Instructor: Gay Smith
Monday - Friday
Aug 5 - 9
9am - 1pm
5 sessions
Open studio: Mon- Thurs, 1-4pm

With emphasis on making lively functional ware, we'll explore exciting possibilities for altering forms and surfaces of freshly thrown pots. We'll cover ground from basic throwing techniques to shaping simple round pots into squares, ovals, and triangles, texturing surfaces with fluting, faceting, and impressing. Lids, too. Finishing touches, like handles and feet, will enhance and complete our pots. Individuals will receive personal attention to take their next creative/technical leaps with new skills and ideas to develop in their own work. Basic throwing skills necessary.

Gay Smith, aka Gertrude Graham Smith, fires porcelain ware in her soda kiln near Penland, NC. Her work is exhibited nationally. Artist-in-residencies include Archie Bray Foundation and Penland School. She’s taught at Penland, Haystack, Harvard, and abroad. Collections include the Mint Museum and Taiwan’s Yingge Museum. Grant awards include a NC Arts Council Visual Artist Fellowship and Regional Artist Project Grants. She’s served on the boards of Penland