Join us digitally for a series of ceramic surface design workshops from February 16 – 19, 2 – 4 pm (AST). You will discover new techniques, update and hone in your ceramics skills while following along with industry experts. Broadening your art practice or speed up your production by signing up today!

Feb. 16 Custom Bisque Molds & Stamp Making by Natalie Waddell

Feb. 17 Printing Techniques on Clay by Cathy Terepocki

Feb. 18 Historical Approaches to Narrative Imagery and the Majolica Technique by Lindsay Montgomery

Feb. 19 Sgraffito, Mishima, and Wax Resist Exploration by Sera Senakovicz

All Classes will be held on Zoom and will be recorded.

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Workshop Descriptions:

Feb. 16 Custom Bisque Molds & Stamp Making by Natalie Waddell

I’ll be showing you how I make and use Custom Bisque Molds & Stamps in my practice. They are a great way for anyone working in clay to easily make molds so that you can replicate your forms and customize them with textures that is unique to their own creative vision.

What you will learn:

- How to create bisque slump and hump molds, both on and off the wheel

- How to use your new molds to create forms

- How to create custom textures and surfaces

Feb. 17 Printing Techniques on Clay by Cathy Terepocki

This class will be an overview of several different methods of transferring print onto clay but will also expand into more abstract or painterly applications of some of the techniques.

The course will cover:

• commercial decals: traditional and contemporary applications of low-temperature, overglaze decals. This includes vintage decals, solid colour sheets, and metallics underglaze transfers (for transferring printed imagery or graphic pattern onto leather hard surfaces).

• plaster transfer: screen-printing, painting or other low-tech methods of decorating wet clay for slab buildings or hand-building laser printed decals- an efficient way to reproduce imagery without using silk-screens. These are applied over the glaze.

Feb. 18 Historical Approaches to Narrative Imagery and the Majolica Technique by Lindsay Montgomery

In the first 30 minutes of the workshop, I will present historical approaches to narrative imagery, and how I re-imagine the history and craft of Maiolica to create modern narratives and forms. We will follow this up with a 30-minute demonstration of the technique - going through how I generate imagery from historical sources and transfer drawings onto ceramic pieces and paint them with colour.

Feb. 19 Sgraffito, Mishima, and Wax Resist Exploration by Sera Senakovicz

We will work through a playful exploration of three ceramic decorating techniques: sgraffito, Mishima and wax resist. These techniques can be used by themselves or together to draw on clay and create unique, one-of-a-kind pieces. During the first part of the class, we will be going over each technique and a few tips and tricks I’ve learned in practice. The second part of the class will be for folks to coat, carve and draw into their own pots while also leaving time to ask questions at the end.

The Ceramics Surface Design Week Workshop Series has been made possible thanks to funding support from The Jean A. Chalmers Fund for the Crafts .