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Nick Joerling

Pots - Possibilities

July 22-24, 2010
10 am to 4 pm
Medium: Ceramics
Level: Non-beginner to Advanced (some throwing experience is recommended)
3-Day Studio Workshop
Tuition: $325 Bascom members/ $350 non-members (all materials included)

Beginning with round pots from the wheel, students will push, cut, coax and stretch forms. Focus will be on utilitarian pots with some liberties taken with that notion. Various ways of making handles, lids and spouts will be explored. Slides and demonstrations will form the backdrop for lively conversation about everything from making a living to making pots personal. Process is paramount, humor emphasized and taking chances encouraged. Pots will be bisqued but not glaze-fired. The Bascom is offering one glazing workshop per month, June-August.

Nick Joerling is a highly respected, full-time studio potter with a private studio in Penland, North Carolina. He received a B.A. in history from the University of Dayton, Ohio, and an M.F.A. in ceramics from Louisiana State University in 1986. He has taught in craft programs in the United States and abroad, been widely reviewed and exhibited, and is represented in public and private collections. He says, “I make pots as much from a drawing sensibility as a pottery one -- daydreaming with a pencil. Not drawing as rendering but simply doodling, then working hard to get that drawing to function. Profile line is therefore a strong attraction, a strong dictate, as are the smaller spaces within spaces. And of course that sense of animation. My pot reference is most often you and me -- our bodies. My cues come from dance, people seated on a park bench, the cleavage that forms on the inside of a bent elbow. But I want to stay in the pot's world -- too literal and the pots seem deflated. In my studio, what I hope for are pots that have qualities of sensuality, compassion, humor and risk.”

Public Reception: Thursday, July 22
4:15 pm, Mixer and Public Reception.
5 pm Artist Slide Lecture

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