Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts

Skill Level: Beginner – Advanced

This workshop/demonstration will introduce students to an exciting way of building forms using mold making, slip casting, rearrangement of parts, and technical construction. The instructor will lead participants through various industrial techniques that are then utilized to create artistic responses and complex forms. The use of stains and colorants as additions to clays and slips will be covered through this 3-day long demonstration/workshop. This workshop will feature a collective approach to learning Johns’ vivid new ways of construing and building vessels and forms.

Kyle Johns was born and raised in Chicago. He received a BFA from Southern Illinois University and MFA from Ohio University. Johns has been an artist-in-residence at The International Ceramics Center in Kecskemet, Hungary, the Archie Bray Foundation in Montana, and at Kansas State University. He was a Studio Assistant at Arrowmont School for Arts and Crafts and has participated in their Utilitarian Clay symposium. His innovative work has been featured in numerous magazines, national exhibitions, and he is currently an Instructor in Harvard’s Ceramics Program in Cambridge.

Course Fee: $300 + $60 Lab Fee + $40 Non-Refundable Registration Fee