SUMMER 2015MASTER ARTISTS WORKSHOPS

(re)create yourself here.

Ceramics • Jewelry and MetalsPaducah School of Art and Design

West Kentucky Community and Technical College

KENTUCKY COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM

Chris BaskinFong ChooJason HessVictoria LansfordTim LazureSharon MasseyLisa NaplesJen Townsend

In March 2000, the City of Paducah launched its awardwinning Artist Relocation Program as a means of revitalizing its historicLowerTown neighborhood. This highly successful program hasinfused over thirty million dollars into the local economy while earning Paducah international recognition as a historic culturaldestination and significantly enriching the cultural life of the region.

In August 2008, Paducah School of Art and Design (PSAD) wascreated through a collaborative effort between the city, West Kentucky Community & Technical College, and regional interests. PSAD hascontinued to grow and serve the region while anchoring the LowerTown Arts District through the creation of a serious school of art.

PSAD has since expanded its facilities and programs through theopening of two new buildings and the creation of its Master Artists Workshops program. The workshop program is housed in the 6,700-square-foot Ceramics and Small Metals Building, sited adjacent to its newly opened 7,000-square-foot sculpture building. The MasterArtists Workshops program, college classes, and other communityprograms will expand again following the January 2016 opening of PSAD’s new 2-D and Graphic Design Building. This landmark30,000-square-foot historic building will house PSAD’s programs in drawing, painting, photography, graphic design, and multimedia. All of PSAD’s programs are supported by state-of-the art studios and equipment.

With the launch of its Master Artists Workshops program last summer, PSAD positioned itself in a national context and set the stage for the years to come through an exciting selection of workshops in ceramics and metals that featured artists Susan Beecher, Jessica Calderwood, Harris Deller, Martha Grover, Doug Harling, Tova Lund, John Neely, and Craig Rhodes.

PSAD is proud to host its second workshop program in Summer 2015 with an equally impressive selection of experiences and presenters. This year’s program once again focuses on ceramics and small metals, featuring intensive workshops with nationally recognized artists and experienced workshop presenters Chris Baskin, Sharon Massey, Jen Townsend, Jason Hess, Fong Choo, Victoria Lansford, Tim Lazure and Lisa Naples.

PSAD is a division of West Kentucky Community & Technical College, which has been recognized as an Aspen Prize Top 10 CommunityCollege each of the three years the Prize has been awarded.

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Chris Baskin is a nationally recognized clay artist who makes ceramics for utilitarian,aesthetic, and contemplative purposes. Inspired by ceramic works and transformative processes since childhood, he creates objects embodyingthe mystery of ideas and values existing and manifesting in the material world. Chriscompleted a Master of Divinity degree inLouisville, Kentucky, and a Master of Fine Arts degree at Alfred University School of Art and Design in New York. He has served as aresort chaplain, mountain guide, and professor at Northern Arizona University and Universityof Louisville. He currently works and pursueshis studio practice at Mudshark Studios inPortland, Oregon.

This three-day workshop focuses on formingand glazing for soda firing. Demonstrationsand lectures will address accessing anddeveloping visual images connected to personal ideas and interests. The first daywill provide an overview of the soda firingglazing process and loading of the kiln.Students should bring bisqueware for glazing, as well as sketchbooks or otherimage sources. On the second day, we will fire the soda kiln while Chris demonstrateshis forming techniques. Day three will include additional demonstrations in the morning,unloading the kiln and discussion of the work in the afternoon.

Chris Baskin • May 28-30 • Tuition $290 Soda Firing for Color, Content, Surface, and Substance

Chris Baskin May 28-30

Soda Firing for Color, Content, Surface, and Substance

Sharon Massey received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Winthrop University in 1999 and her Master of Fine Arts degree from East Carolina University in 2006. She lives nearPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is an assistantprofessor of jewelry and metals at IndianaUniversity of Pennsylvania and serves on theboard of directors of the Society of North AmericanGoldsmiths. Her work has been includedin exhibitions in Germany, Italy, Spain, andJapan. Images of Sharon’s jewelry have beenpublished in seven books, including The Art of Enameling and Art Jewelry Today 2nd and 3rdEditions. Sharon’s work is included in thecollections of the Racine Art Museum in Racine, Wisconsin, and the Victoria

Sharon Massey May 28-30Jewelry Fabrication in Steel

In this three-day workshop, students will learn small-scale fabrication techniques to create jewelry using mild steel sheet and wire. With properties different fromtraditional non-ferrous metals used in jewelry,steel offers an affordable alternative forexperimentation in jewelry making. Forming,etching, soldering, pickling, and finishingtechniques will be demonstrated with anemphasis on finding personal direction and unique designs.

Sharon Massey • May 28-30 • Tuition $290 • materials and supplies additional

Jewelry Fabrication in Steel

Jason Hess is a professor of art and headof the ceramics program at Northern ArizonaUniversity. He has a Bachelor of Fine Artsdegree from Beloit College and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Utah State University.Jason has exhibited his work in over 100exhibitions at galleries, universities, and artcenters across the nation and internationallyduring the past 10 years. His artwork isfeatured in the collections of The RenwickGallery of The Smithsonian Institute and The Martin Museum of Art at Baylor University.Jason has participated in artist residencies at The Archie Bray Foundation, Red Lodge Clay Center, and The Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, China.His work is made from a variety of claymaterials, which are then fired (generallywithout an applied glaze) in a wood-burning kiln.

In this five-day hands-on workshop,students will explore glazing and apply avariety of slips to bisqueware, then load and fire a Manabigama wood-burning kiln.Placement within the kiln, stacking, and loadingtechniques will be discussed in detail. Each student will gain experience firing the kiln and participate in this exciting ceramicprocess. While the kiln cools, the group will

discuss making pots for different areas of the kiln and clay body formulation. There will be two days of demonstrations by the instructor and an evening lecture about his art andworking philosophy.

Jason Hess • June 2-6 • Tuition $490 Wood Firing and Making Work for Atmospheric Kilns

Jason Hess June 2-6Wood Firing and Making Work for Atmospheric Kilns

Jen Townsend attended Rochester Institute of Technology’s School for American Crafts, where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in jewelry and metalsmithing. She broadened her undergraduate experience by studying for a year in Florence, Italy, where she studied classical goldsmithing techniques.She later attended Southern Illinois University,where she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree. Jenhas taught classes or workshops at Penland School of Crafts, Arrowmont, Millersville University, EastCarolina University, Appalachian Center for Crafts, and Dartmouth College, to name a few. Her work can be seen in 500 Gemstone Jewels, American Artist, and Art Jewelry Today 2. She has exhibited extensively, including a 2007 exhibition at The Orkney Museum in Scotland.

Lost wax casting is an ancient process, but is still a staple of the jewelry industry today. In lost wax casting, wax models are transformed into metal. This class teaches you how tocreate a wax model and work with a casting house to turn your wax model into a finished metal product. This workshop is for peopleinterested in using cast elements in their work, but don’t have their own casting equipment. We will work on wax carving and discusseverything from finding a caster to finishing the metal casting. Casting houses are commonand offer terrific services for professionals and hobbyists alike. This class is fun andinformative for every skill level.

Jen Townsend • June 2-6 • Tuition $490Casting Without Equipment

Jen Townsend June 2-6

Casting Without Equipment

Fong Choo is an internationally recognizedartist and workshop presenter. His most recentworkshop was hosted by the GayaCeramic Center in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia. He was also a presenter in London at theFusion Clay Conference. This summer Fong has once again been invited to teach at GayaCeramics in Bali. He is currently working on a number of patron-commissioned pieces and is especially renowned for his skills making teapots.His work has received numerous awards at The Smithsonian Craft Show, The PhiladelphiaMuseum of Art and The American CraftExposition. He is an adjunct faculty memberat Bellarmine University in Louisville,Kentucky, and remains committed to a life as a practicing studio potter.

Fong Choo June 26-27

Demystifying Form: Clay Play and the Teapot

The teapot is arguably one of the mostchallenging and intriguing forms in clay. Fong will demonstrate the hand buildingand wheel thrown work required toexplore the teapot form, with an empha-sis on “play,” along with ways to use cane and reed in handle assemblages and how the many facets of the teapot can beaggregated into an aesthetically pleasing whole. There will also be demonstrations with simple homemade tools to use on the teapots, along with unique gadgets and ‘doo dads’ designed for use in your studio.

Fong Choo • June 26-27 • Tuition $190Demystifying Form: Clay Play and the Teapot

Learn the secret of Russian (“open back”) filigree through extensive demonstrations and hands-on exploration. Participants will create a pendant and a finger ring while learning the necessary steps and tricks to ensure success and fun through thisexquisite technique. Also included will be discussion and demonstration of more three-dimensional possibilities, such as the traditional bead form and Victoria’scontemporary sculptural jewelry andobjects. Those familiar with the technique through Victoria’s Russian Filigree DVD will have the opportunity to work on moreadvanced projects. Participants must know how to solder with a torch.

Victoria Lansford • July 17-18 • Tuition $190 • materials and supplies are additional

Russian Filigree

Victoria Lansford has generated aninternational revival of ancient and nearly lostmetalsmithing techniques through her artwork,publications, workshops, and passion forcreating. Her award winning artwork hasappeared in the Museum of ContemporaryCraft, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Wayne Arts Center, the Mulvane ArtMuseum, The von Liebig Art Center, Houston Center for Contemporary Crafts, and RochesterInstitute of Technology, among other ven-ues, and in numerous books and magazines,including the Lark 500 series, Metalsmith, and on Home & Garden Television. Shecreated the metals program and served as head of the Metalsmithing Department at Spruill Center for the Arts, Atlanta, and was anadjunct professor at the University of Tennessee.

Victoria Lansford July 17-18

Russian Filigree

Tim Lazure is an associate professor in theMetals Design Program at East Carolina University. Hereceived a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from RochesterInstitute of Technology’s School for American Crafts and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Universityof Massachusetts at Dartmouth. His work is in the collections of the Mint Museum of Craft and Design, and the Gallery of Art and Design in Raleigh, North Carolina. Images of his work have been published in 1000 Rings, 500 Brooches, The Art of Enameling, and The Craft of Silversmithing (Lark Books). Tim’sjewelry, silversmithing, and furniture work have regularly been featured in national andinternational exhibitions.

Adorning the finger has been a tradition for ages. Rings are loaded with historicalmeaning. They can symbolize love,embody authority or status, and portray accomplishments or affiliations. They can be understated or fancifully flamboyant. This class will explore jewelry design,fabrication, stone setting, and assembling techniques related to the ring concept. Aesthetic value of jewelry comes from the artist’s imagination and execution ratherthan from the size of the stone or the

value of the metal. Students will fashion rings of personal importance, expression, andadornment. The class will center around lecture and demonstration with plenty of time for individual attention to create jewelry that is unpredictable, honest, complex, bold, simple, and beautiful. This workshop is designed for beginner to intermediate metalsmiths.

Tim Lazure • August 6-8 • Tuition $290 • materials and supplies are additional Ring 360°

Tim Lazure August 6-8

Ring 360°

Lisa Naples creates pottery and narrativefigures from her barn/studio in Doylestown,Pennsylvania. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from Nova Scotia College of Art andDesign in 1988. In 2010 her work was featured in the publication Masters Earthenware: Major Works from Leading Artists, a survey of 37 ceramicartists from North America and Europe, and in2012 she was awarded the Jane and LeonardKorman Prize for Excellence in ContemporaryClay at the 36th Annual PhiladelphiaMuseum of Art Craft Show. Lisa has exhibitedher artwork at the James A. Michener Art Museum,Smithsonian Museum and Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Shows. She has lectured and presentedworkshops around the country and in Australia.

Lisa Naples August 7-8

Flat to Functional: Cultivating Personal Expression

This demonstration workshop will cover three things in depth: Lisa’s characteristic soft-slabconstruction, dry-brush slip application, and decoration. Working in red earthenwareclay, she will discuss a black iron oxideprocess she employs in the glazing phase, as well as how she measures densityto achieve consistent results with hersatin-clear glaze. Finding a way to expresssomething personal through the mediumof functional pottery will be discussed.Just how one finds their ‘voice’ through form and then accentuates that expression throughdecoration involves an embrace of three forces working together: play, process, and practice.It happens over a lifetime, but getting started is often the most daunting part. Lisa will guideparticipants in how to ‘start’ or ‘start over again’ to move your vision and work forward.

Lisa Naples • August 7-8 • Tuition $190Flat to Functional: Cultivating Personal Expression

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Paducah School of Art and Design master artists workshops Summer 2015

To ensure your participation in our exciting new master artists workshops program, please complete this form,detach, and return with either full payment or a deposit of $200 to Paducah School of Art and Design, 409 Broadway Street, Paducah, Kentucky 42001.

Paducah School of Art and Design reserves the right to cancel workshops due to insufficient enrollment two weeks in advance of the beginning of each workshop. Deposits and tuition fees will be refunded in the event ofcancellations. Deposits and tuition, less a $50 processing fee, will be returned for students cancelling enrollment in writing at least three weeks in advance of the workshop. Balances due on registration will automatically be charged to the credit card on file two weeks in advance of the workshop, unless other arrangements are made in advance.PSAD will do its best to accommodate special needs of its students as disclosed on this form. If no special needs are disclosed as part of this registration, PSAD may assume that you have no special needs for all purposes.For information on housing, area attractions, and amenities, please visit www.paducah.travel.

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