Workshop for Potters and Clay Artists
Tesselating with Tiles
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Experience Level: No experience necessary!
Learn how to carve and to replicate one tile that tessellates into a larger design. You will also learn tips for making your own inexpensive tile-making tools and techniques for minimizing warping, for displaying and using your tiles, and more.
Instructor, Theresa Mustafa, has over 13 years experience making tiles, murals, and mosaics for customers throughout the US. www.theresamustafa.com
Participants will learn to make their own tools, get glazing tips, use a handmade tile press and will result in a 6 to 9 tile tessellated design. Fees include all materials & Firing Fees.
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Dates: 1/25 10am-4pm
Location: More Montclair Mud (Upper Montclair)
Cost: $245 per artist
Members receive a $50 discount
Whistles
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Experience Level: no experience necessary!
Learn how to make 3 working clay whistles with Tim Kelley. Firing Fees included.
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Dates: 2/8 1pm-4pm
Location: Mendham Mud
Cost: $110 per artist
Members receive a $20 discount
Cylinder Bootcamp
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Experience Level: MUST KNOW BASIC STEPS OF THROWING A POT! (You don’t have to be good at those steps.) This is not a “from scratch” class! We will be timing and challenging ourselves.
The cylinder is the basic skill for most forms we create. We are often too quick to jump ahead without teaching our body and brain how to make the perfect cylinder. Sign up for this cylinder intensive. Attempt to throw 8 to 10 PERFECT cylinders…(yeah right).
You will get to keep 4 cylinders. Subsequent pots would be 6 cents/cubic inch for members or 10-18 cents/ cubic inch for non members, (depending on which glaze you use.) -
Cost: $80 per artist
Members receive a $20 discountClick Here to Register For Madison
Dates: 2/22 12:30pm-4pm
Location: Madison MudClick Here to Register For Mendham
Dates: 3/8 12:30pm-4pm
Location: Mendham Mud
Click Here to Register For MORE Montclair
Dates: 4/19 12:30pm-4pm
Location: MORE Montclair Mud (Upper Montclair)
Screen Printing
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Experience Level: Must be able to provide 3 bisqued handbuilding or wheel pieces to work on.
In this workshop, students will learn the basics of screen printing onto clay. Corrine Carr will demonstrate how to prepare & burn a screen, although it must be done in the dark, so this part will not be hands on. Artists will choose from provided screens to print on 3 of their bisqued pieces. Pots must be no larger than 6 x 5 inches.
Firing Fees not included.
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Dates: 3/1 1pm-3:30pm
Location: Montclair Mud (Bloomfield Ave)
Cost: $125 per artist
Members receive a $25 discount
Kintsugi
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Experience Level: No experience necessary!
The Japanese art of repairing broken pottery. If a bowl is broken, rather than discarding the pieces, the fragments are put back and the cracks are adorned with gold. Guest Instructor Tara DeLuca will lead you in connecting with a bowl (provided by us ), breaking it, confronting the damage and taking ownership of the pieces that remain by glueing them back together.
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Dates: 3/28 1pm-3:30pm
Location: Montclair Mud (Bloomfield Ave)
Cost: $120 per artist
Members receive a $25 discount
Nerikomi
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Experience Level: No experience necessary!
Nerikomi is a decorative process established in Japan that involves stacking colored clay and then slicing through the cross section to reveal a pattern. Nerikomi designs provide a wonderful way to work three dimensionally with patterns and images, or they can become the walls to hand built pots.
During this workshop, Tina Burk will guide you in creating a unique pattern and then applying it to a masterpiece. Firing Fees included.
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Dates: 3/22 10am-5pm
Location: Madison Mud
Cost: $150 per artist
Members receive a $25 discount
Cone 6 with John Britt
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Experience Level: No experience necessary!
This three-day workshop will be a general overview of ceramic glazes, focusing on but not limited to cone 6 glazes. It is designed for the continuing beginner to intermediate ceramic artists.Glaze chemistry doesn’t have to be that scary! John will guide us through glaze formulation, the mixing process, calculations and educate us the properties of the ingredients.
As a group we will mixed color blends on three different clay bodies to create a library of ideas!
We will discuss cones, kilns, firing dynamics, and principles as well as how to apply those principles to various firing cycles. We are chasing color!
We will discuss how glazes work, how to adjust your glazes, and how to find new ones.
The workshop fee includes three days of instruction, raw materials for glazes, bisque-fired test tiles that you will get to keep, and the firings of these test tiles in the workshop.
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Dates:
4/10 9am-4pm
4/11 9am-4pm
4/12 9am-3pmLocation: Montclair Mud (Bloomfield Ave)
Cost: $550 per artist
Members receive a $75 discount
Cracked Pots
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Experience Level: Must be able to throw a small cylinder on the wheel without assistance!
Have you seen all those cool pots that look like archeological finds? Those are what we call cracked pots! In this Sodium Silicate Workshop, you will learn several methods to get this cool effect. Workshop includes 8 oz sodium silicate, and firing fees for up to 4 medium sized pots. (After that firing fees are 6 cents/cubic inch members, 10-18 cents/cubic inch non members, depending on which glaze you use.)
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Dates: 4/4 1pm-3:30pm
Location: Montclair Mud (Bloomfield Ave)
Cost: $120 per artist
Members receive a $20 discount
Free Workshops for Current Members
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Glaze Workshop
Madison 2/1 1-3pmClay Critique
Madison 2/15, 3/15, or 4/26 1-2:30pm
Montclair 2/6, 3/6, or 4/24 10-11:30am -