Want to practice your pottery skills and/or work on your own projects? We have seven Pottery Open Studio/Lab weekends scheduled in 2018 for anyone who wants to spend time using our Pottery Studio equipment. You will have use of the wheels, tools and hand building equipment. Bruce Howdle will be on hand to give assistance if needed but you will be working on your own. Bruce will also be available to give instruction to students who have taken either the Pottery Bootcamp or one of the Hand Built Stoneware Project workshops and are returning just to glaze their pieces. Clay can be purchased from Bruce as needed.
 
Location: Mineral Point, Wisconsin
Instructor: Bruce Howdle
Cost: $100
Sponsor: Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts
Website, email, (608) 987-3292

This workshop embraces a cross-disciplinary approach to surface design on functional and sculptural ceramics. Using screen printing methods, you will explore both simple graphic designs and the possibilities for printing photographic imagery on wheel thrown or hand built work. Join Megan as she shares how to develop imagery, including approaches for research, design, and formatting specifically for ceramic work. Demonstrations will introduce you to preparing screens using masking processes and photo emulsion, making an ‘ink’ out of ceramic materials, and printing directly and indirectly on clay. This workshop is designed for students with some ceramics experience, either hand building or throwing. Fee includes clay and firing fees. Plus printmaking materials fee.
 
Location: Fish Creek, Wisconsin
Instructor: Megan Mitchell, www.MeganMitchellCeramics.com
Cost: Members: $485, Non-Members: $525
Sponsor: Peninsula School of Art
Website, email, (920) 868-3455

A maquette is a time-honored tradition of making a small-scale model or rough draft of an unfinished architectural work or sculpture. Maquettes are a great way for painters and sculptors alike to realize and adjust their vision of a composition. Prepared with an idea for your composition ahead of time, you will create rough models out of clay, plaster, and cardboard to work out issues of scale, selection, proportion, and harmony, as well as experiment with lighting and arrangement. The focus of this workshop will be on the construction of the maquette for students to bring home and use as a resource for painting or further sculpting.
 
Location: Fish Creek, Wisconsin
Instructor: Audry Cramblit, www.AudryC.com
Cost: Members: $225, Non-Members: $250, plus materials fee
Sponsor: Peninsula School of Art
Website, email, (920) 868-3455

With an emphasis on fundamental techniques of wheel thrown pottery, this workshop is designed for those new to the medium, self-taught potters looking to fill educational gaps, and current ceramicists who want to improve their fluency on the wheel. Through demonstrations and hands-on practice, you will learn how to wedge, center, cone, and pull a variety of shapes, including cylinders, vases, bowls, and plates. You can expect to walk away with a foundation in pottery techniques, as well as a general understanding of the principles of art making in ceramics. Instruction will be tailored to each individual student’s goals.
 
Location: Fish Creek, Wisconsin
Instructor: Joseph Pesina
Cost: Members: $485, Non-Members: $525, includes clay and firing fees
Sponsor: Peninsula School of Art
Website, email, (920) 868-3455

Join nationally known ceramic artist Bruce Howdle and learn to hand build stoneware clay projects (large platters, bas relief figures and faces, dimensional sculpture and more). Through the weekend you'll work alongside Bruce, getting the clay and design formed and trimmed. Your piece will dry over the next week, and Bruce will do the first (bisque) firing. On the second weekend, glaze your pieces and make more to be fired and glazed during an Open Studio/Lab weekend (see website). Bruce will do the final high temp firing of glazed pieces and make arrangements for you to pick up your completed stoneware. Includes 25 pounds of clay (more available for purchase), plus kiln firings and use of stains, glazes, and tools.
 
Location: Mineral Point, Wisconsin
Instructor: Bruce Howdle
Cost: $530
Sponsor: Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts
Website, email, (608) 987-3292

In this ceramics workshop, children will focus on a different hand building technique each day, including pinch, coil, and slab construction. Functional pieces, such as pots and rattles, and sculptures, such as animals and masks, will be explored throughout the week. Projects will help children develop fine motor skills and stimulate artistic expression.
 
Location: Fish Creek, Wisconsin
Instructor:
Cost: Members: $125, Non-Members: $140
Sponsor: Peninsula School of Art
Website, email, (920) 868-3455

Using the summer landscape for inspiration, young artists will create a series of functional and sculptural ceramic pieces for the outdoors. Lanterns, toad houses, small animal sculptures, and flower pots are just a few of the possible projects. Hand building techniques will be used to create each piece and brightly colored underglazes will decorate the surface.
 
Location: Fish Creek, Wisconsin
Instructor:
Cost: Members: $125, Non-Members: $140
Sponsor: Peninsula School of Art
Website, email, (920) 868-3455

In this workshop, young artists will learn the basics of making functional pottery. A combination of potter's wheel and hand building techniques will teach the fundamentals of three-dimensional construction, while underglaze painting and sgraffito techniques will explore surface decoration. A final clear glaze will ensure all pieces are food safe.
 
Location: Fish Creek, Wisconsin
Instructor:
Cost: Members: $125, Non-Members: $140
Sponsor: Peninsula School of Art
Website, email, (920) 868-3455

Pulling imagery, textures, and color from the Door County landscape, this workshop will use the potter's wheel and hand building techniques to make a range of functional and decorative ceramic pieces that reflect the school's surroundings. The surfaces of each piece will be decorated using underglazes and a variety of painting and carving techniques. All pieces will be finished with a clear glaze.
 
Location: Fish Creek, Wisconsin
Instructor:
Cost: Members: $125, Non-Members: $140
Sponsor: Peninsula School of Art
Website, email, (920) 868-3455

Experience making saggar fired ceramic work from start to finish in this hands-on workshop. Using sawdust in combination with other materials, such as copper salts, metal, and masking slips, the saggar firing process produces special markings on ceramic surfaces. The possibilities of working with materials in this unconventional way are endless and produce results that encourage further experimentation. This workshop will begin with an overview of the making and firing process, including which ceramic forms and sizes are best, ways to prepare surfaces to enhance special effects, materials to put in the saggar to encourage specific markings, and what to expect during the firings. Open to students of all abilities and approaches, pieces can be thrown on the wheel or hand built.
 
Location: Fish Creek, Wisconsin
Instructor: Patty Kochaver, www.PattyKochaver.com
Cost: Members: $260, Non-Members: $285, includes clay and firing fees
Sponsor: Peninsula School of Art
Website, email, (920) 868-3455

Friday mornings are set aside for drop-in art making for children of all ages. Participants will explore the world of ceramics and learn new techniques through hands-on activities. No pre-registration needed.
 
Location: Fish Creek, Wisconsin
Instructor:
Cost: $15
Sponsor: Peninsula School of Art
Website, email, (920) 868-3455

Enamel is glass fused to a metal base using a kiln. It’s deeply colorful, it’s shiny, and it’s fun to make jewelry from this contemporary medium with an ancient past. Leslie will teach you how to apply the glass, fire it in the kiln, and show you several simple techniques that make a big impact on your enamels. You will learn many techniques in this workshop, and go home with several small pieces or one larger piece. But this just scratches the surface of what can be done with enamel. Materials fee includes all materials and use of tools.
 
Location: Mineral Point, Wisconsin
Instructor: Leslie Perrino
Cost: $195
Sponsor: Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts
Website, email, (608) 987-3292

Want to practice your pottery skills and/or work on your own projects? We have seven Pottery Open Studio/Lab weekends scheduled in 2018 for anyone who wants to spend time using our Pottery Studio equipment. You will have use of the wheels, tools and hand building equipment. Bruce Howdle will be on hand to give assistance if needed but you will be working on your own. Bruce will also be available to give instruction to students who have taken either the Pottery Bootcamp or one of the Hand Built Stoneware Project workshops and are returning just to glaze their pieces. Clay can be purchased from Bruce as needed.
 
Location: Mineral Point, Wisconsin
Instructor: Bruce Howdle
Cost: $100
Sponsor: Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts
Website, email, (608) 987-3292

Join nationally known ceramic artist Bruce Howdle and learn to hand build stoneware clay projects (large platters, bas relief figures and faces, dimensional sculpture and more). Through the weekend you'll work alongside Bruce, getting the clay and design formed and trimmed. Your piece will dry over the next week, and Bruce will do the first (bisque) firing. On the second weekend, glaze your pieces and make more to be fired and glazed during an Open Studio/Lab weekend (see website). Bruce will do the final high temp firing of glazed pieces and make arrangements for you to pick up your completed stoneware. Includes 25 pounds of clay (more available for purchase), plus kiln firings and use of stains, glazes, and tools.
 
Location: Mineral Point, Wisconsin
Instructor: Bruce Howdle
Cost: $530
Sponsor: Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts
Website, email, (608) 987-3292

Art "Atalaya la Rosa del Taro" Artists Residence. It is a process of Neolithic tradition, totally by hand without winch and cooking with direct fire. Very rudimentary technique but of great ethnographic value. With your hands and the help of beach stones, pieces of wood and bone, you can make the tools that the aborigines of the islands used for everyday use. It is an elaborated ceramics, by the procedure called of the warping, consisting of the application and stretching of successive buns, churros or colombines of mud. There is also the technique of recessing and stretching a clay pellet. The preparation of the ceramic paste is made from the mixture of different muds with degreasers (sand or volcanic ash).
 
Location: Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain
Instructor: Silverio Lopez Marquez
Sponsor: La Rosa del Taro
Website, email, 0034 619835684

Make room for your creativity this winter. This is the time we open our light-filled, generously appointed studios to individuals and groups in search of a space for self-directed creativity. Some groups have even made it an annual tradition! You're free to utilize special equipment like potter's wheels, jewelry torches, an etching press, or substantial easels for large-scale work. If you have special equipment or studio needs, please let us know ahead of time. Shared studio space is available for rent Tuesday through Saturday. Enjoy the luxury of an expansive workspace without having to set up or take down your materials during the continuous length of your rental. Other amenities include unlimited complementary hot coffee in our Guenzel Gallery and full kitchen privileges.
 
Location: Fish Creek, Wisconsin
Instructor:
Cost: Members: $15 per day, $65 for 5 days, $120 for 10 days
Sponsor: Peninsula School of Art
Website, email, (920) 868-3455

A special weekly open studio for potters of all levels who are interested in self-guided creation of works in a communal setting. Handbuilding areas as well as pottery wheels are available for use. A facilitator is present, but no formal instruction is provided - just a fun and productive time in the studio making pottery with others. If you are new to ceramics or Peninsula School of Art’s ceramic studios, we encourage you to request an orientation session by calling PenArt - membership not required. Topics covered are: equipment basics, safety, maintenance and cleaning, firing options, and the vocabulary of the ceramic medium. Techniques include slab-rolling and handbuilding, throwing a simple bowl on the wheel, and decorating your bowl with underglazes.
 
Location: Fish Creek, Wisconsin
Instructor:
Sponsor: Peninsula School of Art
Website, email, (920) 868-3455