9-Day Workshop: Creating with Found Materials

9-Day Workshop: Creating with Found Materials

Summer Workshop | This course is completed

414 Plush Mill Road Wallingford, PA 19086 United States
Handbuilding Room
All levels
8/15/2025-8/23/2025
10:00 AM-4:00 PM EDT on Mon Tue Wed Th Fri Sat Sun
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$710.00
Member Discount Available

9-Day Workshop: Creating with Found Materials

Summer Workshop | This course is completed

Discover the beauty of working with what's close at hand! In this hands-on workshop, we'll explore our surroundings to find inspiration and materials to shape unique tea bowls, sake cups, and tokkuri. With just clay and creativity, we will craft vessels that reflect a sense of place and resourcefulness. Join us for nine days of firing, making, experimenting, and reimagining what's possible with what we have nearby!


  • Firing: August 15-17 (3 days) 
    Each artist is required to arrive at 9am on Friday, August 15th. Work needs to be completely prepared for loading, which means it is already glazed and wadded.  
    Times to glaze and wad at the Arts Center will be Wed, Aug 13th from 10 am to 6pm and Thu, Aug 14th from 12pm to 8pm.  
    The scheduling of work shifts for the wood-firing will be set up at 10am on Fri, Aug 15th after all of the work is set up for loading.      Each participant will need to be available to work 2 day shifts per share for 6 hours each or 1 night shift per share for 8 hours.  Each share of work will be approximately 4 cubic feet in volume.
    Workshop: August 18-22 (5 days)

    Kiln Unloading    : August 23

Inayoshi Osamu

Inayoshi Osamu is a Japanese ceramic artist deeply inspired by nature, tradition, and the philosophy of craftsmanship. His journey into pottery began at the age of 22 after the passing of his grandfather, when he felt a deep calling to create meaningful ceramic works. He trained in Seto and Mino, immersing himself in the rich history of Minoyaki and later discovering Atsumiyaki, an ancient pottery tradition from his hometown.

Guided by themes of fusion of the Middle Ages and modern times and harmony with nature, Inayoshi blends historical techniques with contemporary aesthetics, using sustainable materials and honoring the beauty of handcraft. Through his work, he seeks to preserve and share the depth of Japanese traditions in an age of rapid modernization.

Believing that pottery transcends borders, he values the connections forged through his craft and remains dedicated to refining his art, embracing the lifelong pursuit of his ideals. Inayoshi Osamu is traveling from Japan to lead this special workshop at the Community Arts Center, offering participants a rare opportunity to learn directly from his expertise and artistic philosophy.


https://inayoshiosamu.com

Tyson, Mark
Mark Tyson

“All of my tea bowls are hand formed and carved without the use of a potters wheel. I strive for organic forms that are unique ceramic sculptures that are comfortable in the hand and feel natural to hold and drink from. I try to give each piece a complex, naturalistic surface by adding materials such as small stones, ground up rocks, sand and ground up iron to the clay and glazes and by firing with wood whenever possible to add wood ash to the surface instead of or in addition to glaze. Many of my pieces are fired multiple times to build up layers of wood ash or to layer glazes over wood ash or other glazes. I follow the same process for all of my ceramic art.

Every tea bowl that I have ever seen, handled or used, subconsciously influences my work which then, in turn, will also influence my future work. A tea bowl is a seemingly simple form that is actually quite complex, so that the quest to make the perfect tea bowl is an endless one but also one that I will never grow tired of.  I also enjoy making other tea wares, jars, vases and sculptures. I have been a full time ceramic artist since 2011.

My ceramic art has been influenced by many other ceramic artists, both those who I have attended workshops with and those who's work I have collected over the years” — Mark Tyson

LEARN MORE: https://www.ceramicartyson.com/