Instructors 2010

Course number:
01 Pietro Maddalena
14 Richard Phethean
15 Pietro Maddalena
17 Tony & Sheila Clennell
19 Thomas Welti
19a Pietro Maddalena
20 Luca Tripaldi
21 Leah Leitson
23 Carolyn Genders
24 Lucianne Lassalle
26 Pietro Maddalena
27 Luca Tripaldi
29 Patty Wouters
30 Luca Tripaldi
31 D.Polseno-R.Hensley
33 Pietro Maddalena
35 Jan Edwards
37 Luca Tripaldi
38 Ellen Shankin
42 Malcom Davis
44 D.Cichon & M.Dalglish

33 Throwing Techniques and Vapour Glazing
Instructor: Pietro Maddalena
Type: Throwing and hand building
Intermediate and advanced
Date: August 18 - 28  2010

This course will concentrate mainly on the development of both making techniques and aesthetic visual vocabulary. The introduction to, and practice of different ways of manipulating clay, from throwing to the finishing processes, will expand familiarity with the medium and open new possibilities of self expression. All work will be fired using the vapour glazing techniques. The choice of a particular way of firing can influence dramatically the expressive options of the ceramic artist. In vapour glazing the essential transformation brought about by heat and vapours is seen as part of the creative process. This chemically energetic activity can produce varied and exceptional graduations of colour, texture, pattering and flashing in the clays, slips and glazes.

Cost € 980,00
Includes tuition, lodging, welcome dinner, lunches, materials and firings

The above statements reflects only the views of the author and the European Commission can not be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained herein.

Pietro Elia Maddalena studied ceramics at the West Surrey College of Art & Design in England. After two more years of work at Dartington Workshop, he returned to Italy where in 1980 he established a studio in Certaldo, near Florence. Pietro is the founder and director of the International School of Ceramics LA MERIDIANA located in Tuscany, Italy. Also instructor and maker he says of himself : “ I am totally and continuously interested in the process of making. I see the craft object as a projection of the human spirit and the culture in which it was nurtured. In elaborating concept, material and process, my ultimate goal is the expression of beauty through sophisticated and sensual forms”.
www.pietro.net

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