Everything Everywhere All at Once: A Plethora of Techniques
Session 5 | August 10–22
Cube Skull Teapot – Yixing Series by Richard Notkin, circa 1988. Slip-cast stoneware, 6” x 5 1/2” x 3”.
Alloy by Trey Hill, 2023. Ceramic and underglaze, handbuilt, 64” x 18” x 12”. Photo by Chris Autio.
This ceramics workshop invites participants to explore and deepen their unique artistic voices, focusing on personal themes and expressive clarity. Through the collaborative teaching of two accomplished ceramic sculptors, participants will engage in a diverse array of techniques, from intricate carving to large-scale building. The workshop will cover innovative approaches to glazing and non-glazing, clay modifications, press-molding, and post-firing methods, as well as the integration of mixed media elements—creating a comprehensive environment for skill development and creative experimentation. This workshop is not intended for beginners. Basic skills in ceramics are required—mainly hand-building.
Richard Notkin’s teapots, ceramic sculptures, and tile murals are stages for social/political commentary. He has had fifty solo exhibitions, taught more than 350 workshops, and is in more than seventy-five museum collections internationally. Awards include three Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, and United States Artists Foundation. Notkin was featured in the premier Craft in America episode on PBS and elected a Fellow of the American Craft Council in 2008. He received the Honorary Membership Award from NCECA in 2014.
Trey Hill (he/him) is a professional sculptor and Professor at the University of Montana where he teaches sculpture and ceramics. He received a BFA from Bowling Green State University and an MFA from San Jose State University. His work has been shown in galleries and museums throughout the United States and internationally. Hill has extensive travel and creative experiences through his vast artist residencies including The Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT, the LH Project in Joseph, OR, Da Wang Cultural Highlands in DaWang, China; HAP Studios in Beijing, China, Fule International Ceramic Art Museum in Fuping, China, and the Rojal Art Laboratory in Roja, Latvia.