All levels welcome
This class will concentrate on combining hand building techniques to construct sculptural pottery forms. Enjoying working with clay will be our central focus in making forms in innovative ways. We will do a glazing intermission in the center day of the course where I will demonstrate my glazing technique and participants will have a chance to try their hand glazing on tiles that we will make at the very onset. Students will be introduced to classic “feeling” forms as well as going farther into more sculptural vessel forms that take into consideration abstraction and tension. Relationships to space, volume, and activated form will be emphasized.
Donna Polseno is a studio ceramic artist living in the mountains of Virginia, as well as in Liguria, Italy. She has maintained two parallel careers in decorative/functional pottery as well as sculpture, which has an emphasis on the figure and “still life”. She is the recipient of two NEA Fellowships. Her work has been shown in various museums and galleries both nationally and internationally. The most recent comprehensive exhibition of her pottery and sculpture was at the Huntington Museum, WV. Donna has taught at many schools including Haystack, Anderson Ranch, Penland School, and La Meridiana in Italy. Donna has been a visiting artist/teacher twice at Jingdezhen University in China. She taught part time for many years at Hollins University, where she created the annual symposium “Women Working With Clay” which she continues to help organize as the Founding Director.
Fee: $655 (Course Fee: $550 + Lab Fee: $65 [includes first bag of clay] + Non-Refundable Registration Fee: $40