Summer Glaze Session 3 (September)
$100.00
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Instructor: Paul Wisotzky
Saturday, Sept 14
9:30am - 12:30pm
1 session

This half-day session will provide a brief overview of basic decorating and glazing techniques, along with time for you to glaze your pieces for Castle Hill’s reduction kiln.  This workshop is intended to give individuals an opportunity to finish and glaze firework made in other Castle Hill workshops.  The session includes a brief overview of glazing and decorating techniques.  All materials and basic tools provided.  Bring a maximum of ten bisque fired pieces to glaze during the session, no larger than 10x10x10”/each.  Work glazed during the session will be fired in reduction to cone 10 and will be available for pick up approximately two weeks following the workshop.

Please ensure that all clay used to make the work you intend to glaze was purchased through
Castle Hill.
 

Paul Wisotzky is a studio potter and educator from Truro, Massachusetts.  He makes functional pottery from porcelain and stoneware and fires his work in soda and reduction atmospheres at his studio Blueberry Lane Pottery.  Paul teaches at the Harvard University Ceramics Program, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill and conducts workshops across the United States.  He is a founder and co-producer of SodaPosium, a national educational gathering and celebration of soda firing.  Paul developed a process of digitally designing and fabricating sponge stamps using graphic design software and a laser cutter.  This process was featured in Ceramics Monthly Magazine and in an educational video available through the Ceramic Arts Network and CLAYflicks.  In his workshops and classes, Paul uses the stamps to decorate his pottery as well as teaching others how to use them.  Residencies include Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Penland School of Craft, and Red Lodge Clay Center.