Demonstrations
Friday, April 24
Jim Koudelka
Ceramic Baskets: Thrown & Handbuilt
Inspiration for my work comes from a combination of life experiences, process of creating, art history, mid century painters and objects, and nature. I use the making of strong, aesthetic, and inviting functional pottery to help people connect to my work in their use of it on a daily basis.
Lis Walden
Handbuilding: Tips & Tricks
Elisabeth Walden (b. 1987) is an artist, printmaker and ceramicist based in Portland, OR. Her work explores her relationship with her fat, female body, as shaped by contemporary American culture and art history using a variety of painting, printmaking, sculptural and experimental mixed-media techniques.
Logan Rainey
Intermediate Throwing Strategies: Taller & Lighter
Logan is a functional potter who draws inspiration from many facets of nature and applies them to his work through physical texture in the clay, or through the interaction between glaze and form. As someone who appreciates fine details in otherwise normal, everyday items, he finds great peace in making unique objects that conjure images of geological formations, landscapes, and other acts of nature.
Jennifer Hill
A Simple Palette for Dramatic Textures
Jennifer Hill is a studio artist and traveling instructor based in Klamath Falls, Oregon. She has called several interesting places home but was most artistically influenced living on The Garden Isle of Kauai, inspired by the luscious flora and textures of the sea.
Saturday, April 25
Tea Thanhbinh Duong
Pushing Clay: Efficiently Utilize All Your Clay
As a young child and soon-to-be artist, Tea Duong immigrated from Vietnam to the United States. He has been a studio potter since 1986. As an artist, he has studied and worked abroad in New Zealand, Australia and Europe.
Aubrey Sloan
Carving with Diamond Core Tools
Aubrey Sloan is a Portland, OR based studio potter, at Stark Street Studios and Gallery in SE Portland. Her practice focus on producing finely crafted, functional and decorative pottery for the home and restaurant space. With over a decade and a half of experience in crafting intimate experiences in clay, Aubrey focuses her production on gallery representation, craft fairs, and commissions from individuals, local and regional businesses, and some of the world's finest restaurants.
Brad McElmore
Stretching Marks: Stretching, Altering, Forming
Darah Lundberg
Two-part Bottles & Vases
As a ceramic artist I look toward my natural surroundings. I attempt to execute soft, and inviting forms that are free of pretension and focus on nourishment and relationships with the earth. I am thoughtful of form and surface.
Kevin Mealy
An Artist’s Approach to Production Pottery
During my time in high school, I took two years of ceramics and one year of AP Studio Art. After my junior year, my teacher generously let me borrow a pottery wheel, which I used almost every week to practice. Eventually, I was able to keep the old pottery wheel. When I graduated from high school, my parents gifted me a kiln, which led me to transform the old washroom in the basement of my parents' fourplex in the Irvington neighborhood into my own personal studio.
Maya Elin
The Handle
My life is one big (atmospheric) glaze test. Aiming for gentle and kind.
Wil Labelle
Moon Jars
