Surface Treatments for Pottery with Mitch Lyons, Chester Springs Studio

Surface Treatments for Pottery with Mitch Lyons

Level: All levels, Limit 10 students
Instructor: Mitch Lyons
Date: Saturday – Sunday, April 16 – 17, 2016
Time: 10am – 4pm each day
Location: Chester Springs Studio, Historic Yellow Springs
Two-Day Tuition: $210 Member, $230 Non-member (includes clay/supplies fee)

If you love pottery and interesting surface patterns, textures and designs–this workshop is for you!

Surface Treatments for Pottery Workshop with Mitch Lyons explores Mitch’s unique process of handbuilt pottery using a series of dowel rods in graduated sizes to hollow out the center. It is a great technique allowing you to create of one-of-a-kind surfaces by adding colored clay slips, textures and inlaid designs as the pottery is being formed. The resulting ceramic cylinders can be virtually any length and diameter, of uniform thickness and without seams. Mitch shows how the cylinders may be further altered and finished into a variety of shapes. Finished pottery may be dried for bisque firing (with no need of trimming), glazed and fired to cone 6. Both experienced and novice potters are welcome.

• Learn how to apply innovative colored-clay surface treatments
• Create seamless handbuilt pottery
• Come away from the workshop with original pottery (no trimming needed)
• Tuition includes white or brown stoneware clay

About Mitch Lyons Mitch Lyons earned his Masters of Fine Arts Degree in Ceramics from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art, and his Bachelors of Fine Arts Degree in Graphics from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. His pottery and clay monoprints can be found in numerous private and public collections throughout the United States, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Woodmere Museum, American University and the University of Delaware. He has taught at West Chester University, Moore College of Art, Rowan University, Alfred University and the University of Delaware. In the past 10 years he has led over 100 workshops. Lyons’ work has been exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Noyes Museum, Oceanville, New Jersey; Kalmar Lans Museum, Kalmar, Sweden; and the Vonderau Museum, Fulda, Germany. He is a recipient of a Pennsylvania Council of the arts Visual Arts Grant, and has taught at West Chester University, Moore College of Art, Rowan University, Alfred University and the University of Delaware. In the past 10 years he has led over 100 workshops.

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