Throwing With Intention
Rich Brown will lead students in learning how to build community through clay and throw with intention. Students will go on a journey to explore throwing consistent, functional ware that has life and energy. They will take a deep dive into creating tableware for daily use, and explore clay choice, form, function, ergonomics, and user experience. Students will examine glaze and slip applications.
SOUTHERN CROSSINGS POTTERY FESTIVAL
International ceramic artist and potter Rich Brown of Pottery32 will be a guest potter at the 2024 Southern Crossings Pottery Festival in Louisville Kentucky. The festival will be held at Ten20 Brewery, 1020 E Washington St, Louisville, KY on Friday March 1st and Saturday March 2nd.
*March 1st, 5-7pm First Pick Friday (ticketed) 7-9pm (free to the public) March 2nd, 11-5pm (free to the public)*
THROWING WITH INTENTION
Throwing with Intention
This workshop will be a deep look into throwing functional pottery. With a focus on the mental preparation for throwing, we’ll aspire to be present and intentional as each piece is created. Students will learn about throwing repetitive forms efficiently, and we’ll consider how to use pottery for self-reflection and for learning to be intentional with life as well as with clay. We’ll make cylinders, bulbous forms, and bowls. Bisque fire only. Beginning level. Upper clay studio.
Studio artist; teaching: Pottery32 (GA), Clay by the Bay (San Francisco), Saville Studio (GA); Clay Challenge 2022 residency (WA); Exhibitions: Louisiana State University Glassel Gallery, De Sousa Slay Gallery (GA), Eutectic Gallery (Portland, OR), Clay to Table (online); representation: Clay Art Center (NY), Mark of the Potter (GA).
NCECA’s 57th Annual Conference, CURRENT
Current day Cincinnati is home to a vibrant creative community of artists, many working with clay. Collectively and individually, they are getting their hands dirty and shaping new worlds. The region’s first peoples of the Eastern Woodland Indian tribes venerated their ancestors, moving tons of earth over long distances to form massive mounds. In the early 19th century, scores of brickmakers and artisans churned out construction materials from the clay-rich flatlands bordering the mill creek in their very backyards. Still later, ceramic artists like Maria Longworth Storer established Rookwood Pottery when she found that the clays of the Ohio Valley rivaled those used in the world’s finest ceramics.
Current can be a flow of electrons, a force of water, or a moment in time. Current invites us to consider how working with clay leads us to engage in worlds of continuity and continual change. The river is an essential and enduring feature of Cincinnati’s history and evolution. Current predates the history of human creation and transports artifacts, stories, and ideas through time to future generations. Ceramic artworks embody currents that carry diverse traditions of invention and renewal.
SOUTHERN CROSSINGS POTTERY FESTIVAL
Join me and many other AMAZING creatives at the Southern Crossings Pottery Festival! This festival is an annual ceramics event with a mission of showcasing the rich heritage and history of local pottery and helping to feed the hungry children in our community. This festival offers a profound encounter with the many ways a bowl can nourish the individual and the entire community, while also introducing exciting changes in the world of contemporary ceramics.