Slow Clay Centre February Newsletter

Exciting Slow Clay Guest Artist Workshops on the horizon, stay tuned!

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Welcome to our 2016 program at Slow Clay Centre. Have you started the year with an inspiring, restorative activity? We had two groups of fabulous students for our January Weekend Intensives and then, in between, we started the year slowly by walking some mountains in New Zealand and being inspired by waterfalls, avalanches, mountain peaks and glaciers. Ignoring the sore feet, walking has some similarities with making with clay in the sense it can be a moving meditation and an intimate way to connect to country. We hope you have managed to find some inspiring and restorative time of your own this summer!

We have some exciting workshops lined up this year so stay tuned to these monthly newsletters to hear about them as they come up. We have had many enquiries about how to enrol in our weekly classes and it can be a bit competitive for which we sincerely apologise. The best way is to mark the date in your diary when you read it in our newsletters and then act quickly on the day we open, either online or by phone.

Term 2 runs from 11 April - 6 June (with one week off starting 18 April).
Our date for Term 2 enrolments will be Wednesday 16 March from 12pm onwards. We hope you can join us!

In the meantime we have a couple of courses that we only offer on an annual basis and can be booked right now so have a look below and hope to see you here soon!

Jane and the Slow Clay team

Well-Glazed: Glaze Development Course

We makers have many choices when it comes to the visual outcome of our ceramics. Not only do we choose what clay to use, what temperature to fire at and what kind of atmosphere to fire our kiln in, we also have incredible scope for creating our own glazes from scratch or modifying existing recipes. Itâ€™s a bit like cooking really!

If you would like to create your own "gourmet glazes" rather than the bottled "off-the-shelf" variety, this is the course for you! With a small amount of information and guidance it is possible to get started and to understand some basic methods for creating and testing new glazes!

No prior experience with glazes is needed but a strong interest in ceramics is beneficial! Come along to this rare 4-session course taught by the wonderful Pilar Rojas.
Pilar is a graduate of the Harrow School of Art Ceramics course in the UK and is a very experienced ceramic artist. She also teaches our Porcelain course at Slow Clay.

4 session weekly course: $350
Monday 15 Feb - 7 Mar
6.30-9pm

BOOK NOW!

Have you ever wondered how to transfer photos or drawings onto clay surfaces?

In this one-day workshop you will:

Use a variety of printing techniques onto clay including photographic screen printing, photolithography, lino and direct transfer methods.
Print directly onto wet, dry and bisque clay objects including curved surfaces
Print from photographs or rendered images, including personal drawings
Petra will also demonstrate various Monoprinting techniques using coloured slips, plaster and lino.

Suitable for all levels. Beginners can work on ceramics supplied by us whilst experienced people have the option to bring your own pieces.Whether you are an accomplished maker or a complete beginner, this workshop will cover all the information you need to know to start transferring your own images onto clay.

Petra Svoboda is an award-winning ceramic artist and experienced teacher. She incorporates printing on clay in much of her own artwork and lectures at the College of Fine Art, Sydney. See www.petrasvobodaceramics.com

One day workshop: Earlybird: $226 Normal: $245
(price includes $45 materials)
Sun 20 March
10am - 4pm

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If your kids missed out on our last Clay Club, now is the time to book into the next one! We offer one workshop each holidays which consists of two consecutive mornings of activities and fun with clay. If your children are busting to learn the wheel and/or sculpt up their own ideas, this is the class for them!

Book here!

DO NOT MISS!

Craft Victoria's Annual Fundraising Dinner:
Come along to support Craft at their annual fundraising dinner. An evening of fabulous food and beverages and live and silent auctions!
Date: Saturday 30 April 2016
Venue: Sofi's - Sofitel Melbourne On Collins
Time: 7pm
Tickets: $200 (includes $100 tax-deductible donation)
Bookings

The annual Pottery Expo is on again on the banks of the river at Warrandyte. This is an outdoor exhibition including over 60 stalls by individual potters/ceramic artists from around Australia and beyond. Slow Clay will have a stall there again providing a kid's activity and you can come along and chat to us about our programs while the kids get their hands into the mud!
More Info

And to satisfy your taste for a wide range of international ceramics, come to Clay Gugong 2016, Australia's only International Ceramics Festival! It could change your life! Held from 17 - 23 April, experience a week of demonstrations and lectures by some of the world's most respected ceramic artists in this idyllic country town in NSW. It's worth the effort to get to and buses can be booked from Sydney. Join the Slow Clay team and see you there! Tip: accommodation is already booked out in Gulgong but ask Mansfield Gallery to keep you informed of B&B options opening up soon!
More Info and Bookings

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