Advanced Wheel Throwing with Ian Childers
- Overview
- Location
- Workshop Description
- About The Artist
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Join us for a two-day workshop and wheel-throwing intensive: Advanced Forms with Ian Childers!
This hands-on workshop will cover a series of more complex, advanced, and larger-scale vessels, and focus on fine-tuning so you can throw with more precision at the wheel. This workshop is an intensive wheel throwing and will also include trimming, along with numerous demos throughout the workshop. The workshop is hands-on where you will be practicing the techniques under the guidance and supervision from Ian.
Ian is also teaching an additional workshop at our Santa Monica location: Crystalline Glazes on August 8th and 9th. If you register for both workshops, we will also allow attendees of the Advanced Throwing workshop to fire one of their pieces in the crystalline firing in addition to the provided bisque pieces.
588 Mateo St, Los Angeles, CA, 90013
This is a two-day workshop meeting on:
- Saturday, August 1st // 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
- Sunday, August 2nd // 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
The group will be provided with cone 10 BMIX clay; participants are also welcome to bring their own clay bodies if they would prefer to use them/ask for throwing suggestions based on their preferred clay.
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Day 1: Advanced throwing methods and techniques:
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Wedging larger quantities of clay
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Advanced, elegant forms: planning, designing, and throwing
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Cylinders, scaling up, throwing in sections
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Narrow necks/bottles
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Day 2: Advanced throwing methods and techniques + Advanced trimming suggestions
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Trimming methods for narrow neck vessels
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Wet vs dry chucks
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Throwing/form considerations for use with glazecatchers / in specialty firings
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This workshop is suitable for those with basic throwing skills to experienced throwing skills. Throwing experience is required. If you'd like to keep and fire your work from this workshop, you may do so for an extra $75 fee. Access to our Cone 10 glazes will be included in the additional fee.
In the late 1990s Ian decided to leave the northeast in search of a new perspective… the exact opposite of the northeast. He found himself as an art student at a small liberal arts college in North GA, where he was introduced to ceramics as a requirement for graduation. After his first ceramics class, he was completely hooked. “Life in GA was uncomfortably slow for me, sitting at a potter’s wheel was the first thing I found in the south that helped calm my angst and direct my energy towards something creative”. Shortly after deciding to become a ceramics major, Ian found crystalline glazes. The challenge these glazes put forward created a lifelong passion for Ian.
In 2005, Ian was accepted to the University of Massachusetts in Amherst as a graduate student in ceramics. He spent the next three years focused on research and development of his crystalline glazes. Since that time Ian has shown his work and conducted workshops extensively both internationally and nationally. In 2013 he was invited to attend a symposium in La Bisbal, Spain to show his work and give a lecture about his techniques in crystalline glazing to the international community. Most recently, Ian’s work and technique have been featured in the July/August 2016 issue of Pottery Making Illustrated.
Ian is currently a Professor of Ceramics at Mississippi University for Women in Columbus, MS.
By enrolling in a class or workshop, you are acknowledging that you have read and understand the safety instructions and liability waiver.
Cancellations made 4 or more days before the start of the class will be refunded. For cancellations made fewer than 4 full days, but more than 24 hours before the start time, a 50% refund or 50% credit toward another class or workshop will be issued. We cannot provide refunds or credits for cancellations or rescheduling requests made fewer than 24 hours before the start time of class, if you miss your class, or arrive too late to participate.
