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Workshop: Folded Slabs with Layered Slip Decoration

By naomilin on May 26, 2022 in

When:

July 23, 2022 @ 9:00 am – July 24, 2022 @ 12:00 pm

2022-07-23T09:00:00-04:00

2022-07-24T12:00:00-04:00

Where:

Wheelhouse Clay Center
48 Harmony Place Brattleboro
Vermont 05301

Cost:

$140 plus $20-$40 for clay.

Contact:

Shari Zabriski

802-490-2693

Weekend Workshop:

Folded Slabs with Layered Slip Decoration

With Naomi Lindenfeld

Wheelhouse Clay Center, Brattleboro, Vermont

Saturday and Sunday July 23rd & 24th, 2022 9am – Noon each day

Creating surfaces with layered, colored slips will be explored in this workshop. Combing, texturing and printing with them can produce a sense of depth and intrigue. We will make paper templates as a useful tool for envisioning how a flat slab of clay can be folded into a three-dimensional form. A clay slab is rolled out and cut into the shape of the template. Before the folding and construction takes place, the pigmented slips will be layered and patterned to add surface decoration. Tips and tricks will be shown for folding, attaching and treating seams, edges and corners.

$140 plus $40 for clay and an additional $10 if instruction in glazing is needed or if you would like me to glaze your pieces.

This is a departure from my usual colored clay methods but related in its colorful, gestural effects.

Register with me through my contact page on this website.

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EVENTS

Artist Statement

I grew up with my mother's loom in our family's living room. Not many years later I ended up with clay carving tools and a rolling pin in my own ceramics studio. The pairings of work in this show exemplify the influences of my mother's work on me and have served as an opportunity to both grow creatively and to honor my mother and her life's work.

Lore Kadden Lindenfeld (1921 - 2010) emigrated from Germany to the U.S. in the late 1930s. She attended Black Mountain College in North Carolina in the 1940s and was a student of both Josef and Anni Albers. Inspired by the Alberses and the Bauhaus school tradition, she worked as a textile designer for the New York fashion industry followed by a career as a weaver, fiber collage artist and as a weaving and art history teacher on the college level.

I grew up hearing riveting stories of Black Mountain College, its avant-garde, experimental environment and brilliant, unique personalities. As well, I was exposed to many artists and craftspeople during my childhood and took my first pottery class with a friend of my mother's. I responded to the immediacy of clay more than what appeared to be the tedium of threading warps on a loom.

While working on a degree in ceramics from Boston University's Program in Artisanry, I discovered the Japanese technique, Nerikomi, of layering colored clays to create patterns. I have been captivated by exploring many ways of working with colored clay ever since. I have also come to realize that my method of working with clay - the sense of movement, abstract graphic quality, nature-themed imagery and vivid color - echoes my mother's textiles. In designing work for this show, I was first more drawn to my mother's fiber collage work than her weavings, as a closer match for my own techniques and sensibilities. I later saw that the way I carve into the layers in two directions appear as woven fabric.

It was both fascinating and challenging to interpret a two-dimensional medium within a three-dimensional realm; to not just reproduce my mother's ideas and imagery but to draw inspiration and design the pieces as my own. My hope is that my ceramics, while paying homage to my mother, stand on their own just as her fiber works do.