Thursday Morning Clay, Session 4
Instructor: Paul Wisotzky
February 20 - March 27
9am - 12pm
6 sessions

This six week session will focus on making and decorating ceramics for the soda atmosphere. In the studio, wheel-based demonstrations will focus on making work with a focus on forms and surface that play well in the soda kiln. Emphasis will include a focus on surface and forms that respond well to the soda atmosphere. We will work with a variety of slips, flashing slips and glazes during the decorating process. Demonstrations will focus on wheel-based work but the workshop is open to hand builders/sculptures who can work independently. The session will culminate in a firing in a soda-only kiln (no salt) either at Castle Hill or at the studio of instructor Paul Wisotzky. The last session will be the soda firing and workshop participants are encouraged to participate that day and are also invited to participate in the loading and unloading that will occur outside of a scheduled session.
This workshop is intended for those with intermediate to advanced skills.

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 nationally.  He is a founder and co-producer of SodaPosium, a national educational gathering and celebration of soda firing.  Residencies include:  Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Penland School of Craft, and Red Lodge Clay Center.  HIs pottery is in good use in homes around the world.