Indulge in a day of uninterrupted creating in the hand building ceramic studio. You will learn how combining the three basic hand building skills, pinch, coil, and slab, and a little meditation can help you create an expressive and beautiful vessel. The short meditations throughout the day will help center us into our creative practice and inspire us to create intuitively. We will learn how to apply underglazes onto leather hard clay and explore the sgraffito technique. You will leave this workshop with your creative cup filled and inspired to get back into the hand building studio and create your next vessel.
Required Supplies
Instructor
Sarah Johnston
Sarah Johnston is a native from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and a second-generation artist that attended precollege courses at Carnegie Mellon University and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts with a focus in Ceramics from Temple University, Tyler School of Art. She was trained in realistic drawing techniques, printmaking, and ceramics. Sarah has been teaching and creating for over 20 years and loves introducing others to clay and creating of any kind.
Sarah uses color, pattern, and form to express the joys and challenges of interpersonal relationships and her own mental health through her art. She is passionate about the crucial link between individual expression and mental and physical health and believes that art and expression of any kind has the power to heal.