The focus of this workshop is to investigate the relationship between intention, control, and unpredictability. We will go through strategies for planning, designing, and breaking down simple surfaces both in analog and digital formats. This workshop can be a place to try your hand at 3D modeling, 2D illustration, or simply become more comfortable with a tape measure and ruler. We will work through techniques for surface pattern in both greenware and bisqueware, with the workshop ending in a soda firing. The objective of this journey is to find the intersection between the intentional and the unplanned, allowing yourself only at the end to loosen the practiced authority over the work you produce and permitting the firing to take on a portion of that ownership. The first half of this workshop will be about calculated steps, while the second half will be about embracing uncertainty and welcoming the potential that exists beyond control. Previous ceramic skills required: ability to create basic shapes either by wheel-throwing or handbuilding without assistance. This workshop will only cover what happens after your piece is in its leather hard stage.

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