Event Schedule
You can register for the following workshops & events by contacting the listed venues.
If you don’t find one in your area, you can request a customized AMACO glaze workshop or in-service training by completing this Workshop Request Form.
For any further questions or comments please email: workshops@amaco.com
Decals, Soda Firing, and Pottery with Justin Rothshank
Penland School of Craft
Penland, NC United States
828.765.2359
Dates
- March 05, 2023 – April 28, 2023
This workshop will cover a variety of throwing/production techniques with earthenware and stoneware, and you will learn how to transfer your imagery onto ceramic work using decal, stamping, and layering techniques. We’ll cover image preparation, printing and transferring decals onto greenware and glazed pots, layering decals, commercial decals, and firing temperatures for various types of decals. We’ll fire all kinds of kilns, including wood, and we’ll specifically experiment with electric and soda kilns. We’ll talk about business for the studio potter, including daily production, marketing, and efficiency. All levels. Upper clay studio.
Studio artist; teaching: Touchstone (PA), Arrowmont (TN), Harvard Ceramics (MA), Baltimore Clayworks; co-founder of Union Project (Pittsburgh), Michiana Pottery Tour (Michigan, Indiana), and Indiana Clay Conference; collections: High Museum (Atlanta), Frick Museum (Pittsburgh), San Angelo Museum (TX); author of Low Fire Soda and Ceramic Decals: New Ideas and Techniques.
Slip / Soda / Surface with Kyle Carpenter
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
Gatlinburg, TN United States
www.arrowmont.org/workshops/slip-soda-surface-kyle-carpenter/
865) 436-5860
Dates
- June 25, 2023 – July 07, 2023
In this workshop students will discover the incredible range of surfaces achieved in the soda kiln. This class will focus on making functional pots, both wheel-thrown and slab built, and surface design. You will explore many decorating techniques such as rope impressions, underglaze painting, and flashing slip application. These techniques will be enhanced in the soda kiln at cone 10. Individual student growth will be the instructor’s goal of this class. Open to all skill levels.
ARTIST BIO
Kyle Carpenter is a potter who lives and operates his full-time studio in Asheville, North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville and received his BFA in 2000. In 2002, he built a salt-kiln and made a studio at his home. Carpenter exhibits work at studio tours, galleries, and museums across the United States. His new earthenware line came out of a personal need for change in his work. In the spring of 2020, the pandemic offered a new window of time to dedicate to this pursuit.
Can We Talk? Narrative and the Sgraffito Surface with Kath King
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
Gatilinburg, TN United States
arrowmont.org/workshops/sgraffito-surface-kathy-king/
(865) 436-5860
Dates
- July 30, 2023 – August 04, 2023
The technique of sgraffito has a long history in ceramics and is still a lively and popular technique today. In this workshop students will use the sgraffito technique to express personal narrative, identity, and humor to tell stories while collaborating with Mark Errol’s surface themed workshop. Sgraffito involves covering a clay surface with a contrasting slip or underglaze and carving through to reveal the clay color underneath. Class demonstrations include how the instructor uses this technique on a variety of forms made from press molds made in class (both plaster and clay) and utilizing slabs and/or coils to create surfaces for imagery application. Participants will discover how to transfer images, what tools to use, and how to finish the work with glaze, china paints, and lusters. Open to all skill levels.
ARTIST BIO
Kathryn King is a studio artist in the Boston area and instructor and director of the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard in Allston, Massachusetts and visiting faculty at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. She held positions at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence and the University of Massachusetts in Dartmouth, and was an associate professor at Georgia State University in Atlanta. She received her BA in studio art with a major in ceramics from Connecticut College, New London and an MFA from University of Florida in Gainesville. She gave workshops and lectures at over seventy-five colleges, schools and art centers throughout the U.S. Her work is found in numerous publications and periodicals including Ceramics: Art and Perception, Studio Potter and Ceramics Monthly.
Clay Pots And Color Spots with Mark Errol
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
Gatlinburg, TN United States
arrowmont.org/workshops/clay-pots-and-color-spots-mark-errol/
(865) 436-5860
Dates
- July 30, 2023 – August 04, 2023
In this workshop students will create forms using the wheel and/or hand building while learning ways to activate the surfaces through a variety of techniques. In collaboration with Kathy King’s workshop, you will discover two approaches to decoration and narratives. Participants will approach inlay, paper transfers, paper masking, and slip and underglaze layering and gain knowledge on how these decorating methods can join forces to bring high impact through low-tech methods. Ultimately, students will add complexity to their work with easy-to-learn and affordable techniques. Open to all skill levels.
ARTIST BIO
Mark Errol is a full-time lecturer at Valdosta State University in Georgia where he teaches ceramics and 3D Design and serves as interim gallery director for the Dedo Maranville Gallery. He graduated from Georgia State University in 2014 with an MFA and was the recipient of the Ernest G. Welch Fellowship. Erroll is co-owner of Plough Gallery in Tifton, Georgia where exceptional craft and fine art are showcased. His work investigates the relationships of architecture, interior design, and personal narratives while utilizing the surfaces of functional forms meant for domestic environments. He exhibits nationally and internationally.