Ceramics Courses Summer 2009
4-week, 8-week, or 11-week term:
June 8 - August 23, 2009
Beginning
 Make Extraordinary Bowls
Tuesday evenings, 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
June 9, 16, 23 & 30, 4 sessions
Instructor: Pam Gorgone
Vases and Bottles
July 7, 14, 21 & 28, 4 sessions
Tuesday evenings, 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Instructor: Stephanie Young
Glazing and Surface Decorating
August 4, 11 & 18, 3 sessions
Tuesday evenings, 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Instructor: Stephanie Young
An introduction to making vessels on the potters' wheel and with hand-building.
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Beginning-Intermediate
 Basics and Challenges
Wednesday evenings, 6:30 - 9:30 pm
June 10 - July 29, 8 sessions
Instructor: Denny McLaughlin
Thursday evenings, 6:30 - 9:30 pm
July 2 - August 20, 8 sessions
Instructor: Wayne Fuerst
The construction, refinement, and glazing of wheel-thrown and hand-built forms will provide
beginners with a strong foundation. Creative approaches to altered and combined elements will
provide challenges for experienced students. (image: Greg Valiant'09 and Rachel Cohen'96)
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Beginning-Advanced
Design Principles For Tiles, Walls & Bowls
Thursday evenings, 6:30 - 9:30 pm
June 11, 18, 25 & July 2, 4 sessions
Instructor: Wasma'a Chorbachi
Discover the creative potential of design science using minimal mathematical concepts that
will enrich your art work and classroom. Explore the principle key examples of this knowledge as you
develop your projects through application on clay and marvel at the creative results.
Mosaics
Tuesday & Thursday mornings, 9:30 am - 12:30 pm
July 7, 9, 14, 16, 4 sessions
Instructor: Lisa Houck
This course will provide an in-depth experience with mosaic design, fabrication, and
mounting practices. In addition, the instructor will share her recent experiences with
large public and private art commissions for tile and mosaic projects. (image: Lisa Houck, "Yellow Warbler")
Sculpting and Sketching with Clay: Figure in the Landscape
Tuesday mornings, 9:30 am - 12:30 pm
July 21, 28, August 4 & 11, 4 sessions
Instructor: Allison Newsome
Students will learn how to sketch outdoors with clay, work from the live model, and create symbolic
figures in a personal landscape. Students will find that their work will take on new textures, forms and
dimensions as they are taught to approach clay with a new eye. A variety of hand building techniques will
be used including a once-fired glaze technique.
Allison Newsome addresses fundamental environmental connections with work that feels
rooted in the "Contact Period" between Native American and Europeans with a focus
on where the wilderness and agrarian meet.
(image: Allison Newsome, "Ojai Harvest", photo by Kim Faust)
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Intermediate-Advanced
 Let's put the fun in functional
Wednesday mornings, 9:30 am - 12:30 pm
June 10 - July 29, 8 sessions
Instructor: Delanie Wise
Let's put the fun in functional and enhance our own work with new ideas, techniques and
glaze combinations! We will throw our pots upside down, try the unexpected, and look for new inspiration.
(image: Delanie Wise, "Dancing Teapots")
Ornately Functional: Form & Surface
Monday afternoons, 1 - 4 pm
July 6, 13, 20, & 27, 4 sessions
Instructor: Kristen Kieffer
Demonstrations and studio projects will include throwing, altering and building off the wheel,
darting, slip-decorating, stamp-making and stamping. We will discuss aesthetics and proportion, timing,
idea-generation, and personal work development. (image: Kristen Kieffer, "Flower Vessels" (Corset series))
Gushers, Gurglers, and Burblers
Monday evenings, 6:30 - 9:30 pm
July 6 - August 17 plus a garden installation session, 8 sessions
Instructor: Forrest Synder
Zero to a fountain in 7 weeks flat. Coil, slab, drape and slump hand building techniques
will be used to build BIG and fast. The mysteries of pumps, plumbing, and water will be revealed.
Non-class time strongly encouraged.
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Independent Study
8-week and 11-week sessions only
Self-directed work, for those who have previously enrolled in a class at the Ceramics Program and
are capable of processing their own work; includes studio access and opportunities to participate
in firing workshops and attend introductory lectures by visiting artists.
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Master Classes & Workshops
*PDP (Professional Development Points) available for Art Educators.
Master Classes
Kusakabe Masakazu
"Smokeless and Efficient Wood-Fired Kilns"
design and construction with Kusakabe, Masakazu
Thursday, June 11, 2009, 1 - 3 pm; tea break 3 - 4 pm
free lecture
Thursday, June 11, 2009, 5 - 8 pm
$35 for participation in group and private consultations with Kusakabe about kiln
design and firing
I Am A Teabowl, a four-day workshop
June 9, 10, 16, 17, 1 - 4 pm
Hamada Tomo'o
Monday, June 15, 1 -4 pm
Regis Brodie
Efficient & Creative Kiln-Firing Practices
Monday, July 6, 3 - 5 pm
An Artist's Journey: Finding One's Way
Monday, July 6, 5:30 - 6:30 pm, free lecture; 6:30 pm reception
Firing Workshops
Saggar: Painting with Fire!
Pao-Fei Yang
June 16, July 7, 14, 15, & 16, 2009
Naked Raku: Drawing with Smoke and Fire!
Shawn Panepinto
July 22, August 5, 12 & 13, 2009
Raku: Playing with Fire!
Kathi Tighe
July 23 & 25, 2009
cone10 Soda:
Spray the Glaze through the Flames
Crystal Ribich
July 20, 21, 22 & 24, 2009
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