2024 Summer Arts Workshops
Registration opens January 22 at 10:00 a.m. PST. We look forward to creating with you in Tahoe!
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The Ergonomic Pouring Pot with Lorna Meaden, July 8-12
Study the ergonomic aspects of pouring pots, from simple ewers to elegant pitchers, teapots, and coffee pots. Diving into the world of utilitarian pottery, we will focus on fluidity of form and function. Demonstrations will include throwing on the wheel, pulling handles, throwing and hand-building spouts, and inlay line decoration, concluding with a cone 10 soda firing. Open to all skill levels.
About the artist
Lorna Meaden has lived in Durango off and on for almost 30 years. Having originally moved to town to go to Fort Lewis College, she has had many adventures in the local art scene along with intermittent moves to other places for education, artist residencies, and as much international travel as possible.
She has had multiple local studio spaces including her current home studio on the north end of town. She opened and ran the Durango Clay Center in the late 90s-early 2000s. She received her MFA in ceramics from Ohio University in 2005. She has completed several artist residencies in the West. She has been visiting faculty at San Juan College in Farmington, Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, and Fort Lewis College in Durango. Some of what she has considers her most fulfilling work has been teaching and learning abroad including time spent in Jamaica, Nicaragua, Nepal, Italy, and most recently Bali, Indonesia.
Lorna is currently a full-time studio potter in Durango.
Cost: $750 + $50 Material Fee