Texture and Tsuchi Aji (Clay Flavor) with Meg Beaudoin

Texture and Tsuchi Aji (Clay Flavor) with Meg Beaudoin

Spring Workshop | Available

414 Plush Mill Road Wallingford, PA 19086 United States
Potters Guild
Advanced
3/15/2025-3/16/2025
9:00 AM-5:00 PM EST on Sun Sat
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$280.00
Member Discount Available

Texture and Tsuchi Aji (Clay Flavor) with Meg Beaudoin

Spring Workshop | Available

Hand building Techniques for Creating Texture and Revealing Clay Character

Meg will be teaching a variety of unique texturing techniques appropriate for multiple firing methods including gas, soda, and wood. The workshop focuses on texturing methods that begin with clay that has been enhanced with inclusions. It takes a materials-based approach and explores various hand building techniques that create texture and reveal the character of the material. The full workshop includes kurinuki techniques (hollowing out vessels made from sculpted solid blocks of clay), coiling techniques, slab techniques and scraping techniques. Forms to be made include the following: kurinuki yunomi (tea cups) and guinomi (sake cups), coiled jars and vases, slab built wall vases, scraped cups of various sorts. In the case of each technique demonstrated, other forms that can be made with the technique will be discussed. This workshop does not include firing.


This is a Potters Guild sponsored workshop and will be held at the Potters Guild which is on the premises of the Community Arts Center Times are 9am-5pm Saturday and 9am-4pm Sunday

  • About the Artist:

    Meg Beaudoin is a full-time ceramic artist who lives and works in the woods of the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York. Her work has been shown nationally in multiple invitational and juried shows, where it has won a variety of awards. She has wood-fired all of her work for over 15 years, typically in Anagama style kilns for 4 - 7 days, most often without applied glaze. Her work has been published in Ceramics Monthly and was featured as the cover image in the April 2020 issue. She regards the work as both sculptural and functional at the same time. This attitude towards her ceramics has drawn her to Japanese ceramics where such forms are regarded in the same way. She had the good fortune to make and fire work in Japan in 2019. More about the artist and her work can be found on her website https://www.megbeaudoinceramics.com/


  •  Supplies/Lab fee: $45 (Clay with inclusions will be pre-mixed and provided on the day of the workshop. Cash only.)
    • Required Supplies:
    • · Bats (round, square, plastic, wooden)
    • · Banding wheel
    • · Loop trim tools (large and small)
    • · Plastic (to cover rims while drying pieces and to cover work in process)
    • · One inch foam (to turn pieces over on without deforming their rims, and to aid in making drape molds)
    • · Wooden tools for shaping clay and carving feet (wooden rib or any wooden tool with a flat edge.
    • · Metal tools for shaping clay and carving feet (a metal tool with a flat side, for example, banding steel, Japanese trim tools a la Mudtools’ Do All or callas’ Trim gin)
    • · Flat metal kidney shaped rib
    • · Flat metal kidney shaped rib with teeth
    • · Pin tool
    • · Sponge
    • · Wooden knife
    • · Scoring tool
    • · Brush for water or slip
    • · Rolling pin · Metal Pastry scraper (also called a bench tool). Example: https://www.amazon.com/Bleteleh-Scraper-Stainless-Commercial-       Kitchen/dp/B08SBZXTCG)
    • · Painter's tape
    • · Newsprint
    • · Metal knife
    • · Bone dry or bisque solid cup shaped domed molds
    • · Cornstarch or dry EPK
    • Materials provided by instructor:
    • · 1/4” and 3/8’ sticks for measuring clay thickness when rolling
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