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Between Form and Function: Handbuilding Sculptural Forms with Virginia Scotchie
Saturday – Sunday, November 7 – 8, 10am – 5pm
Fee: $200 non- members; $190 members

Discover how ordinary objects can become extraordinary through dissection and reinterpretation of everyday material things. From this vocabulary, you will assemble and build clay sculptures using handbuilding processes, and if desired, wheel thrown forms. Investigate relationships among created clay objects, making groupings or sets to be used in finished sculptures. Explore alternative surface possibilities of textured surfaces, metallic glazes, layering glazes and cone 6 electric firing procedures. Handbuilding experience is preferred.

Virginia Scotchie is a ceramic artist and area head of ceramics at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina. She holds a B.F.A. in ceramics from UNC-Chapel Hill and in 1985 completed her Master of Fine Arts at Alfred University in New York. Virginia exhibits her work extensively throughout the United States and abroad, and has received numerous awards including the Sydney Meyer Fund International Ceramics Premiere Award from the Shepparton Museum in Victoria, Australia. She has lectured internationally on her work and been an Artist in Residence in Taiwan, Italy, Australia and the Netherlands.  Her clay forms reside in many public and private collections and reviews about her work appear in prestigious ceramic publications.