Make Your Mark: Textured Clay Bowl with Grace Epstein

Instructor Artist: Grace Epstein

In this hands-on workshop, you’ll explore the art of expressing your emotions through clay. Using various tools and everyday objects, you’ll impress texture into slab clay, transforming it into a personalized work of art. After shaping your piece on a mold, you’ll apply an underglaze color, which will beautifully contrast with the recessed surfaces that remain white after bisque firing.

You’ll also have the opportunity to try your hand at sgraffito, an Italian technique that involves scratching through an underglaze to reveal the white clay beneath. This reverse drawing method creates striking high-contrast white lines against a colored background on leather-hard clay plates.

Once your creations are glazed and fired, they will be ready for pickup at FVAC in two weeks.

Materials Provided: Slab clay, molds, and leather-hard clay plates will be supplied for your use during the workshop.

Refreshments will be served, and the gallery will be open for your enjoyment. Cheers!

Location: Fisher Gallery
Level: All levels

Workshop Fee: $55 (includes all materials)

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