Vlad Basarab Workshop
Clay Records Human Gesture - Paper-Clay and Alternative Techniques
June 11, 10am - 5pm
Book of Memory, porcelain, reduction fired, 1350 C, 2016, 13 x 7 x 4 inches, 2016
Photo: Vlad Basarab
Clay Records Human Gesture - Paper-Clay and Alternative Techniques Workshop
A workshop of alternative ways and experimental techniques to push the limits of clay through controlled defiance of gravity in order to create what may seem impossible to make forms with expressive textures. Come make your work out of easy to manipulate slabs and experiment the amazing properties of paper-clay mixtures. Paper-clay gives you the possibility to make thin or thick/solid and to attach bone dry work to each other; to fix cracks.
The workshop will incorporate alternative hand building and throwing techniques.
Manipulating paper clay slabs to render free flowing forms as ways to record your body's actions. The sculptures become landscapes of human gestures, memories of their making.
The artist will present unique ways of utilizing wild stoneware clays native to North Carolina in order to expand your work possibilities and methods.
Approximate Outline of Activities
-Introduction; Power Point presentation with images of artist's work and talk about the process, ideas, and influences
-Demonstration: building forms in the attempt to overcome gravity, different techniques of building, attaching bone dry pieces, repair of bone-dry cracked work
-Hands-on part: participants will make utilitarian and non-utilitarian forms
Please bring sketches or maquettes of what may seem impossible ideas to create into clay. Participants are also encouraged to bring personal tools, slump or hump molds of forms intended to make. We will provide some basic tools, some basic slump and hump molds, aprons. We will also provide paper-clay in different working states: slurry, slabs and hand building clay.
About Vlad Basarab
Born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1977, Basarab has had over 20 solo shows in the US, Europe and China. He started working with clay in 1986 under the guidance of traditional Romanian potters from Horezu, Victor Vicșoreanu and Dumitru Mischiu, considered living human treasures by UNESCO. In 2001, he received a BFA in Ceramics from the University of Alaska Anchorage. In 2013, he received an MFA in Electronic Media from West Virginia University. In 2013, he returned to Romania to conduct research under a Fulbright grant. Since 2014, he has been pursuing a PhD degree from the University of Art in Bucharest. He was also awarded the Rasmuson Foundation for the Arts Grant in Anchorage, Alaska (2008). In 2020, Basarab received the Art in Public Space Award from the Union of Artists of Romania and Ministry of Culture of Romania. Basarab's work is in collections in many countries. He is a member of the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC), NCECA and of the Union of Artists of Romania. Basarab also creates abstract process-driven free flowing forms as ways to record and encapsulate memories.
REGISTRATION
Class is $190
Class size is limited. Advance registration is required and payment is due at the time of registration
30 minute lunch break ( lunch is not included)
Select June 11, 2022 from the calendar below and select the session. If you need help, please contact Cat at 910-428-9001 or cat@starworksnc.org .