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  Happiness is a Warm Extruder: A Workshop with Hayne Bayless
  Hayne Bayless, extruder, handbuilding, pottery, Our main focus in this hands-on workshop will be the extruder. It’s a marvelously expressive tool that can produce a very fresh and direct approach to clay, and can foster a very personal aesthetic.


 
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Happiness Is A Warm Extruder: A Workshop with Hayne Bayless

Saturday – Sunday, June 5-6, 10am – 5pm

Fee: Members $190; Non-members $200

 

Our main focus in this hands-on workshop will be the extruder. It’s a marvelously expressive tool that can produce a very fresh and direct approach to clay, and can foster a very personal aesthetic. The idea is to open up the possibilities of this simple but much-neglected tool. The big secret is: designing and making your own custom dies is far easier than you might think. This course is not just for handbuilders but also will interest throwers who want to expand their clay horizons beyond the wheel. Intermediate to advanced.

 

 
 
We’ll concentrate on:

• How the extruder and the slab roller can influence our approaches to functional stoneware.

• Unconventional forming methods and unusual approaches to surface decoration.

• How to create texture, pattern and color on slabs with the use of applied materials, stencils, inlaid slip and other approaches to surface decoration.

• How to make our own shaping and texturing hand tools and modify tools we already have to suit our new needs.

• How hollow dies for the extruder are constructed, and how to design and fabricate out of metal several dies for our own use. 

  

Hayne Bayless is a studio potter in Ivoryton, CT.  Other than lessons from a potter in Tokyo when he was 19 and later a handful of classes and workshops, he managed to avoid formal instruction in ceramics. He abandoned wheel-throwing early on, preferring the freedom of handbuilding afforded by slab work and extrusions.  Hayne’s interest started in high school, where he discovered an old potter’s wheel and kiln gathering dust in a corner of the art room. The art teacher pointed him to Bernard Leach's A Potter's Book and that became his guide. After a college career that spanned four schools and seven attempted majors over 12-years, Hayne emerged with a degree in journalism. He worked as a newspaper reporter and editor for 10 years.  His interest in clay reemerged, and making pots began to take up most of his time outside the newsroom. He quit the paper in 1992 and several days later put out work at a church-yard craft show, where he sold three pieces. Hayne has had the great fortune to be awarded the top prizes at two of the country's most important craft shows: the Smithsonian Craft Show in Washington, D.C. and the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show.


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