PSAD Master Artists Workshops • Summer 2015

SUMMER 2015

MASTER ARTISTS WORKSHOPS Ceramics • Jewelry and Metals Paducah School of Art and Design West Kentucky Community and Technical College

Chris Baskin Fong Choo Jason Hess Victoria Lansford Tim Lazure Sharon Massey Lisa Naples Jen Townsend

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KENTUCKY COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM

the vision becomes a reality In March 2000, the City of Paducah launched its award winning Artist Relocation Program as a means of revitalizing its historic LowerTown neighborhood. This highly successful program has infused over thirty million dollars into the local economy while earning Paducah international recognition as a historic cultural destination and significantly enriching the cultural life of the region.

In August 2008, Paducah School of Art and Design (PSAD) was created through a collaborative effort between the city, West Kentucky Community & Technical College, and regional interests. PSAD has continued to grow and serve the region while anchoring the LowerTown Arts District through the creation of a serious school of art.

PSAD has since expanded its facilities and programs through the opening of two new buildings and the creation of its Master Artists Workshops program. The workshop program is housed in the 6,700-square-foot Ceramics and Small Metals Building, sited adjacent to its newly opened 7,000-square-foot sculpture building. The Master Artists Workshops program, college classes, and other community programs will expand again following the January 2016 opening of PSAD’s new 2-D and Graphic Design Building. This landmark 30,000-square-foot historic building will house PSAD’s programs in drawing, painting, photography, graphic design, and multimedia. All of PSAD’s programs are supported by state-of-the art studios and equipment.

With the launch of its Master Artists Workshops program last summer, PSAD positioned itself in a national context and set the stage for the years to come through an exciting selection of workshops in ceramics and metals that featured artists Susan Beecher, Jessica Calderwood, Harris Deller, Martha Grover, Doug Harling, Tova Lund, John Neely, and Craig Rhodes.

PSAD is proud to host its second workshop program in Summer 2015 with an equally impressive selection of experiences and presenters.

This year’s program once again focuses on ceramics and small metals, featuring intensive workshops with nationally recognized artists and experienced workshop presenters Chris Baskin, Sharon Massey, Jen Townsend, Jason Hess, Fong Choo, Victoria Lansford, Tim Lazure and Lisa Naples.

PSAD is a division of West Kentucky Community & Technical College, which has been recognized as an Aspen Prize Top 10 Community College each of the three years the Prize has been awarded.

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Chris Baskin

May 28-30 Soda Firing for Color, Content, Surface, and Substance

Chris Baskin

is a nationally recognized clay artist who makes ceramics for utilitarian, aesthetic, and contemplative purposes. Inspired by ceramic works and transformative processes since childhood, he creates objects embodying the mystery of ideas and values existing and manifesting in the material world. Chris completed a Master of Divinity degree in Louisville, Kentucky, and a Master of Fine Arts degree at Alfred University School of Art and Design in New York. He has served as a resort chaplain, mountain guide, and professor at Northern Arizona University and University of Louisville. He currently works and pursues his studio practice at Mudshark Studios in Portland, Oregon.

This three-day workshop focuses on forming and glazing for soda firing. Demonstrations and lectures will address accessing and developing visual images connected to personal ideas and interests. The first day will provide an overview of the soda firing glazing process and loading of the kiln.

Students should bring bisqueware for glazing, as well as sketchbooks or other image sources. On the second day, we will fire the soda kiln while Chris demonstrates his forming techniques. Day three will include additional demonstrations in the morning, unloading the kiln and discussion of the work in the afternoon.

Chris Baskin • May 28-30 • Tuition $290

Soda Firing for Color, Content, Surface, and Substance

Sharon Massey

May 28-30 Jewelry Fabrication in Steel

Sharon Massey

received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Winthrop University in 1999 and her Master of Fine Arts degree from East Carolina University in 2006. She lives near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is an assistant professor of jewelry and metals at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and serves on the board of directors of the Society of North American Goldsmiths. Her work has been included in exhibitions in Germany, Italy, Spain, and Japan. Images of Sharon’s jewelry have been published in seven books, including The Art of Enameling and Art Jewelry Today 2nd and 3rd Editions. Sharon’s work is included in the collections of the Racine Art Museum in Racine, Wisconsin, and the Victoria

In this three-day workshop, students will learn small-scale fabrication techniques to create jewelry using mild steel sheet and wire. With properties different from traditional non-ferrous metals used in jewelry, steel offers an affordable alternative for experimentation in jewelry making. Forming, etching, soldering, pickling, and finishing techniques will be demonstrated with an emphasis on finding personal direction and unique designs.

Sharon Massey • May 28-30 • Tuition $290 • materials and supplies additional Jewelry Fabrication in Steel

Jason Hess

June 2-6 Wood Firing and Making Work for Atmospheric Kilns

Jason Hess is a professor of art and head of the ceramics program at Northern Arizona University. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Beloit College and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Utah State University.

Jason has exhibited his work in over 100 exhibitions at galleries, universities, and art centers across the nation and internationally during the past 10 years. His artwork is featured in the collections of The Renwick Gallery of The Smithsonian Institute and The Martin Museum of Art at Baylor University.

Jason has participated in artist residencies at The Archie Bray Foundation, Red Lodge Clay Center, and The Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, China.

His work is made from a variety of clay materials, which are then fired (generally without an applied glaze) in a wood-burning kiln.

In this five-day hands-on workshop, students will explore glazing and apply a variety of slips to bisqueware, then load and fire a Manabigama wood-burning kiln.

Placement within the kiln, stacking, and loading techniques will be discussed in detail. Each student will gain experience firing the kiln and participate in this exciting ceramic process. While the kiln cools, the group will discuss making pots for different areas of the kiln and clay body formulation. There will be two days of demonstrations by the instructor and an evening lecture about his art and working philosophy.

Jason Hess • June 2-6 • Tuition $490 Wood Firing and Making Work for Atmospheric Kilns

Jen Townsend

June 2-6 Casting Without Equipment

Jen Townsend attended Rochester Institute of

Technology’s School for American Crafts, where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in jewelry and metalsmithing. She broadened her undergraduate experience by studying for a year in Florence, Italy, where she studied classical goldsmithing techniques.

She later attended Southern Illinois University, where she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree. Jen has taught classes or workshops at Penland School of Crafts, Arrowmont, Millersville University, East Carolina University, Appalachian Center for Crafts, and Dartmouth College, to name a few.

Her work can be seen in 500 Gemstone Jewels, American Artist, and Art Jewelry Today 2. She has exhibited extensively, including a 2007 exhibition at The Orkney Museum in Scotland.

Lost wax casting is an ancient process, but is still a staple of the jewelry industry today. In lost wax casting, wax models are transformed into metal. This class teaches you how to create a wax model and work with a casting house to turn your wax model into a finished metal product. This workshop is for people interested in using cast elements in their work, but don’t have their own casting equipment.

We will work on wax carving and discuss everything from finding a caster to finishing the metal casting. Casting houses are common and offer terrific services for professionals and hobbyists alike. This class is fun and informative for every skill level.

Jen Townsend • June 2-6 • Tuition $490 Casting Without Equipment

Fong Choo

June 26-27 Demystifying Form: Clay Play and the Teapot

Fong Choo is an internationally recognized artist and workshop presenter. His most recent workshop was hosted by the Gaya Ceramic Center in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia.

He was also a presenter in London at the Fusion Clay Conference. This summer Fong has once again been invited to teach at Gaya Ceramics in Bali. He is currently working on a number of patron-commissioned pieces and is especially renowned for his skills making teapots.

His work has received numerous awards at The Smithsonian Craft Show, The Philadelphia Museum of Art and The American Craft Exposition. He is an adjunct faculty member at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky, and remains committed to a life as a practicing studio potter.

The teapot is arguably one of the most challenging and intriguing forms in clay.

Fong will demonstrate the hand building and wheel thrown work required to explore the teapot form, with an emphasis on “play,” along with ways to use cane and reed in handle assemblages and how the many facets of the teapot can be aggregated into an aesthetically pleasing whole. There will also be demonstrations with simple homemade tools to use on the teapots, along with unique gadgets and ‘doo dads’ designed for use in your studio.

Fong Choo • June 26-27 • Tuition $190 Demystifying Form: Clay Play and the Teapot

Victoria Lansford

July 17-18 Russian Filigree

Victoria Lansford

has generated an international revival of ancient and nearly lost metalsmithing techniques through her artwork, publications, workshops, and passion for creating. Her award winning artwork has appeared in the Museum of Contemporary Craft, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Wayne Arts Center, the Mulvane Art Museum, The von Liebig Art Center, Houston Center for Contemporary Crafts, and Rochester Institute of Technology, among other venues, and in numerous books and magazines, including the Lark 500 series, Metalsmith, and on Home & Garden Television. She created the metals program and served as head of the Metalsmithing Department at Spruill Center for the Arts, Atlanta, and was an adjunct professor at the University of Tennessee.

Learn the secret of Russian (“open back”) filigree through extensive demonstrations and hands-on exploration. Participants will create a pendant and a finger ring while learning the necessary steps and tricks to ensure success and fun through this exquisite technique. Also included will be discussion and demonstration of more three-dimensional possibilities, such as the traditional bead form and Victoria’s contemporary sculptural jewelry and objects. Those familiar with the technique through Victoria’s Russian Filigree DVD will have the opportunity to work on more advanced projects. Participants must know how to solder with a torch.

Victoria Lansford • July 17-18 • Tuition $190 • materials and supplies are additional

Russian Filigree

Tim Lazure

August 6-8

Ring 360°

Tim Lazure

is an associate professor in the Metals Design Program at East Carolina University. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Rochester Institute of Technology’s School for American Crafts and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. His work is in the collections of the Mint Museum of Craft and Design, and the Gallery of Art and Design in Raleigh, North Carolina. Images of his work have been published in 1000 Rings, 500 Brooches, The Art of Enameling, and The Craft of Silversmithing (Lark Books). Tim’s jewelry, silversmithing, and furniture work have regularly been featured in national and international exhibitions.

Adorning the finger has been a tradition for ages. Rings are loaded with historical meaning. They can symbolize love, embody authority or status, and portray accomplishments or affiliations. They can be understated or fancifully flamboyant.

This class will explore jewelry design, fabrication, stone setting, and assembling techniques related to the ring concept.

Aesthetic value of jewelry comes from the artist’s imagination and execution rather than from the size of the stone or the value of the metal. Students will fashion rings of personal importance, expression, and adornment. The class will center around lecture and demonstration with plenty of time for individual attention to create jewelry that is unpredictable, honest, complex, bold, simple, and beautiful. This workshop is designed for beginner to intermediate metalsmiths.

Tim Lazure • August 6-8 • Tuition $290 • Ring 360°

materials and supplies are additional

Lisa Naples

August 7-8 Flat to Functional: Cultivating Personal Expression

Lisa Naples

creates pottery and narrative figures from her barn/studio in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1988. In 2010 her work was featured in the publication Masters Earthenware: Major Works from Leading Artists, a survey of 37 ceramic artists from North America and Europe, and in 2012 she was awarded the Jane and Leonard Korman Prize for Excellence in Contemporary Clay at the 36th Annual Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show. Lisa has exhibited her artwork at the James A. Michener Art Museum, Smithsonian Museum and Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Shows. She has lectured and presented workshops around the country and in Australia.

This demonstration workshop will cover three things in depth: Lisa’s characteristic soft-slab construction, dry-brush slip application, and decoration. Working in red earthenware clay, she will discuss a black iron oxide process she employs in the glazing phase, as well as how she measures density to achieve consistent results with her satin-clear glaze. Finding a way to express something personal through the medium of functional pottery will be discussed.

Just how one finds their ‘voice’ through form and then accentuates that expression through decoration involves an embrace of three forces working together: play, process, and practice.

It happens over a lifetime, but getting started is often the most daunting part. Lisa will guide participants in how to ‘start’ or ‘start over again’ to move your vision and work forward.

Lisa Naples • August 7-8 • Tuition $190 Flat to Functional: Cultivating Personal Expression

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