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Matt Kelleher and
Shoko Teruyama

Bisque Molds: An Invitation to Slow Down

September 21-25, 2010
10 am to 4 pm
Medium: Ceramics
Level: All Levels
5-Day Studio Workshop
Tuition: $475 Bascom members/ $500 non-members (includes basic materials)
www.mattkelleher.com; www.shokoteruyama.com

In this workshop, Matt Kelleher and Shoko Teruyama will demonstrate techniques developed over the last ten years on a series of forms including oval bowls, trenchers, flower plates, and sculptural birds. Participants will make a bisque mold out of stoneware, create a series of small slab vessels in earthenware, explore the technique of sgraffito decoration, and then carry their ideas through to glazed pieces using the demonstrated techniques. Pounding, and tossing slabs, building parts, slip application, shaving and carving will all lead students to discussion of surface embellishment and instruction in sgraffito decoration. Students will be guided in how to build image banks of resource materials for developing forms and surface imagery.

Kelleher and Teruyama work extensively with slabs humped over bisque molds, wrapped around vertical molds, and stacked on multiple piece bisque molds. Kelleher and Teruyama live and work in Marshall, NC, where they develop individual bodies of work in soda-fired stoneware and highly decorated earthenware.

Kelleher holds a B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute, 1995, an M.A. in Printmaking from the University of Northern Iowa,1997, and an M.F.A. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1999. After a residency at the Penland School of Crafts in 2008, Kelleher moved to Marshall, NC, to build a home and studio. He was a sabbatical replacement at the Hartford Art School in Hartford, CT., a visiting assistant professor at Ohio University, and a visiting artist and adjunct professor at Wichita State University. He was a resident at the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park in Shigaraki, Japan, in the summer of 2003 and a resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts from 1999-2001. Kelleher was invited by the Ireland Crafts Council to present in Kilkenney, Ireland, at "Made in America," an exhibition and conference of 20 American craftspeople with Irish ancestry. He was honored as "Emerging Talent" at the annual National Council on Education of Ceramic Arts conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Teruyama grew up in Mishima, Japan. She came to the United States in 1997 to study art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Teruyama received an M.F.A. in ceramics in the fall of from Wichita State University. She finished a three-year residency at the Penland School of Crafts in 2008 and is now a studio artist in Marshall, NC. Teruyama's hand-built work is made of earthenware with white slip and sgraffito decoration. She has developed personal drawings including a variety of vine patterns and animal motifs.

Public Reception: Thursday, September 23
4:15 pm, Mixer and Public Reception, Atrium
5 pm, Artist’s Slides and Discussion: "The Art of Collaboration"

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