MASTERCLASS WORKSHOPS
Masterclasses are workshops featuring the techniques and practices of working artists in the ceramic field.
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PAST WORKSHOPS
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Clemente McKay has developed in ceramics and sound art, disciplines that converge in different ways in his projects which draw on ancestral knowledge, specifically from the Andean territory, exploring new trends from the intersection of times and spaces, from a contemporary, decolonial perspective that is critical of the prevailing model. He has learned the craft of ceramics in a self-taught manner, and with different teachers in Peru, Chile, the United States and Italy. In 2020, he founded the Kachalote Crafts Laboratory in the Ñuble region in Chile, a community space where he developed the exhibition Relatos del Pachakuti, which was exhibited at the Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art in 2022 and in 3 museums in Peru during 2023. He also plays his sound creations in the band Mapochoe, which explores World Music aesthetics and investigates unofficial stories from the ancestral past of the Andean territory.
ANCIENT SOUNDS
WITH CLEMENTE MCKAY
Saturday, October 19th, 2024
9AM-5PM (with lunch break)
Join us on this one-day handbuilding workshop with Clemente McKay, an artist from Chile, who explores his Andean identity through clay and its sound possibilities, which ancient cultures from the Andes have explored for around 4,000 years. On this journey, we will understand and learn how to add sound to our sculptures by adding this ancient sound technology that has spread through the Andes for thousands of years. So, go ahead and start thinking about the animal that inspires you, or that blooms from your imagination. In this workshop you will give it a shape and then a voice, a sound, a melody, even a song!
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Alleghany Meadows is a studio potter and creative entrepreneur in Carbondale, CO. He earned his BA from Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, and MFA from Alfred University in NY. A potter for more than 30 years, Alleghany was an artist in residence at Anderson Ranch, studied in Japan with Takashi Nakazato, and worked for a year with potters in Nepal on a Watson Fellowship. He exhibits and teaches workshops nationally and internationally, and his work is in numerous museums, public collections, family dining tables and individual cupboards. He is the founder of Artstream Nomadic Gallery and co-founder of Studio for Arts + Works, FARM, Harvey Meadows Gallery, and served on the board of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.
UTILITARIAN POTTERY: CONNECTION & COMMUNICATION
WITH ALLEGHANY MEADOWS
Saturday May 18th & Sunday May 19th, 2024
9AM - 5PM (with lunch break)
Opportunities for personal expression are limitless, like how a handle conveys a maker’s view of the world through form, surface, volume, rhythm and action. Some forms to be explored include cups, bowls, plates and pitchers.
This two day intermediate/advanced workshop will combine demonstrations, image presentations, group discussions and hands on making time. We will use porcelain clay. Alleghany will demonstrate a range of his approaches to making and thinking about utilitarian pottery.
After studying with Paul Soldner at Scripps College (BA 1973), Kris Cox spent 1974-75 at Anderson Ranch on one of the first teams to get the ceramics studio up and running.
Following an MFA in ceramics (1977) from RISD, he subsequently taught in the ceramics programs at San Diego State, Laguna College of Art, and USC (with Ken Price).
EXPLORING CERAMIC TECHNIQUES
WITH KRIS COX
Saturday February 24th & Sunday February 25th, 2024
9AM - 6PM (with lunch break)
+ Optional Raku Firing: Friday March 15th
In this workshop, Valley-based artist Kris Cox will share handbuilding and wheel throwing techniques that may lead to new approaches that participants will incorporate into their work, finding inspiration for both sculptural and/or utilitarian pieces. Students will have the opportunity to work with porcelain and explore forms off the wheel including extrusions, coils, and hollow forms.
A Raku firing for this workshop will take place on Friday, March 15th, followed by a reception at Kris Cox’s studio.
ENROLLMENT POLICY
Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. A student will only be registered for a class upon receipt of tuition payment in full. We cannot guarantee placement into a class until payment is received. Materials and firing fees are included in the tuition.
CANCELLATION POLICY
To cancel a registration and receive a refund, you must notify the CCC at least 7 days before the start date of your class. We will refund your payment minus a 10% cancellation fee. No refunds will be issued for cancellations made less than 7 days before the start date of the class. In the event that the Clay Center is forced to cancel a class, a full refund will be issued.