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Dates: May 2 - 3
Times: Sat & Sun 10am-4pm with 1 hour lunch
Level: All
Membership Price: $275 (Members can use code MEMBERS10 upon checkout to receive 10% off)
Registration for this workshop includes one 25 pound bag of red low fire clay per student.
Workshop Description:
Learn to hand-carve your own unique designs into soft printmaking blocks, then transfer them onto clay slabs to create beautifully textured, raised surfaces. Using a low-fire red clay body, you’ll explore simple slab-building techniques to construct cylinders and other basic forms. Complete your pieces with a brushed-on oxide wash to accentuate the printed textures and surface detail. The work created in class can be taken home for firing in your personal studio or arrangements can be made with the Ceramics Coordinator to fire your work and ship it to you for a fee.
About the Instructor:
Zach Wollert grew up in Portland, Oregon and has worked in clay for over 25 years. He turned his obsessive interest in ceramic art into a career while working with professional ceramists in the coastal mountain range town of Elkton, Oregon. In 2015, he earned his Masters of Fine Arts from Kent State University and participated in artist residencies in Oregon and California. Zach is the Assistant Director of the Windgate Art School at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts located in Little Rock Arkansas. Before moving to Little Rock, Arkansas he was the Assistant Professor of Ceramics/3D Art at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
http://zacharywollert.com
Required Materials:
Blick lino block carving tool such as: https://www.dickblick.com/products/blick-lino-cutter-set/
Two 4”x6” soft lino blocks such as: https://www.dickblick.com/items/soft-kut-printing-block-4-x-6/
A bold drawing pencil like a 2b such as: https://www.dickblick.com/items/blick-studio-drawing-pencil-2b/
Optional Materials:
Handbuilding tools such as: needle tool, wire cutter, serrated rib or scoring tool, brush for slip/water.