Jamaican Large Scale Coil Building with Samuel Wallace

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Come dance around your vessels with Sam Wallace in this exploration of commercial clays. Participants will gain insight into Jamaican traditional folk-art hand-building techniques employed by Sam for building his large-scale planters and vessels. Combining molded slab, soft-slab building plus “pineapple” style wad-and-dob construction students will create a variety of forms for indoor and outdoor use.

Dates: arrive evening Friday August 14th, depart early evening August 16th.

Includes: 25 lbs. of clay and bisque firing; glaze firing fees are additional.

Lodging: To accommodate out-of-town participants, a 14-bed, 5-bath double property is available. Group housing will be provided for the cohort along with dinner both nights as part of deposit. Other meals will need to be self funded.