Instructor: Paul Wisotzky
Saturday, July 26
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 fire work made in other Castle Hill workshops.  The session includes a brief overview of glazing and decorating technique.  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. 

Additional Costs:
In addition to the workshop fee there is a glaze-firing fee. Pieces are measured and cost is calculated by the square foot.

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.  Paul uses the stamps to decorate his pottery as well as teaching others how to use them in his workshops and classes.  Residencies include:  Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Penland School of Craft, and Red Lodge Clay Center.