Two clay workshops offered by Santo Mignosa

Workshop one:

Pit firing

Saturdays August 19 and August
26 and Sunday August 27
Workshop on Pit firing at the Art
in the Country studio of Susan
Gorris in Aldergrove. These are all
day sessions starting with the
making of simple clay objects and
then pit fired. Beside being a
learning situation, it also offers
times for collegiality and friend-
ship among clay people in the
region, making the event some-
thing to remember. The cost: $
225.00 .

Workshop two:
Figure Clay Modeling

August 7and 11, times 9.00 am to
12:00 noon, intended to provide
an experience on clay modeling
the human figure with emphasis
on the anatomical and expressive
aspects of the figure, as well learn-
ing how to understand clay as a
creative medium. The cost : $
175.00.

These events will take place in the
Langley. area (venue to be final-
ized) Please contact: Susan Gorris
at: 604 856 0634 or: uu3sgor-
ris@shaw.ca

I wish to bring to the attention of
clay interested people, two inter-
esting workshops by

Vince Pitelka of Tennessee.

Workshop one: Colored Clay.
July 17/21, (all day). Offered by
the West Coast Clay Sculpture
Society at 1000 Parker,
Vancouver.

Description: Designed to allow
beginning and experienced clay-
workers to develop their abilities
in a wide range of colored clay
techniques. Techniques to be cov-
ered include making/mixing of
colored clays, safety concerns,
marbleized colored clays, design
and construction of patterned
colored clay loaves for making
veneer, clay murini, colored clay
marquetry, application of colored
clay sprigging, and layered colored
clays and much more. Cost $ 250
plus $ 130 for materials
(plus/minus)

Workshop two: Ancient Clay.
July 2428, (all day). Offered at
Ferndale, Wa State, USA. (very
close to the Canadian border,
northeast of Bellimgham.) Cost:
# 300 plus clay

This workshop is designed to give
beginning and experienced clay
workers the opportunity to inves-
tigate the techniques and aesthet-
ics of ancient and tribal ceramics.
We will focus on simple vessel
construction using pinch and coil
methods, exploring the broad
diversity of handbuilding form
and the range of decorative effects
possible without the use of glazes.
Slide shows will explore high
points in the history of ancient
and tribal clay If interested, please
contact Santo Mignosa at : 604
924 1311 or santom@ telus.net

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what the talk is all about!

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July/August 2006

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