Sponge Stamping Workshop with Paul Wisotzky

Date: Saturday, June 24th Registration Closed
Time: 10 am - 1 pm
Location: Ceramics Program

Registration for this workshop will open on April 26 to anyone age 18+

In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to make sponge stamps as well as how to use them to decorate pottery at the leather and bisque stages. You will learn and practice how to use the stamps with glazes, slips, underglazes, and wax resist. Also provided will be laser-cut sponge stamps for you to work with. In addition to the new skills you'll learn, participants will have the opportunity to purchase laser-cut sponge stamps at the end of the workshop. Participants should bring 4 small/medium-sized (Meaning less than 10" in width and diameter. Two pots, both smaller than 4" in width and diameter, may be considered one pot), cone 6 or 10, and bisque-fired pots to work with during the workshop. These pots will be fired by Harvard Ceramics (for those not enrolled, at a cost of 4 cents per cubic inch) and available for pickup two weeks after the event date. Basic glazing and decorating skills are recommended.

Artist Biography

Paul Wisotzky is a studio potter and educator from Truro, Massachusetts. He makes functional pottery from porcelain and stoneware and fires his work in soda and reduction atmospheres at his studio Blueberry Lane Pottery. Paul teaches at the Harvard University Ceramics Program and Truro Center for the Arts at Castle

Hill. As an Open Studio Resident at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Paul developed a process of digitally designing and fabricating sponge stamps using graphic design software and a laser cutter. This process was featured in Ceramics Monthly Magazine and in an instructional video available now through the Ceramic Arts Network and CLAYflicks. Paul uses stamps to decorate his pottery as well as teach others how to use them in his workshops and classes. He is a founder and co-producer of SodaPosium- a national educational gathering and celebration of soda firing.

Materials:

• Leather hard and bisqued pots as described above
• Variety of brushes
• Sponge
• Apron

Workshop Fee: $100.00 for Adult Community and Harvard Graduate students; FREE for Harvard Undergraduates

***Those enrolled in Summer 2023 classes will receive a 25% discount code prior to registration!***

Registration opens on Wednesday, April 26th.

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