Ceramic Handbuilding: Trays, Tiles and Trivets
A Workshop with Linda Wervey Vitamvas
Fee: $85/ $75 members (all materials included)
Registration: Registration is now closed. You may also be interested in Ceramic Handbuilding: Porcelain Vases with Linda Wervey Vitamvas, February 23, 10 am-4 pm, or Ceramic Handbuilding: Trays, Tiles and Trivets with Linda Wervey Vitamvas, March 14, 10 am-4 pm.
Working in clay is deeply satisfying, and making pottery allows one to explore aesthetics and function simultaneously. In Trays, Tiles, and Trivets we will work with porcelain slabs. The focus will be on different surface decoration techniques such as stencils, image transfer, various carving methods, and adding underglazes for color. With changes in scale and minor additions our flat designs will magically turn into functional trays, tiles and trivets. Bring textures and objects to press into the clay as well as images and designs that you would like to see take form on your pieces. They will then be fired and finished with a clear glaze to protect the surface and make them functional. Those attending more than one workshop will find plenty to do each time.
Bring a bag lunch and beverages and dress for studio work as well as the outdoors. We’ll be making use of Lynden’s 40 beautiful acres during our breaks, weather permitting.
You will need to return at a later date to pick up your pieces.
About Linda Wervey Vitamvas
Linda Wervey Vitamvas earned her B.S. in Nursing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and practiced psychiatric, obstetrical and surgical nursing before returning to UWM for her M.F.A. Vitamvas has won awards in the 2009 Wisconsin Biennial, Forward: A Survey of Wisconsin Art Now, and the 2005 and 2010 Kohler Eight Counties exhibitions. Her work has been featured in the 2010 Wisconsin Triennial at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Wisconsin Art in West Bend and at the Wisconsin Academy’s James Watrous Gallery in Madison. She has also exhibited at the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Villa Terrace Decorative Art Museum as well as in ceramic arts exhibitions nationally. Linda Wervey Vitamvas has been an artist-in-residence at the Lynden Sculpture Garden; you may read more about her residency here.