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Skill Level: One (Beginner)

Requirements: None, no experience required

In this two-day weekend intensive, Adams Puryear will share ideas and various techniques for creating handbuilt mugs. Throughout history vessels with handles have been used as objects to drink and eat out of. This format will be explored with demonstrations as well as historical and contemporary examples. Saturday is focused on making a mug and refining or adding surface treatments. This will include pinching and coiling processes, slab and pulled handles, and adding texture with tools and stamps. Sunday will survey various methods of underglaze and slip applications with an overview of design and composition strategies. Work will be clear glazed and fired by staff.

This is a great workshop for beginning handbuilders and for understanding the vast number of possibilities that underglaze provides using the mug as a 3D canvas. 

Day One Morning:

• Welcome and intro.

• Make first cylinder pinch pot.

• Make second coil style, discuss foot, handle relationships as well as proportions.

• Talk about handles, make handles using different techniques.

Day One Afternoon:

• Attach handles.

• Add texture and alter forms with stamps and paddles.

• Make and refine as needed.

• Underglaze intro.

Day Two Morning:

• Discuss underglazes.

• Discuss composition ideas and reference different historical design motifs.

• Paint.

• Refine as needed.

Included with class:

• 8lbs cone 6 clay

• a wide selection of underglazes for decorating

• glazing and firing of work

You will need to bring:

While an assortment of community tools will be available, it is suggested you bring your own if you have them.