WORKSHOPS

Jacquie Rice, of Providence, Rhode Island,
is offering a one-day workshop at ECCAD
on Saturday, September 18th, from 10:30
am to 6:30 pm, Working in decorated and
low-fired functional ware, and a student of
Howard Kottler at U of W in Seattle, Jacquie
has for the past cight years been a teacher
and is Dean of Fine Arts atthe Rhode Island
School of Design. She wasrecently visiting
artist at Harbourfront in Toronto and has
given workshops at NSCAD, Haystack, and
Anderson Ranch, In the April “90 issue of
Ceramics Monthly, she writes, “Anenduring
fascination for the ornamental, that urge to
embellish and enhance- from foxx, fashicn
and flowers- is the key to my work.
Functional work peeds to be tactile im a
delicious sense, the way the petal of a flower
is slightly fumpy or wrinkled to the eye, but
velvetlike to the touch; it neeeds to look
unpremeditated in form, selfless, but
showing the hand, and in color, rich, like a
lemon sabayon, piquant.” Having spent
time in Italy studying indigenous ceramics,
for some years she has produced her own
line of majolica pottery for markets in the
States,

In the workshop for us, she will show and
discuss a barrage of slides, both in the
morning and late in the afternoon; a
demonstration of how she builds ber pieces
willbe fitted within the discussion amd slides.
Cost for the day is $30,14) for Guild individual
and group members, $35.00 for non-
members, and $25.00 for full-time students.
Walter Ostrom in his recent visit said that
she gives a great workshop. Please pre-
register through the Guild office by phone
or by sending in the form on page 8.

Are you bewildered by clay technology?
Puzzled by glaze calculation? Can you
assess aclay body for the appropriateness of
it use? Ace you flexible toward changes in
raw materials? Do clay and glaze thermal
expansions play a role in your everyday
patting life? Are you a vietim of shivering,
shelling, crazing, dunting, thermal
ratcheting or any other ceramic
incompatabilities? Well, set aside your fear
and loathing of these technical matters and
spend aday with potter Jim Robinson as be
attemps to unravel these mysteries, In a
humorous and informative session, Jim will

help you to gain a clay and glaze overview
with pertinent information and helpful
strategies for settling your ceramic quenes.

Jim Robinson will present a one-day
workshop on October loth at BECCAD, from
$:30 am to 4:30pm. A studio potter since
L371, he lives and works in the Southern
Oregon Bear Creck Valley and is the author
of several articles on clay and glaze
formulation written for Studio Power
Magazine, He will be able to field questions
and provide information for potters working
in high thru low temperatures, illustrated
with slides, test bars, glaze samples and
Fusion buttons. The intricacies and
applicability of several methods of glare
calculation will be address, along with the
important areas of materials selection (both
native and commercial) and clay body
blending. (He has recently been
experimenting and testing some new
Flainsman bodies.)

Tn preparation, have a look if you can atthe
Studio Potter magazine, Vol-9, No.2, 1981,
Vol. 16, No.2, 1988, and Vol.21, No.1, 1992.
Bring to the workshop your disasters,
toumphs and puzzles. During the day, Jim
will help to place them into a wide ceramic
context and to illustrate the interponnections
to be found among all clay work. Again pre-
registration is requested, by phone or
preferably by using the enclosed form on
page 8,

LIBRARY UPDATE

Lynda Chelak has agreed to take on the task
of looking afler the Library, but it's up to
you to use it. As ameans of enticement, just
a reminder of the publications that are
available for reference purposes, We
presently subscribe to Ceramics Monthly,
Ceramics Review, the Studio Potter, and
Contact, and also receive on exchange Fusion
and Ontario Craft. Somme issues of the latest
American Ceramics are on hand, as are
many issues of ihe New Zealand Potter, The
latest Ceramics Review includes an article
by Paula Gustafson on the Canadian Craft
Museum, and the summer issue of Studia
Potter has a fascinating article on Beatrice
Wood. We also have videos for rental, and
a library list is available for those of you
interested,

Bowls,

8" high, handbuilt earthenware,
with low-fire giazes, by Jacquie Rice

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September, 1993