Workshops

Scheduled for 2013:
Roswell Museum & Art Center / Anderson Museum, Roswell, NM  March 2 – 3
NCECA, Houston, TX  March 21 – 22
Sonoran Desert Art Studios, Tucson, AZ  April 19 – 21
Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village (Lake Tahoe), NV  July 8 – 12
The Little Pottery Shop, Frederick, MD  August 16 – 18
Cape Cod Potters, Cape Cod, MA October 26 – 27

Scheduled for 2014:
Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT  May TBD
Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts, Hunter, NY  July 24 – 28

See the Schedule page for complete details and links to register.

    

Workshops can be customized for different venues: Art centers, Pottery studios, Guilds, Universities, and Colleges. Contact me for information, scheduling, and fees.

Example description for a multi-day, hands-on workshop:

Altered & Ornamented
Our workshop will focus on altering wheel-thrown (or hand-built) forms a little and a lot.  We will then embellish those forms with an array of decoration techniques from stamping and slip-trailing to sponging and resists.  The result can be functional or sculptural, minimal or extravagant.  Demonstrations include throwing, altering and building off the wheel, darting, slip-decorating, stamp-making and stamping. We will discuss aesthetics and proportion, timing in clay, idea-generation, and progressing one’s own work with learned techniques.  You will leave the workshop with a collection of new skills and the confidence to play and draw from your own influences, as well as take home a grouping of bisqued stamps and pieces showing your explorations for the week.

Workshops can be hands-on or lecture/demonstration only and typically include:

    • Slide presentation of Kristen’s work (past and current) plus influences
    • Demonstrations of various surface decoration techniques
    • Demonstrations of altering thrown forms and building
    • Discussions about timing, maintaining a sketch/idea book
      and idea-generation
    • Critiques and/or one-on-one discussions
    

I have given workshops and lectures at the following
since 2002 with the most recent listed first:

Roswell Museum & Art Center / Anderson Museum, Roswell, NM
Bracker’s Good Earth Clays, Lawrence, KS
Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts, Hunter, NY
The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Edinboro University, Edinboro, PA
Plinth Gallery, Denver, CO
Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN (2004 and 2011)
Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
Long Beach Island Foundation, Loveladies, NJ
MudFire, Decatur, GA
Wesleyan Potters, Middletown, CT
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS (2005 and 2010)
Porcelain II Conference, Potter’s Council, San Diego, CA
Waubonsee Community College, Sugar Grove, IL
Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
Appalachian Center for Crafts, Smithville, TN
Brooklyn Potters Guild, Brooklyn, NY
South County Art Association, Kingston, RI (2009 and 2010)
Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH
Wayne Center for the Arts, Wooster, OH
Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell, PA
Hartford Art School/University of Hartford, Hartford, CT (2002 and 2009)
The Ella Sharp Museum of Art & History, Jackson, MI
New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH
Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA
Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD
Montgomery College, Rockville, MD
Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY
Southwest School of Art & Craft, San Antonio, TX
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI
Armory Art Center of the Palm Beaches, West Palm Beach, FL
University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI
New Hampshire Potter’s Guild/Hofstra University, Hampton, NH
Peters Valley Craft Center, Layton, NJ
UMass Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA
Longwood University, Farmville, VA
Mud Flat Studio, Somerville, MA
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
FUSION: The Ontario Clay & Glass Association, Toronto
Potters and Pinetree Potters Guild, Toronto, Ontario
Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village, NV
Odyssey Center for Ceramic Arts, Asheville, NC
Union University, Jackson, TN
Hofstra University/Long Island Craft Guild, Hempstead, NY
Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA
Ceramic Supply Craft Education Center, Lodi, NJ
Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS
Emporia State University, Emporia, KS
Georgia State University, Atlanta,
92nd Street Y, New York, NY
Napa Valley College, Napa Valley, CA

* Images courtesy of Dave Thomas, MCCC workshop in PA and Mike Kuhn, Ella Sharp Museum workshop in MI, 2009.