High Fire Low Fire with Bob Green
This course gives students the time and opportunity to improve throwing and hand-building skills while exploring several exciting and diverse firing techniques. Offered for two weeks, the class offers ample time for more in-depth class instruction, studio time, discussion, and critique as well as lots of firings. Firings will include stoneware soda/salt reduction, which produce flashes of warm colors on raw clay as well as rich glaze color. There will be several raku firings which will address both crackle and matte glazes. The class also will burnish bone-dry pots with terra sigillata slip for a bonfire pit firing.
Schedule & Fee
Week One: July 20-26
Fee: $920
One week courseFee: $1500
Full course/2 weeks
Week Two: July 27-August 2
Fee: $920 One week course
Fee: $1500 Full course/2 weeks
Supplies
Art New England provides supplies and/or models in the two week course. In addition, instructors may ask their students to bring additional supplies. Lists are sent with other information from Art New England approximately one month before your workshop begins. A campus store stocks some art supplies but students cannot rely on it to have all that is needed and should plan to bring or ship supplies from home.
About Bob Green
Bob Green is a ceramic artist and educator residing in western Massachusetts. He has an undergraduate degree in sculpture and an MFA in ceramics from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. He is the head of ceramics at Snowfarm, the New England Craft Program, and is a recipient of the Vermont Council of the Arts individual artist grant. He had two pieces included in the 2007 National Juried Ceramics Exhibition at the Lawrence Art Center in Lawrence, KS. Bob has taught numerous workshops on raku and pit firing and his work is featured in Steve Branfman’s book Raku: A Practical Approach, 2nd edition.
