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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Fast Fire Pottree with Randy Broadnax and Don Ellis, July 15-19
Demonstrating a wide variety of throwing, decorating, and firing techniques, Randy and Don will help you hone your pottery skills. This workshop will focus on fast-fired decorative processes including raku, copper matte luster, alcohol reduction, fuming with chlorides, horsehair, low-fire salt saggar firing, lichen glazes. This will be a hands-on workshop that will expand your throwing abilities while creating interesting new forms.
Please bring 10 pieces of bisqueware from home for more firing opportunities and experimentation, not to exceed 10 inches. Recommended clay - Cone 10 stoneware clay (i.e. example Soldate 60) or porcelain, 2/3rds of the pieces should be stoneware.
Cost: $750 + $50 Material Fee
Soda Fired Pottree with Randy Broadnax and Don Ellis, July 22-26
Randy and Don will demonstrate new techniques to produce special effects on sculptural and functional work using a high-fire soda kiln. Explore shape, form, and function while expanding your throwing abilities and creating interesting new forms. This workshop focuses on the cone 10 soda kiln, however there will be an opportunity to experiment with a few fast-fired decorative processes.
Please bring 10 pieces of bisque ware, not to exceed 10 inches, that are made from a Cone 10 stoneware clay (i.e. example Soldate 60) or porcelain, 2/3rds of the pieces should be stoneware as the class will fire the salt and raku kilns.
Cost: $750 + $50 Material Fee
About the artist
Don and Randy are two of the most respected and entertaining ceramic instructors working today. They have incredible energy and passion in their teaching and all with amazing humor that reaches students on many different levels.
Don Ellis: Currently a professor and a Fine Arts Department Chair at San Juan College in Farmington, New Mexico and has been a Ceramics educator since 1986. He is known as a master of Raku and copper matte glazes and has spent over 20 years mastering his special techniques. His work is featured in Alternative Kilns and Firing and Mastering Raku.
Randy Brodnax: A dedicated teacher and storyteller, Brodnax is known to cook up a mean gumbo and an entertaining yarn while making beautiful pots. A master Raku potter for more than 50 years, he has been featured in countless books and magazines and has given hundreds of workshops.
