Slip Casting Workshop
Summer Workshop | Available
Have you ever wondered how to use plaster molds to make slip casted sculptures and pots, or how commercial pottery, sculptures and figurines are created? Join us in a brand-new style of ceramics at the Community Arts Center! No experience is necessary. Learn the whole process including mixing the slip, learning about recipes, how to cast, time needed for curing, how to clean the work/molds and how to create abstract sculptures by combining casted objects into cohesive works of art. I have a stockpile of 20+ commercial molds we can work with so there is no need to have any yourselves.
Schedule Notes: This is a two-day workshop with additional Glazing time.
DAY 1: WEDNESDAY, 7/15 (wheel room)
DAY 2: TUESDAY, 8/4 (handbuilding)
Glaze day FRIDAY 8/14 2:00pm to 5:00pm (Annex)
- Students do not need to purchase clay for this class. Students are to pay $38 for the casting slip (cash preferred) to their instructor on the first day.
Please note: Students who wish to fire work in the soda kiln and are currently registered in a class that is not soda kiln specific can do so for an additional $25 fee/semester. Only available to students who have previously taken a soda specific class or workshop at CAC
- $38 for the casting slip I will provide (cash preferred)
- 2-gallon bucket with lid
- Roll of duct tape
- basic ceramic tool kit (can be purchased from CAC)
- Optional but helpful: rubber rib
- Everything else will be provided by instructor.
Patrick Hoban
Pat Hoban was born in the suburbs of Philadelphia where he discovered his love of ceramics as a freshman in high school. From there, he went onto study ceramics and sculpture at Penn State University, where he received his BFA in Sculpture in 2015. In 2016, He received a full scholarship and assistantship to the University of Alabama. There, he exhibited work at various galleries in town and around Tuscaloosa and Birmingham, AL as well as had two solo exhibitions. He also has three permanent public art pieces displayed in various cities in Alabama. In spring of 2019 he graduated with his MFA in Ceramics. From there, he became the woodfire kiln tech at the Clay Studio of Missoula and a teaching artist at the Missoula Art Museum where he educated many community artists as well as elementary and middle school students in the area in various artistic mediums. While In Missoula, he exhibited work in various juried shows, community exhibitions and was a Resident Potter for the Missoula Tea Company. He is now a kiln tech and teacher for the Community Art Center.