes to a physical-mental balance. Clay has been a favored material with artists, educators and therapists for decades. It’s place in recreational and occupational therapy is internationally recognized.
Takumi is a different way of making clay art: it’s a hands-on experience for educators and students alike! Working with clay involves all our senses and fosters creativity and imagination. It provides a pro-active, cognitive and physical experience. As a wholesome activity, it contributes to a physical-mental balance. Clay has been a favored material with artists, educators and therapists for decades. It’s place in recreational and occupational therapy is internationally recognized.
Work with clay dug straight from the Earth and learn how to sift and prepare clay for sculpting on the wheel. It’s ORGANIC as it GETS! Discover the art of glazing and firing creative stoneware that is safe to eat off of and dishwasher safe. The Open Studio is available Tues from 6PM – 9PM. Sessions are also offered for small groups of 5 – 10 students to ensure a positive instructor / student ratio. Workshops are open ended.
All materials and firings for Takumi /Pottery Wheel Open Studio are included in the participation fee; all completed pieces will be glazed and fired. High school students 16+ and Earth Sentient Groups (over 62) are invited! Walk in any evening and pay on the spot.
$30.00 walk-in fee / $25.00 duCret Students & Alumni
Bring a friend for FREE (1x only per friend)
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For artisans in Japan to merge clay and other natural materials into a mixed-media artwork goes back a long way, perhaps 1000 years or more. It is deeply rooted in the art forms of Ikebana and Cha No Yu, expressing a natural, Zen-esque aesthetics that brings out the best of the materials and the artist.
This workshop explores the infinite possibilities of a wholesome materials-focusing approach that enhances their shape, texture, inherent properties and, of course, our imagination. In this sense you will be entirely free in your imaginative-creative power while challenging the diverse
conditions that are natural part of the materials. The world of opposites, static and changing materials (clay shrinks, a rock remains a rock in size and shape), randomly collected materials of no obvious connection that merge into a intentionally created form, complex material properties and a tranquil, meditative work process… experience a different kind of clay art workshop.
Mixed-media sculpture by Simon Keller, 2012/13. Coarse local proto-clay with impurities, kaolin slip, natural wood ash glaze splashes and desert stone, oxidation firing at 2318ºF (1270ºC).Random natural materials, sticks, shells, stones and more, or fragments of man-made materials (glass, metal, brick and more) will be incorporated into a clay vessel. We will explore throwing, sculpting and hand-building techniques to create the body. Carving, scraping, faceting and surface washing techniques will help enhance its structure.
The Open Studio will provide stoneware clay, natural wood ash glaze and other ceramic materials such as slips and oxides. This workshop is designed and instructed by the artist in residence, Simon Keller.
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