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Date: October 10 & 11
Times: 11am - 5pm w/ 1hr lunch
Level: All
Membership Price: $225 (Members can use code MEMBERS10 upon checkout to receive 10% off)
Please bring clothes that you feel comfortable getting dirty! Water bottles are encouraged!
Workshop Description:
Participants will learn to utilize various hollow hand building techniques such as slap coiling and the balloon method to create a figure around 8 x 8 inches large. Participants will learn how to utilize facial features, texture, and underglaze techniques to build character narratives.
One bag of cone 5/6 sculpture clay per student and access to matte/ non-gloss underglaze will be provided as part of the class.
About the Instructor:
Originally from San Francisco, Bella Marinos is a ceramic artist and curator currently based in Southern California. Their work incorporates cultural imagery and ritualistic elements inspired by their Mexican heritage in an ongoing exploration of generational trauma, death, grief, gender identity conflicts, religion, and colonialism. Fascinated by connection, obsession, and secret-keeping, Marinos’ curatorial practice embraces the heartfelt: they focus on craft, process, and careful collection, with particular attention to ephemeral objects and oral histories that have been historically disregarded.
Marinos’s work has been exhibited in museums and galleries including Craft Contemporary, the Museum at the California Center for the Arts, La Mama Galleria, Guggenheim Gallery, Brea Gallery, Melrose Botanical Garden, and the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art.
They received their BA in Psychology, Philosophy, and Art from Chapman University in 2023., and have served in various administrative and registration roles for Los Angeles-based galleries and artists, including Tanya Bonakdar Gallery and Craig Krull Gallery. They’re currently a Curatorial Associate at Cal State Fullerton’s Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana.
Required Materials: Personal clay tools - needle, metal rib, wooden knife, wire tool etc
Optional Materials: Feel free to bring your favorite paint / underglaze brushes.