PRINTMAKING IN CLAY AND BUILDING VESSELS WITH DECORATED SLABS

With Marco Fields

Location: Murray Hotel | 200 W Broadway St, Silver City, NM 88061

When: Wednesday & Thursday | July 13th & 14th | Two-day in person workshop

Time: 9am - 4:30pm

Participants: Max. 16

Price: $175

Students will be introduced to carving their own press molds for various uses - tiles, trays, bowls, etc. As well, students will be introduced to easy image transfer methods for inlaid slip and underglaze transfer techniques. Students will be provided a blank plaster slab/mold. This workshop is results-driven and will include quick demos on handles, cylinders from slabs, cylinders from dowels and better clay boxes/envelope vessels. Materials will be provided, along with limited use of tools. Students are encouraged to bring their own tools and will be encouraged to contact instructor re/ ideas or questions, up to one week prior to the workshop. Students will be emailed clear instructions and possible ideas/images, including copyright-free designs.

White mid-to-high fire stoneware clay will be used during the workshop. Some bisque firing can occur through the course of the week, enabling students to take home bisque, glaze-ready wares.

About Marko:

Marko Fields, BFA, University of Kansas, MFA, Kansas State University, has taught at the college level for 20 years, most recently as Professor and Resident Artist at Concordia University, St. Paul, MN. He worked for ten years as Publications Director for the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA), serving as Publisher & Art Director for ten annual NCECA Journals.

Fields is a McKnight Fellow (2008), as well as the recipient of the Kansas Art Fellowship, a lifetime achievement award. A frequent exhibitor, his work has been featured in more than 25 books and numerous periodicals, and can be seen in private, corporate and public collections, including: The Ceramics Research Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; The Herberger Museum of Art, Phoenix, AZ: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (The DeYoung); the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC; Emprise Bank, Wichita, KS; Hallmark Corporation, KC, MO; Sprint Corporation, KC, MO; and the Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, KS.

He continues to travel regularly to Casas Grandes/Mata Ortiz, Chihuahua, Mexico, where he owns a small house/studio, and works with local potters, representing many of them in Mojo Coffee Gallery’s offering of extraordinary ceramics.