Instructor: Ben Krupka
Monday - Wednesday & Friday
July 1 - 3, 5
9am - 2pm
4 sessions
Open studio: Mon - Wed, 2 - 4pm

The goal of this workshop is to help individuals identify their unique voice in clay while improving their wheel throwing, hand building, and surface decorating techniques. This will be accomplished through demonstrations with follow up exercises as well as one-on-one and group critiques. Demonstrations will focus on simple functional forms, addressing proportion, visual and physical weight, cross sections, and the connection between form and surface. Techniques for throwing and trimming, handles, coil-building and surface treatments will be explored.  Feel free to bring whatever tools you may like to use, but nothing special is required.

Ben Krupka is a studio artist and Professor of Ceramics at Bard College at Simon’s Rock. Ben completed an MFA at Utah State University and residencies at the Archie Bray Foundation, Red Lodge Clay Center, and a teaching fellowship at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. Ben’s work appears in books and publications, and has been exhibited nationwide. In 2020, he cofounded an artist collective in Great Barrington, MA.