Drawn
to the Surface
Instructors: Akio Takamori and Kurt Weiser
June 16-27, 2008
During this twelve day workshop, we will explore
the layering of drawings on the surface of porcelain clay with
colors of under-glazes, cobalt blue and china paint over-glazes.
We will start as a group by producing as many small cups as
possible using both throwing and handbuilding techniques. We
will then use these cups as canvases for experimentation with
a variety of drawing and painting techniques.
Each student will make enough cups so that each
cup will not feel too precious to play with or take chances
on. All cups will be bisqued, glazed with a clear glaze, and
then fired to cone 5-6 oxidation.
Play and experimentation will continue as students explore process of layering
and multifiring the cups, using over glazes and china paints. Our goal is that
by the end of the workshop, each student will have many small experimental
cups with layered drawings to observe for future reference.
During the cooling of the kilns, Akio and Kurt
will conduct slides lectures covering the history of their
work and influences as well as ideas about image and process.
The participants are encouraged to bring drawings, photographs
and ideas to incorporate into their work
This workshop is open to artists at any skill level |
Akio Takamori
Kurt Weiser, Night Harvest
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 Akio
TAKAMORI was born in Nobeoka, Kyushu Island, Japan in 1950.
He attended Musashino Art College, Tokyo, Japan, and apprenticed
at a traditional domestic production pottery in Koishiwara,
Japan. Takamori moved to the United States in 1974 to enroll
in the Kansas City Art Institute where he earned a BFA degree
in ceramics. He received his MFA from the New York State
College of Ceramics at Alfred University. Takamori has been
an Associate Professor of Art in Ceramics at the University
of Washington since 1993. He lives in Seattle, Washington
where he maintains a studio
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 Kurt WEISER was born in Lansing, Michigan
in 1950. He studied at the Kansas City Art Institute where
he earned his B.F.A., and the University of Michigan, where
he was granted his M.F.A. He was the Director of the Archie
Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in Helena, Montana from
1977 until 1989 when he began teaching at Arizona State University,
where he is now a Regents Professor.
He has twice received a fellowship from the National Endowment
for the Arts and has work published in over 35 books on the
subject of art and ceramics and has lectured in Europe, Asia
and North America. Weiser
has exhibited extensively since 1982 with the Garth Clark
Gallery in New York, NY, Los Angeles, CA. and Kansas City,
MO., as well as the Frank Lloyd Gallery in Santa Monica,
CA. His Work is in many collections including: the Victoria and
Albert Museum, London, England; the Los Angeles County Museum
of Art, Los Angeles, CA.; the Museum of Contemporary Ceramics,
Shigaraki, Japan; the Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Pittsburg,
PA.; the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington D.C.; the National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan;
and the Helsinki Museum of Applied Arts, Helsinki, Finland.
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