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Colored Clay: Layers Revealed – Virtual Workshop

By naomilin on September 28, 2021 in

When:

November 13, 2021 @ 12:30 pm – 5:00 pm

2021-11-13T12:30:00-05:00

2021-11-13T17:00:00-05:00

Where:

on Zoom
Zoom link will be given after registration

Cost:

$75.00 US Dollars

Contact:

Craft at the Edge

(709) 753-2749

Colored Clay: Layers Revealed

2-Day Workshop (November 13 & November 20)

Sponsored by Newfoundland, Canada based Craft At The Edge: A Handmade Future

Price: $75 US dollars $90 Canadian dollars

MATERIALS NOT INCLUDED. Material list and list of suppliers provided by the instructor.

Natural objects with patterned imagery surround us in the environment. You may have some objects that you have collected or you can seek some out at the ocean, the mountains or in your own backyard. These will provide inspiration for making pieces from layered, colored clay. It is an exceptional medium for expressing the beauty of fluid movement, the effects of water and wind that transform shells, rock and wood. You will be guided through wedging stains into porcelain and layering the different colors into a block. By slicing, carving, rolling and pinching, multi-dimensional effects are revealed. The colored clay integrates the designs with functional or sculptural forms, connecting hand with water and earth. Prior experience working with clay is needed. To complete pieces you will need access to a kiln.

Vermont Crafts Council Open Studio Tour

Dialogue: Lindenfeld + Lindenfeld

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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.