Susan Feagin Visiting Artist Workshop

Saturday & Sunday, March 8 & 9, 2025
10am – 5pm each day with 1-hour lunch

Floofing the clay surface

Susan Feagin uses screen printing and underglaze transfers to decorate slabs of clay, which she folds into useful forms with colorful layered surfaces that resemble scrap paper collages reminiscent of a handmade journal or sketchbook. Susan finishes her work with colored glazes she applies at the bisque stage before firing in a soda kiln.

In this 2-day workshop, Susan will demonstrate her methods for surface decoration, which she calls “Floofing” and hand building with clay slabs. Participants will have the chance to try these surface decoration techniques on a tile and will make underglaze transfers as well as an EZ Silkscreen to bring home and use later. This workshop is perfect for clay people who like to doodle, draw, print, cut and paste.

Artist Bio

Susan Feagin was born in Burbank, California and when she was 11 years old her family relocated across the country to the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia. She earned a BFA in ceramics from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1992. Susan started taking clay classes at the Penland School of Craft in 1994 and was a Core Fellow there from 1998-2000. In 2007 Susan finished an MFA in ceramics from the University of Florida. Susan has been the clay studio coordinator at Penland School since 2007 and maintains a small home clay studio in Spruce Pine, North Carolina.

Cost: Free for Harvard College Undergraduates, $250 for Adult Community and Harvard Graduate students.

Registration for this workshop will open on November 13, 2024 at 2:00pm.

Register (available at 2pm on 11/13)

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