Current Shows and Exibitions
Influences & Origins:
an Instructor Showcase
January 10 - 30
Gallery 212
open daily
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Sonoma Community Center
276 E Napa St,
Sonoma, CA
Reception:
Friday, January 10
5:00 - 7:00 pm
It is an honor to be a part of this event. My two teapots were among the 573 entries, 200 pieces from18 countries were accepted. I have both teapots accepted and one, "Interrupted Comfort" wan Bronze Award. Yixing, with nearly 7,000 years of ceramic history, is an important birthplace of Chinese ceramic culture and their teapots are legends. The awards were announced on October 18, 2019, during the “10th China Yixing International Ceramic Culture and Art Festival”.
The 1st World Ceramic Teapot Art Competition, Yixing, China
Bronze Award Winner
I'm so excited to announce my acceptance to the IAC - International Academy of Ceramics. Today the Academy is the only association devoted to the medium of clay that functions on an international level. The IAC brings together ceramists, potters, artists, designers, authors, collectors, gallerists, conservators, restorers, curators as well as a panel of prestigious institutions. I'm looking forward to attend 49th IAC congress July 27th -31st, in Lapland.
International Academy of Ceramics, Geneva, Switzerland
2019 New Member
February 1 & 2, 2020
Saturday & Sunday 10:00AM-4:00PM Click for registration
A new 2-day workshop on making a personalized ceramic object that reflects your personality and can be hung on a wall or displayed on a shelf; has texture, colors and imagery.You will learn how to use the rigid-slab hand-building technique to create a unique memory box; investigate the possibility of carved surfaces; learn how to apply underglazes to create a colorful background; and make sepia-tone decals using black and white photographs.
Sonoma Community Center
Upcoming Workshop
Teaching Schedule
- handbuilding
- throwing
- surface decoration
ART 7ABC: Ceramics
6:00 PM - 9:05 PM
Monday/Wednesday
January 27 - May 22, 2020
If you are in Gilroy area, I teach three levels of Ceramics 7A, B, C. It's a dynamic class for people looking for an artistic outlet. The beginning studio course is designed to introduce the students to the hand-building techniques and artistic potentials of clay as a medium.
Ceramic 7B course is intended for students to advance their skills and learn how to throw basic forms on the potter's wheel.
Ceramic 7C requires a high level of skills and artistic thinking to develop a contemporary, personal statement in the ceramic medium.
- handbuilding
- surface decoration
- raku firing
Ceramics-Handbuilding
ARTS 065A
2:10 PM - 5:15 PM
Tuesday/Thursday
January 27 - May 22, 2020
This is a introduction to ceramic class that is designed to expose students to clay, basic hand-building techniques, and different forms of glaze application.
Students will learn how to make functional, decorative, and sculptural items using the following handbuilding techniques: pinching, coil, soft and rigid slabs.
During the semester, students will learn how to work with colored slips, stains, underglazes and various glazes.
The following surface decoration techniques will be introduced: sgraffito, slip-trailing, stenciling, carving.
- handbuilding
- beginning throwing
- surface decoration
ART 18 A - Ceramics
ART 18 D - Ceramics Handbuilding
12:30 - 3:15 pm
Monday/Wednesday
January 6 - March 23, 2020
This is a combination of two classes run concurrently. The Ceramics class is an intro course to ceramics as an art form that covers all basic hand-building techniques, and introduces to the potters' wheel. Also students learn how to use clay, glazes, colored slips, and oxides.
The Handbuilding section of the class is the second level of exploring clay. During the quarter students will improve their handbuilding skills and will make more elaborated projects that involved conceptual realization of the ideas and hight level of craftsmanship. Exposure to the surface decoration.