Instructor: Paul Wisotzky
Monday - Friday
July 14 - 18
9am - 1pm
5 sessions

Open studio Monday - Thursday, 1pm - 4pm

This class will focus on creating functional pots that start on the wheel and through various altering techniques change shape from perfectly round to perfectly not round.  It will include altering at the soft and leather hard stages, deconstruction/reconstruction, adding hand-built elements, subtracting material, and attention to the surface both in the wet and leather-hard stages. We’ll explore a variety of utilitarian pottery forms including mugs, pitchers, serving dishes, and lidded vessels. 
Basic wheel throwing skills required.

Paul Wisotzky is a studio potter and educator from Truro, Massachusetts.  He makes functional pottery fired in reduction and soda atmospheres.  Paul teaches at the Harvard University Ceramics Program, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill and conducts workshops nationally. 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 that was featured in Ceramics Monthly Magazine and in a video available on CLAYflicks.  Residencies include:  Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Penland School of Craft, and Red Lodge Clay Center. 

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