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Peters Valley Craft Center, Layton NJ Ceramics workshops at Peters Valley Craft Center

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Founded in 1970, Peters Valley is located within the scenic, Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area  along the Delaware River.  We are in the northwest corner of New  Jersey, where NY, NJ & PA meet.  The campus is a rural setting with a wooded landscape, just 2 hours north  of Philadelphia and only 60 miles northwest of NYC. Public Transportation from NYC is available.

 2008 Ceramics Workshops 

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July 25 - 27 Bruce Dehnert Open Studio with Firings Galore
August 1 - 5 Torbjörn Kvasbø Between Clay and Mind: Preparing for the Anagama
August 6 - 12 Torbjörn Kvasbø Between Clay and Mind: Firing the Anagama
August 22 - 26 Lynn Munns Woodfiring the Two Chamber Kiln
August 30 - 31 Ayumi Horie Potential Pottery
September 6 - 7 Linda Shusterman Expressing Personal Imagery on Handmade Tile
Classes which have already run for 2008...
May 17-18 Adam Welch Mud Glorious Mud
May 24 - 26 Harvey Sadow Flash Firing & Multi-Fired Raku
May 30 - June 3  Josh DeWeese The Art of Pottery
June 6 - 10 Susan D. Harris Surface & Substance

June 13 - 17

Anat Shiftan Ceramics: The Still Life/A Center Piece
June 20 - 24 Kathryn Finnerty I am Fancy and so Can You
June 27 - July 1 Jimmy Clark Pinch Pottery and Pit-firing
July 4-8 Phil Rogers Salt Glaze
July 11 - 15 Jim Chaney Sake Bottles: Abstract Clay from Plaster Molds
July 18 - 22 Michael Flynn Dynamic Relationships
     

All photographic work accompanying classes are images of instructor's own work, allowing potential students to see the caliber of their skill, and may not be representative of the class being offered.

May 17 & 18, 2008 (2 Days) : Mud Glorious Mud
Instructor: Adam Welch Tuition: $250
Level: Beginner Lab Fee: $35*
Mud Glorious Mud with Adam Welch May 17 - 18

This workshop, with New York ceramicist Adam Welch, will be a hands-on introduction to working with clay.

We will focus on learning the fundamentals of the potter’s wheel with projects, group exercises and heaps of individual attention. Become part of one of the world’s great craft traditions!

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Adam Welch is an artist living in Brooklyn, New York. He is currently the Assistant Director of Greenwich House Pottery in Manhattan. His work is exhibited throughout the United States. Currently he is publishing scholarly essays and reviews in national and international journals.

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* Lab Fee includes one bag of clay. Any additional may be purchased as needed in the studio.

May 24 - 26, 2008 (3 Days) : Flash Firing & Multi-Fired Raku
Instructor: Harvey Sadow Tuition: $325
Level: Beginner to Advanced Lab Fee: $60
Flash Firing and Multi-fired Raku with Harvey Sadow May 24 - 26

This workshop explores many aspects of “flash firing” or American raku, including clays, glazes, glaze application, post fired reduction materials and techniques, color development and kilns.

Students will also have the opportunity to experience the differences between Japanese and American raku, multiple firing, resist slips, sandblasting, and other surface revision techniques.

Participants are invited to bring bisque fired pieces to glaze and fire.

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Harvey Sadow is the Director of the Paducah School of Art and has taught workshops across the US, Asia and Australia. His artwork is represented in numerous major collections worldwide including The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Everson Museum, The International Museum of Ceramic Art and the White House Collection of American Crafts.

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May 30 - June 3, 2008 (5 days) : The Art of Pottery
Instructor: Josh DeWeese Tuition: $450
Level: Intermediate to Advanced Lab Fee: $60*
The Art of Pottery with Josh Deweese May 30 – June 3

This is a workshop for developing a personal language with pottery as a form of expression.

The class will provide instruction of different ways for making pots using both throwing and handbuilding techniques, and firing them in an atmospheric soda kiln.

Ideas and information for surface treatments and firing techniques will be discussed and shared.

Slides of the artist’s work and contemporary ceramics will compliment this hands-on experience.

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Josh DeWeese is a ceramic artist and educator. He currently teaches ceramics at Montana State University in Bozeman, where he and his wife Rosalie Wynkoop have recently built a home and studio. DeWeese served as Resident Director of the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in Helena, Montana from 1992-2006.  He holds an MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred, and a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute. DeWeese has exhibited and taught workshops internationally and his work is included in numerous public and private collections.

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* Lab Fee includes one bag of clay. Any additional may be purchased as needed in the studio.

June 6 - 10, 2008  (5 days): Surface & Substance
Instructor: Susan D. Harris Tuition: $450
Level: Beginner to Advanced Lab Fee: $60*
Surface and Substance with Susan D. Harris June 6 - 10

This workshop will initiate the use of a wide variety of surface texturing tools and techniques through a series of demonstrations and slide talks.

We will develop implements made of clay, plastic, wood and plaster, exploring their placement on wheel thrown and hand built vessels throughout the workshop.

Correct timing for the use of each tool on wet, leather hard and dry clay, as well as placement of pattern and design in ways that enhance the form of the vessel will be emphasized.

Completed pieces will be vapor fired.

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Susan Harris is Professor of Art & Design at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, UT. Her work can be seen in numerous textbooks and has appeared in national and international exhibitions. She was elected NCECA Fellow of the Council in 1999.

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* Lab Fee includes one bag of clay. Any additional may be purchased as needed in the studio.

June 13 - 17, 2008  (5 days): Ceramics: The Still Life/A Center Piece
Instructor: Anat Shiftan Tuition: $450
Level: Beginner to Advanced Lab Fee: $60*
Ceramics: The Still Life/A Center Piece with Anat Shiftan June 13 - 17

An introduction to the concepts of the center piece and still life traditions will serve as a starting point for development and execution of individual work.

Participants will explore composition in reaction to a specific situation or historical work.

Concrete and abstract forms will be explored.

Mixing objects made with various techniques will be encouraged. Participants will work at their own pace and receive individual attention as they develop their own body of work.

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Anat Shiftan has worked at Pewabic Pottery since receiving her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art & Design. She has taught at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and since 2003 teaches at SUNY New Paltz. Her interests include a wide variety of ceramic processes and traditions as well as printmaking and digital imaging.

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* Lab Fee includes one bag of clay. Any additional may be purchased as needed in the studio.

June 20 - 24, 2008  (5 days): I am Fancy and so Can You
Instructor:Kathryn Finnerty Tuition: $450
Level: Intermediate to Advanced Lab Fee: $55*
I am Fancy and so Can You with Kathryn Finnerty June 20 - 24

In this workshop students will focus on developing a vocabulary of integrated surfaces and forms.

We will make plaster tablets, incise them with images and designs and then learn to construct a variety of forms.

Demonstrations will also include altering & darting, making and using sprigs & stamps for surface embellishment, as well as pattern making for forms.

There will be discussions regarding the development of personal aesthetics, sources (photocopies/books) of decorative imagery and patterns.

A slide lecture on decoration and ornament will be presented.

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Kathryn Finnerty is a studio potter living and working in Pleasant Hill, OR. Her pottery is ornately decorated with surface patterns and images that draw on her love of the historical traditions of European decorative ceramics. She received her BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design and her MFA from Louisiana State University. Kathryn’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally as well as published in a number of books and magazines.

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* Lab Fee includes one bag of clay. Any additional may be purchased as needed in the studio.

June 27 – July 1, 2008  (5 days): Pinch Pottery and Pit-firing
Instructor: Jimmy Clark Tuition: $450
Level:Beginner to Advanced Lab Fee: $45*
Pinch Pottery and Pit-firing with Jimmy Clark June 27 – July 1

This workshop will provide both a technical and philosophical approach to working with clay and how it connects us to the earth.

We will explore numerous variations on the pinch method including: creating larger pieces, working intuitively and exploring asymmetrical forms.

Surface applications will include burnishing and working with terra sigillata.

Smaller pieces created by the students will be fired in a slow burning sawdust firing with sulfates and other techniques used to influence the surface.

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Jimmy Clark is Executive Director of Peters Valley. Previously he was director of the Clay Studio in Philadelphia for over 16 years. He is a widely recognized ceramic artist and has written, and been featured in numerous articles in “Ceramics Monthly”, “Studio Potter”, and “American Craft” as well as many publications abroad. He is good friends with Paulus Berensohn, author of “Finding One’s Way with Clay” the defining work on pinch potting and wrote the forward for the 25th anniversary republication of the book.

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* Lab Fee includes one bag of clay. Any additional may be purchased as needed in the studio.

July 4 - 8, 2008  (5 days): Salt Glaze
Instructor: Phil Rogers Tuition: $450
Level: Intermediate to Advanced Lab Fee: $65*
Salt Glaze with Phil Rogers July 4-8

This workshop will begin with a brief talk about the instructor’s experiences with salt glazing.

Students will make their own pieces that will be dried and bisque fired.

We will cover some slips and glazes suitable for salt firing.

This intensive workshop with one of the world’s foremost experts on salt firing will include demonstrations, ample opportunity for discussions and conclude with a salt firing.

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A full time potter for 30 years, Phil Rogers lives and works in Mid Wales. In 2002 A&C Black published Salt Glazing, a detailed overview on salting practices and an in depth look at contemporary approaches. He recently built a three chamber kiln that incorporates a salt chamber. Phil has written two other books: Ash Glazes and Throwing Pots both of which are still available. He has had 46 one man shows spread throughout the world and his work is held in more than 40 museums including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Museum of Modern Ceramics in Mashiko, Japan and the Museum of Art in Mino, Japan.

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* Lab Fee includes one bag of clay. Any additional may be purchased as needed in the studio.

July 11 - 15, 2008  (5 days): Sake Bottles: Abstract Clay from Plaster Molds
Instructor: Jim Chaney Tuition: $450
Level: Beginner to Advanced Lab Fee: $75*
Sake Bottles: Abstract Clay from Plaster Molds with Jim Chaney July 11 - 15

This workshop, by experienced mold maker Jim Chaney, will transport the participant from three dimensional concept to fired ceramic form across a five-day exploration of two-part plaster drain molds.

Solid sculptural clay and modified found objects will be rendered as hollow “sake” bottle forms through the magic of slip casting.

The hand-held scale and sensibility of the “sake” bottle is central to both traditional ceramics production and appreciation. Low-fire clay, glazes, and electric kilns will be utilized.

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Jim Chaney has worked with clay in venues ranging from the IWCAT program in Tokoname, Japan to the Kohler Corporation in Wisconsin. His abstract, slip-cast, anagama-fired, “Sake Forms” have recently been exhibited in “Pennsylvania Craft”, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, “Mastery in Clay”, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia and “Wood and Ash”, 2008 NCECA, Pittsburgh. Having earned an MFA from Kent State University in 1975, he has been developing the Ceramics Program at Kutztown University for the past 30 years.

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* Lab Fee includes one bag of clay. Any additional may be purchased as needed in the studio.

July 18 - 22, 2008  (5 days): Dynamic Relationships
Instructor: Michael Flynn Tuition: $450
Level: Beginner to Advanced Lab Fee: $50*
Dynamic Relationships Michael Flynn July 18 - 22 (5 days)

Human and animal figures have been explored for nearly 30,000 years, beginning with the Venus of Willendorf.

The history of ceramics is particularly rich with examples of the human likeness being used to express cultural and individual experience.

During this workshop, students will be introduced to handbuilding and modeling techniques aimed at achieving human and/or animal forms.

Exploring the potential juxtapositions of material, surface, color and form, the workshop will include demonstrations, lectures and ample individual instruction from this world-class sculptor.

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Michael Flynn studied painting, ceramics and sculpture at Birmingham, Worcester and Cardiff College of Art in the United Kingdom. His work is included in such collections as the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and the Virginia Museum of Art in Richmond. He has taught at the Royal College of Art & Design, S’Hertogogenbosch in the Netherlands, New York University, College of Art in Oslo, Institute for Fine Art Ceramics, and Hohrgrenzhausen in Denmark. Michael has also taught modeling and drawing from life at colleges/universities throughout Britain and Europe.

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* Lab Fee includes one bag of clay. Any additional may be purchased as needed in the studio.

July 25 - 27, 2008  (3 days): Open Studio with Firings Galore
Instructor: Bruce Dehnert Tuition: $325
Level: Beginner to Advanced Lab Fee: $65*
Open Studio with Firings Galore with Bruce Dehnert July 25 - 27 (3 days)

This workshop will provide participants the opportunity to bring their own ideas/issues/challenges, no matter the technique, and work at their own pace.

There will be three days of a wide range of firings including raku, sawdust, electric, soda, and the small, wood-fueled Brodnax Backfire Kiln.

Low temperatures to High, this annual workshop is for the firing junkie or the artist looking to get out of their own studio and into the mad chaos of new ideas, inspirations, and varying approaches.

Participants are encouraged to bring bisque-fired raku/stoneware/porcelain pots or sculptures ready to be fired.

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PLEASE CALLTHE OFFICE AT 973-948-5200 TO BE PLACED ON WAITING LIST


Bruce Dehnert, ceramics Department Head at Peters Valley, has taught at Hunter College, Parsons School of Design, the School of Art in New Zealand, Universiti Malaysia on the Island of Borneo and the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. His work is exhibited internationally and is included in numerous collections such as The White House Collection.

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* Lab Fee includes one bag of clay. Any additional may be purchased as needed in the studio.

August 1 - 5, 2008  (5 days):
Between Clay and Mind... Preparing for the Anagama
Instructor: Torbjörn Kvasbø Tuition: $450
Level: Intermediate to Advanced Lab Fee: $110*
Between Clay and Mind: Preparing for the Anagama with Torbjorn Kvasbo August 1 - 5

This workshop will involve five days of making pots and/or sculpture for the firing of the anagama kiln and will provide students the rarest of opportunities to study with arguably one of the world’s leading artists working today with this type of wood firing.

Törbjorn’s brief on this workshop is as follows: “Make work, discuss work, fire work. Play, experiment, and try to get the maximum out of the materials and processes.”

Participants are invited to put work into the anagama firing that will follow this workshop.

THIS CLASS IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE FOR ONLINE REGISTRATION.
TO ENSURE REGISTRATION, PLEASE CALLTHE OFFICE AT 973-948-5200.

Torbjörn Kvasbø is professor at the Department of Ceramics and Glass at Konstfack. He received his degree in Ceramics from Kunsthogskolen in Norway and has worked internationally as an artist educator since 1984. He has been professor of ceramics at HDK in Gothenburg and held teaching fellowships and organized workshops at colleges and universities in Europe, Asia, North America, Australia and New Zealand, and most recently at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, China.

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* Lab Fee includes one bag of clay. Any additional may be purchased as needed in the studio.

August 6 - 12, 2008 with an unloading on August 17, 2008 (7 days):
Between Clay and Mind... Firing the Anagama
Instructor: Torbjörn Kvasbø Tuition: $600
Level: Intermediate to Advanced Lab Fee: $110*
Between Clay and Mind: Firing the Anagama Torbjörn Kvasbø August 6 - 12 & unloading August 17  PAY NOW! >> Members:CLICK HERE!
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This workshop will involve the preparation of work for the anagama firing.

The stacking and firing will focus on maximizing all the zones of the kiln.

Come join in firing our kiln with this important Norwegian ceramicist.

Students in this workshop are invited to bring 20-30 pieces of bisque-fired, HIGH temperature stoneware or porcelain.


Torbjörn Kvasbø is professor at the Department of Ceramics and Glass at Konstfack. He received his degree in Ceramics from Kunsthogskolen in Norway and has worked internationally as an artist educator since 1984. He has been professor of ceramics at HDK in Gothenburg and held teaching fellowships and organized workshops at colleges and universities in Europe, Asia, North America, Australia and New Zealand, and most recently at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, China.

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* Lab Fee includes one bag of clay. Any additional may be purchased as needed in the studio.

August 22 - 26, 2008 (5 days): Woodfiring the Two Chamber Kiln
Instructor: Lynn Munns Tuition: $450
Level: Beginner to Advanced Lab Fee: $80
Woodfiring the Two Chamber Kiln with Lynn Munns August 22 - 26 

During this intensive wood-firing workshop, participants will spend the first day decorating and preparing work they bring for the firing.

The following days consist of loading the kiln, firing, cooling, and the excitement of unloading.

It’s ironic that Lynn Munns, one of our favorite instructors here at the Valley and an artist who has worked primarily on wood-firing for 30 years, has never taught the wood-firing workshop.

So come be a part of history-in-the-making!

Students are encouraged to bring 20 bisque-fired works made from HIGH temperature stoneware or porcelain.

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PLEASE CALLTHE OFFICE AT 973-948-5200 TO BE PLACED ON WAITING LIST

Lynn Munns is the chairman of the Division of Fine Arts at Casper College in Wyoming. He is a full-time potter, committee member of the NEA and a recipient of the Rosenthal Award. His work is exhibited extensively throughout the United States.

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August 30 & 31, 2008 (2 days): Potential Pottery
Instructor:Ayumi Horie Tuition: $250
Level: Intermediate to Advanced Lab Fee: $50*
Potential Pottery with Ayumi Horie August 30 - 31  PAY NOW! >> Members: CLICK HERE!
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In this hands-on workshop we will focus our energy on what a pot can potentially be through a series of exercises designed to develop and quiet the critic.

Readings will be discussed and slide lectures and videos will be shown.


Ayumi Horie works full-time as a studio potter in upstate NY, and in addition teaches workshops nationally and internationally. She is on the board of the Archie Bray Foundation in Montana. Ayumi draws inspiration for her work from Japanese and American fold traditions.

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* Lab Fee includes one bag of clay. Any additional may be purchased as needed in the studio.

September 6 & 7, 2008 (2 days):
Expressing Personal Imagery on Handmade Tile
Instructor: Linda Shusterman Tuition: $250
Level: Beginner to Advanced Lab Fee: $25*
Expressing Personal Imagery on Handmade Tile with Linda Shusterman September 6 - 7 PAY NOW! >> Members:CLICK HERE!
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Students will explore decorative techniques on clay including slip application, terra sigillata and scraffitto on leather-hard clays.

Paper resist, stamping and slip trailing will be demonstrated.

Tile will be created that can be used sculpturally, functionally or as part of a mosaic.


Linda Shusterman, artist and teacher, has been working in clay since 1972. Most recently her work in porcelain is fired in a Norborigama kiln using wood and salt. Her work has been exhibited nationally and has been published in “Ceramics Monthly” and “Ceramic Art & Perception” magazines. She continues to teach at the Community College of Philadelphia and Gloucester County College in New Jersey.

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* Lab Fee includes one bag of clay. Any additional may be purchased as needed in the studio.


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Peters Valley Craft Center is funded in part by a grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Discover Jersey Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Peters Valley Craft Center is operated in cooperation with the National Park Service, Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.

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