Ronan Peterson - "Scratching the Surface" Demonstration Workshop

Ronan Peterson - "Scratching the Surface"
Demonstration Workshop
Don't miss this great workshop by our October 2013 exhibition artist!

Saturday - Sunday, October 5th - 6th, 2013
10AM-4PM each day

Workshop Description:

This workshop will focus on enlivening the surface of your ceramic vessels through slipping, sgraffito, champleve, inlay, slip trailing, terra sigillata, resist patterning, glaze layering, and utilizing atmospheric effects in electric kilns. Instruction will focus on working in cone 6 electric kiln firings, but techniques and information can be applied to all temperatures and types of kiln firings. The first part of this workshop will focus on making some simple vessel forms to try out different demonstrated surface embellishments. Functional and sculptural ceramicists alike will benefit from demonstrations and discussions intent on activating the ceramic surface. Participants should bring 5-6 of their own pots to work on - either leatherhard or bone dry (cone 5-6 clay.) Workshop attendees will also receive a packet of slip, terra sigallatta, and glazes recipes for use in their home studios.

Recommended for students who can center 2+ pounds of clay or who can comfortably handbuild ceramic forms. However, this workshop focuses on decorative techniques - students will not be on the wheel during class time.

Location: Lone Star College North Harris
2700 W.Thorne Drive, Room FA110
Houston, Texas 77073
Main #: (281) 618-5400 Ceramics studio & office #: (281) 618-5609

Cost: $225

Cancellation Policy:
Cancel before 9/1/13: $35 processing fee
Cancel after 9/1/13: no refund

Please make your check out to 18 Hands Gallery and mail to 249-B W. 19th Street, Houston, TX 77008. If you would like to pay by credit card, please call the Gallery at 713-869-3099.

Hill Country Arts Foundation Clay Workshop

Hill Country Arts Foundation 120 Point theatre rd. s., Ingram, Tx http://www.hcaf.com/

Co-op Proposal in San Antonio

At our last meeting, we were presented with the idea of creating a ceramics coop in San Antonio. This is a ground breaking idea for potters who wish to work, but do not have a studio of their own. The opportunities for individual artists and the guild is limitless. Here is the link for the proposal. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0_Rr4VNf6HdY1FfWE9WZ0NqbTQ/edit?usp=sharing. Please look it over. If you are interested in the Co-op, contact etsysalvage@gmail.com.

If you are unable to reach the above link, try  http://sanantoniopottersguild.com/forms/Coop%20proposal.pdf.

“Six Degrees of Separation in the Ceramics World” By Kevin Van Winkle

The purpose of “Six Degrees of Separation in the Ceramics World” is to provide an educational activity for all San Antonio Potters Guild members to participate in. You can trace your clay “roots” and see how you connect to others on a large scale map which may peak your interest to research people on the map you are not familiar with.

“Six Degrees of Separation” is the theory that everyone and everything is six or fewer steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person in the world, so that a chain of “a friend of a friend” statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps.

The game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” was invented as a play on the concept. The goal is to link any actor to Kevin Bacon through no more than six connections, where two actors are connected if they have appeared in a movie or commercial together.

Facebook's data team released two papers in November 2011 which document that amongst all Facebook users at the time of research (721 million users with 69 billion friendship links) there is an average distance of 4.74.

Here’s how to play:

Step 1. Create your connection list.

Your first connection must be someone you studied with, as the ceramics class instructor or ceramics workshop leader.

Your subsequent connections (2-6) should be someone the previously named person studied or was affiliated with.

You can send as many lists as you want as long as your first connection is a different person from your previous list. (Example: You took a class from Dennis Smith and a class from Ryan Takaba, so, you can submit two lists.)

Step 2. E-mail your list to van_wink@swbell.net 

(See list example below.)

I will add you to the “Six Degrees of Separation in the Ceramics World Map” and “the map” will be available for viewing at the monthly SAPG meetings.

Here is an example of one of my lists and how a list should look when e-mailed to me:

Kevin Van Winkle, studied with:

1.       Karl Borgeson,

2.       Warren MacKenzie

3.       Bernard Leach

4.       Shoji Hamada

5.       Itaya Hazan

You don’t have to have six on your list but if you only have one or two, you should research further.