33 Dissolving Boundaries
Instructor: Frank Bosco
Type: Throwing and Hand building. For all
Date: August 15 – 28, 2010
The Italian landscape, architecture, and the vessel differ only in context and not in kind. The spirit of this workshop will focus on finding a cohesive relationship to these three boundless subjects as we make our way though the clay process while situated in this rich, albeit temporary Tuscan setting. Students will utilize local clays, and porcelain in creating shapes on the wheel, slab construction, extruded forms, press moulds, and pigmented slips to compose and texture. Add to that the facility’s soda-firing kiln to breath on the surfaces.
Trips into the surrounding Tuscan landscape will help us formulate ideas into drawings and sketches, just like Giotto, well almost.
Cost: € 1600
Includes tuition, materials and firings, lodging and lunches
 Frank Bosco lives and works in New Jersey. He received a BFA from the Rhode Island School on Design, and MFA from Alfred University. Frank founded a school in 1997, The New York/New Jersey Academy of Ceramic Art, which offers classes to local colleges and the public. Additional he is a Senior Critic at the Rhode Island School of Design where he has taught since 1994.
Collaborations which produced unique ceramic sculptures include the American painters Frank Stella, and James Brown.
www.nynjceramics.com
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