Information and Reminders for Conference Your Class Schedule Saturday and Sunday Presenter Demonstrations Potters Council is pleased to present two full days of demonstration and information exchange. Attendees will sign-up during Friday and/or Saturday morning registration. Attendees will be asked to choose one presenter for AM and PM for Saturday and Sunday. Each attendee will see four of the six presenters. Change of Presenter and Schedule Don Reitz will be unable to present or attend the Functional Ceramics + Beyond Conference for health reasons. He is under doctors orders not to fly at this time. Don sends his regrets and we wish him a speedy recovery. Potters Council is pleased to invite Jason Burnett to present at Functional Ceramics + Beyond conference. Jason was recently featured in Pottery Making Illustrated Sept/Oct 2011 issue. He will be presenting Slippery and Sticky When Wet: Slip Transfer Techniques. Read more about his presentation and hands on learning opportunity. http://ceramicartsdaily.org/potters-council/functional-ceramics-beyond/#presenters Registration Desk and Packets Please note that the registration desk will be located in the AMACO/brent Gallery throughout the weekend. A Potters Council representative will be located at the desk during the conference to answer any questions you may have. We will also have art books and DVDs at a 20% discount (http://www.ceramicartsdaily.org/books/) and discounted Potters Council T-shirts available. Packet Includes the following: Attendee Schedule Presenter Information Host Information Review of Potters Council Benefits (Note: You re now a Member of Potters Council) Indianapolis Area Restaurants List Downtown Indianapolis Restaurants and Pubs List Downtown Indianapolis and Pubs Map Functional Ceramics + Beyond Exhibit Our Host, AMACO/brent, will host an exhibit of presenters work in their gallery. The opening of the exhibition is during our Friday night reception. Sunday Pottery Exchange The Pottery Exchange will be held on Sunday, September 25, 2011 at 12:45pm. This is an optional event. What a great way to end two days of sharing and learning by participating in a pottery exchange. Be sure to bring one piece of your personal work (no large pieces) to be exchanged with a fellow artist. This is sure to be one of the highlights of the workshop. Conference Survey A survey will be emailed to all attendees to complete. Expect the survey to arrive about two weeks after the event. Ceramic Arts Daily Newsletter If you are currently not a subscriber to Ceramic Arts Daily Newsletter, I recommend that you sign up soon at www.ceramicartsdaily.org. The newsletter supplies you with tips, techniques and videos.
Potters Council is pleased to present the conference. This conference features five highly talented artists who will have you excited to get back to your studio to tryout the tips and techniques you ve learned. The schedule is set-up so that attendees can pick and choose which classes to attend over the two day event. Attendees will sign-up during Friday and/or Saturday morning registration. Attendees will be asked to choose one presenter for AM and PM for Saturday and Sunday. Each attendee will see four of the six presenters. We appreciate all your efforts to help us make conference an event to be remembered. All events take place at AMACO/brent corporate office. Attendees will also have the opportunity to shop in the Brickyard Ceramics & Crafts, distributor located onsite. Special hours to be announced. FRIDAY, September 23, 2011 6-8pm Registration and Opening Reception AMACO Gallery SATURDAY, September 24, 2011 8:30-9am Registration/Book Sales AMACO Gallery Functional Ceramics + Beyond Exhibition AMACO Gallery 9am-12pm Choose One Nan Rothwell McKenzie Smith AMACO Technical and Professional Ceramic Artist Staff Rm: Upstairs A Rm: Upstairs B Rm: Downstairs Lunch 12-1pm Lunch (provided) AMACO Gallery Functional Ceramics + Beyond Exhibition AMACO Gallery 1-4pm Choose One Tom Lucas Brooke Noble Jason Burnett Rm: Upstairs A Rm: Upstairs B Rm: Downstairs Lunch 4:15pm Tour of AMACO/brent Meet in AMACO Gallery SUNDAY, September 25, 2011 8:30-9am Registration/Book Sales AMACO Gallery Functional Ceramics + Beyond Exhibition AMACO Gallery 9am-12pm Choose One Tom Lucas Brooke Noble Jason Burnett Rm: Upstairs A Rm: Upstairs B Rm: Downstairs Lunch 12-12:45pm Lunch (provided) AMACO Gallery Functional Ceramics + Beyond Exhibition AMACO Gallery 12:45-1pm Pottery Exchange (Optional) AMACO Gallery 1-4pm Choose One Nan Rothwell McKenzie Smith AMACO Technical and Professional Ceramic Artist Staff Rm: Upstairs A Rm: Upstairs B Rm: Downstairs Lunch
PRESENTER DESCRIPTIONS JASON BURNETT Slippery and Sticky When Wet: Slip Transfer Techniques Working primarily with low fire green-ware, Jason will demonstrate his surface techniques using commercial stained slips and newsprint paper. He ll introduce screen printing slips and how to transfer multicolored patterns, illustrations, and so much more. Participants will gain an understanding of these simple elementary, yet complex, methods involving stamp making, slip-trailing, and stencils. Plus, attendees will learn how to engage their utilitarian forms by carrying on a dialogue with their work and the surface technique. Although Jason works with a low fire clay body these techniques are open for cone 6 to cone 10 with modifications of recipes and materials. He ll demonstrate how these slip transfer techniques can be applied to thrown objects and applied to soft slabs to create objects. Hands On: Attendees will have the opportunity to try out the decorative techniques involving slip transfer, layering, and stenciling on earthenware tiles. For more information about Jason visit: JasonBigeBurnett.com TOM LUCAS The Printer and The Potter Tom will demonstrate a true printmaking approach to surface decoration on clay with a focus on how images can be transferred onto functional forms. Using printmaking techniques such as lithography, screenprinting and relief, he will discuss the unique ways to get everything from text, drawing and photographic images onto to the clay surface. Highlighting the printed images on clay with transparent glazes and wax-resist will bring together the best of what the print shop has to offer to the clay studio. There will be a discussion about the pros and cons with printmaking techniques on green ware as apposed to bisque. Clay bodies with a low grog composition work the best to transfer images so a range of clay bodies can be used. Many of the modified underglazes work to cone 10. These processes work with a basic modification of Amaco underglazes, engobes and glaze from both dry and wet states. In order for them to possess the qualities of printing ink, Tom will discuss the variations between oil-based and water-based mediums used in making the inks for pulling prints onto clay. Hands On: Conference attendees will get the opportunity to print images onto clay tiles utilizing some of the demonstrated printmaking approaches. For more information about Tom visit: thomaslucasart.com and hummingbirdpresslac.blogspot.com. BROOKE NOBLE Pictorial Porcelain: Enhancing the Surface with Pattern, Design, and Personal Narrative Brooke s demonstration will include various ways in which to make forms as well as an array of ways to excite the surface with several decorative techniques being shown and exercised by those who attend. Participants will gain a new vocabulary of skills and technique and take home ideas on how to develop and expand on their own personal style. The presentation of methods will focus on enhancing the ceramic surface through a variety of techniques. Participants will learn how to add interest and voice to the surface of functional pots and other porcelain forms. Methods of creating forms will be discussed and shown are: simple wheel throwing, wet hand-building on the wheel head, soft-slab construction, slip-casting, and a coil-building/pinching technique used to create texture. By employing various ways of making, Brooke will create forms with which to embellish the surface, and practice several decoration techniques. These techniques include: mishima, sgraffito, thermofax screen-printing, shellac resist, slip trailing, plaster image transfer, the use of text and font, using templates for slip application, as well as some glazing tips. Conversation about design choices, composition, and the inclusion of narrative as a vehicle for personal messages will be encouraged. Hands On: Participants will practice some of the demonstrated techniques by decorating blank porcelain tiles using carving tools, colored slips and underglazes, type-font, and screened imagery.
PRESENTER DESCRIPTIONS CONT D NAN ROTHWELL Playing with Thrown Forms; Stretching Your Comfort Zone Starting with wheel-thrown components, Nan will demonstrate multiple ways to alter their shapes and add texture. Techniques will include faceting with a wiggle wire while the wheel is stationary and moving, creating square and oval forms, and stretching a surface that has been dried with cornstarch to create a parched-earth texture. Nan will show you a number of ways to step outside your comfort zone and work larger, including how to center larger amounts of clay in stages, and how to grow a pot by adding then throwing successive rings of clay. You will come away from the demo with an expanded sense of what is possible on the wheel, in shapes, textures and sizes. For more information about Nan visit: www.nanrothwellpottery.com. MCKENZIE SMITH Clay, Form, Slip, Glaze For this demonstration McKenzie will focus on the making of wheel thrown functional ware exploring a variety of forms including thrown and altered pots. He will demonstrate a number of decorating techniques including the use of slips, wax and glaze. For more information about McKenzie visit: mckenziepottery.com
HOST Potters Council would like to thank our host for helping make this conference successful. AMACO/brent - Sponsor AMACO/brent 6060 Guion Road Indianapolis, IN 46254-122 (800) 374-1600 (317) 244-6871 Website: www.amaco.com AMACO/brent is the leader in safe formulation of glazes and clays worldwide with quality ceramic products and equipment since 1919. Brent Potters wheels are built for life, while AMACO kilns can last 30 years. You ll see how clays, glazes, wheels and kilns are made! Family owned and operated, AMACO also makes enduring sculpting, modeling and casting compounds for the classroom and studio, as well as, Brent warecarts, slabrollers, and hand extruders. You will spend time in the AMA- CO/brent Contemporary Clay Gallery where you will view the presenters artwork and also see the Historical AMACO Art Deco Pottery Collection. AMACO was the first maker of lead free glazes starting in the 50 s with almost 600 lead free colors including AMACO Velvet Underglazes and Potter s Choice Cone 5-6 glazes. http://www.amaco.com/about-amaco/
www.potterscouncil.org SCHEDULE POTTERS COUNCIL Potters Council MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS A Growing Community... We invite you to actively participate in one of the most exciting and informative pottery communities. Our mission is clear: to meet the needs of ceramic artists by providing forums for knowledge exchange and professional enhancement. Membership benefits include: FREE Potters Pages, membership newsletter One ad in Potters Pages newsletter, and discounts on additional ads Online gallery promoting members work to the public Online directory of members studios Online member directory Mentoring Program DISCOUNTS Discount on all Potters Council regional conferences 20% discount on Ceramic Art Books and DVDs, a growing collection that includes more than 35 titles 20% discount on one-year subscription of Ceramics Monthly 20% discount on one-year subscription of Pottery Making Illustrated And much more 2011 CONFERENCE CERAMICS IN ITALY October 18 29, 2011 Italy FEATURING: Pietro Maddelena and Marcia Selsor 2012 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE HANDBUILDING II February 3 5, 2012 San Diego, California FEATURING: Hayne Bayless, Sandi Pierantozzi, Joseph Pintz, and Amy Sanders. ALABAMA CLAY CONFERENCE February 17 19, 2012 Potters Council Sponsorship Real Health Insurance Available! To receive your online quote and learn more about the health plan coverage, go to www.potterscouncilhealthplans.com. $52 800.424.8698 NORTH CAROLINA POTTERS CONFERENCE March 2 4, 2012 Potters Council Sponsorship