This intensive workshop focuses on refining techniques and learning new possibilities with utilitarian pots. Guest Chef Barclay Dodge discusses presentation, creative decision making and seasonal influences. Studio work and firings culminate in a multi-course meal at his acclaimed Aspen restaurant, Bosq.
“Experimenting with Form”
Workshop Doug Casebeer and Alleghany Meadows
January 11 to 24, 2020
In this workshop, Doug and Alleghany will be sharing their passion about making pots, exploring ideas of shapes and function, making pottery for everyday use.
Both instructors have a strong aesthetic and approach to working in clay, and value the recording of moments of beauty and touch in their own work from where the participants can learn.
At Curaumilla, they will continue their exploration of ideas around function, and the creation of new forms through experimentation and play.
They invite you to explore the limitless possibilities involved when working in clay, where pots have a personality of their own. Students will learn to find their own voice in pottery.
In this workshop students will be working both on the potters wheel and hand building, with stoneware, and firing the wood and soda kilns.
Date: Aug 26 - 30, 2019
Skill Level(s): open to all i
Instructor(s): Sam Harvey & Alleghany Meadows
Focus on hand-building and wheel-throwing approaches to pottery forms. Each day a new form is introduced. Forms to consider include: cups, bowls, plates, vases and lidded jars. Using earthenware clay and slips, work through concepts presented in daily demonstrations. Focus on skill-building and personal expression in the wet clay stages of making. The week culminates with bisque firings.
Earthenware clay is used with leather-hard application slips. Wheel throwing, coil building and slab building techniques are demonstrated daily for each form to be explored. Work is bisque fired for students to take home.
There are demonstrations with slideshows about contemporary and historic ceramics and plenty of one-on-one instruction.
June 14–July 28, 2018
Join us as we celebrate the Bray for the 22nd annual Bray Benefit Auction and "Alice in Wonderland" Brickyard Bash on Saturday, July 28, beginning at 6 pm.
The Bray Benefit Auction—including Cup, Silent and Live Auctions—showcases work from more than 97 ceramic artists. Beginning on June 11, all auction items will go on display in conjunction with the opening reception for the 2018 Resident Artists Exhibition; bidding on the cup and silent auction items will begin the same day.
The Silent and Cup Auction bidding will conclude along with the Live Auction and Brickyard Bash on Saturday, July 28 beginning at 6 pm.
From mid-June to mid-October spend your Saturday mornings at the Aspen Farmer's Market. Since 1998 it has been a local's tradition to stroll through the market buying Colorado grown produce and Colorado produced artisan products.
Open on Saturdays from 8:30am - 3pm the market offers Colorado grown fruits, vegetables, breads, meats, jams and more as well as a food court for lunch or a snack. Enjoy live music while you peruse the local jewelry, ceramics and art for sale.
*After Labor Day the Saturday Market hours change to 9am - 3pm.
The market makes a U-shape from the corner of Galena & Hopkins Ave to Hunter St & then again back to the intersection of Hyman & Galena.
Blurring the Line: Form, Function, Design
Opening Reception Thursday June 6, 6 – 9 p.m., Free and Open to the Public
This exhibition will include works that blur the distinction between function and form. The Main gallery will highlight furniture, ceramics, and lighting, while the Upper and Theatre galleries will highlight wearable items and jewelry. Check back for participating artists and more details!
Artstream Nomadic Gallery has been putting contemporary studio pottery on the street for 18 years. Based in Carbondale, CO, Artstream is a traveling exhibition space housed in a restored 1967 Airstream trailer. Since its debut tour, “North American Dishmakers”, in 2002, Artstream has exhibited work by more than 150 national, international, and emerging ceramic artists. It has made stops in over 100 locations across the country from New York City to Los Angeles, Houston to Minneapolis. Artstream works to educated and to place contemporary studio pottery into the hands and homes of the public.
March 26-30
NCECA Minneapolis, MN
April 1
University of Wisconsin, River Falls
Since 1970, the UGA Cortona Program, located in the rolling hills of Tuscany, Italy, has been a leader in education abroad.
It is the University of Georgia’s oldest study abroad program, calling the town of Cortona home for nearly 50 years.
Cortona has a rich ceramic tradition dating back to the time of the Etruscans, and there are several active clay mines in the vicinity. UGA Cortona Ceramics students therefore use local terra cotta clay for both hand-building and throwing. A basic majolica and low-temperature glaze coupled with slips, stains and terra sigillata provide a broad palette for glazing.
The ceramics studio consists of a long, vaulted room that is divided into sections for wheel throwing, hand building, and glaze storage and mixing.
The throwing area contains five electric wheels and one kick wheel; a nearby work space houses two additional kick wheels.
ARST 2500 - Introduction to Ceramics -Development of personal expression using the ceramic process.
ARST 3500 – Intermediate Ceramics - Sculptural and functional ceramic forms with an emphasis on personal expression and individual style.
ARST 4500 - Advanced Ceramics
The Artsream Nomadic Gallery has been putting contemporary studio pottery on the street for years. Based in carbondale, Colorado, and founded in 2002 by past Walter Gropius Master Artist Alleghany Meadows, the ARtstream has exhibited work by more than 125 national, international, and emerging ceramic artists. An exhibition featuring 26 artists, 13 of whom are past visiting artists at the museum, will be on display at the Huntington Museum of Art from February 2018 through May 2018
Come check out the Artstream and see what's new inside the Harvey/Meadows Gallery in downtown Aspen, Colorado every Saturday from 8:30am-3pm at 517 East Hopkins Ave.
http://www.aspenpitkin.com/departments/clerk/aspen-saturday-market/
Tuition $830 (includes $95 lab fee)
Maximum enrollment 15
Open to intermediate and advanced artists
This two-week intensive hands-on workshop will be an immersion into making, thinking and asking questions about utilitarian pottery. Using primarily the potter’s wheel, Michael Connelly and Alleghany Meadows will explore ideas and take students on a journey through various approaches to utilitarian forms and surfaces. They will conduct daily demonstrations, discussions and one-on-one instruction as well as present historical and contemporary examples. Participants will use the two weeks to evolve their personal strategies and aesthetics. Connelly and Meadows will also discuss topics such as sustaining a lively studio practice, social outreach as an artist and considerations when setting up a studio. Students will have the ability to work with both high-fire porcelain and stoneware and fire work in reduction and salt kilns.
Connelly and Meadows will give a public artist talk on Wednesday, June 21 at 7:30 pm in the Bray Resident Center
A survey of artwork by CMC Western Region’s faculty and staff.
