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Dates: March 7 - 8
Times: Sat 10am-3pm and Sun 1-3pm
Level: All
Membership Price: $185 (Members use discount code MEMBERS10 at checkout to receive 10% off)
Workshop Description:
Participants will learn the traditional technique of pit firing for ceramic works. The workshop will cover the construction of a firing pit using locally sourced, foraged, and domestic waste materials, as well as various techniques for creating marks on the wares. We will explore how different historical communities utilized this method and discuss how it can be adapted for contemporary ceramic practice. Students will leave with their fired pieces and the practical knowledge to implement this technique within their own community.
About the Instructor:
Sakshi Mathuria, an Indian artist, operates her studio MetaMaati in Pune, located in the rural grasslands of Maharashtra's Western Ghats. Her artistic development is self-designed, including instruction from Neha Kudchadkar and Sandeep Manchekar. Currently, she is a long-term artist in residence at the Mendocino Art Center. She was previously a resident at the Rochester Folk Art Guild, NY, and is a recipient of the NCECA Multicultural Fellowship’24.
Her work draws immensely from land and centers on the intertwining of ecology and spirituality in everyday lives. She uses clay not only as a tool but as practice itself to honour tactility as a way of knowing and challenging disconnected ways of living. This pursuit is explored through foraged material, wild clay and alternative firing techniques that become archival processes of the same pursuit.
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Required Materials:
Low fired clay bisque ware of any colour (burnishing, tera sig'd is encouraged)
Closed toed shoes and full clothing for safety purposes.
Optional Materials:
N95 mask
coffee grounds
dried fruit peels (citrus and bananas)
corn husk