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Throwing Relaxed, Gestural Forms - Adamah Clay Studios, Dodgeville, WI


  • Adamah Clay Studios Dodgeville, WI (map)

July 15 - 20, 2018, 5:00pm Sunday - 1:00pm Friday

Lodging fee: $150

Meals: $140

Workshop: $410

Total Package: $700  (includes lodging, meals and workshop fee)

As intermediate throwers hone their skills they often begin to show an affinity for working more precisely. Precision throwing can lead to sublime beauty or to mechanical repetition that leaves pots a bit stiff. As potters develop their eye along with their technical skills, they sometimes yearn to make forms that breathe – pots that look as though they are still soft and pliable after they are fired.

This workshop will be structured for the potter with basic throwing skills, who would like to make more relaxed forms that feel more gestural. You won’t be encouraged to unlearn any of your hard won technique, but rather to expand the ways of gently altering thrown forms.

We will start with drinking vessels and bowls before moving on to larger and slightly more complex forms. Bisque firing will be available for pots you’d like to take with you.