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  Responding to Touch: Pots That Pour & Contain - a 5-Day Workshop with Leah Leitson
  Responding to Touch: Pots That Pour & Contain - a 5-Day Workshop with Leah Leitson, porcelain pottery wheel throwing, teapots, pitchers, creamers, and cruets using wheel thrown and combined parts
 
Non-Member Price $415.00
Member Price: $395.00


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Responding to Touch: Pots that Pour & Contain
A 5-Day Workshop with Leah Leitson

Monday – Friday, August 2 – 6, 10am - 5pm

Fee:  $395 members; $415 non-members

 

Working with porcelain, students will explore manipulating the form of freshly thrown pots.  This intensive 5-day hands-onw orkshop will focus on the expressive use of the pouring vessel. We will explore the possibilities of making teapots, pitchers, creamers, and cruets using wheel thrown and combined parts. Paying attention to form and detail, techniques and ideas will be directed toward the making of handles, spouts, and lids. Through discussion, demonstrations, and slide presentations Leah will offer new ideas in an adventurous, playful and creative atmosphere. Surface decoration will include working with slips and carving.

 

 
 
Leah Leitson is head of the Art Department and teaches ceramics full time at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC.  She received her M.F.A. in ceramics from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge in 1996, and her undergraduate B.F.A. in ceramics from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred, New York, in 1984. Leah completed residencies at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT. and Banff Center for the Arts in Alberta, CN.  She is a member of the Piedmont Craftsmen, Inc. and the Southern Highland Craft Guild.  Leah has led many workshops throughout the U.S., including Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, Arrowmont School of Crafts, Gatlinberg, TN, and has taught workshops in Italy and Israel.

 

Leah works exclusively in porcelain. Her work is predominantly inspired by the 18th and 19th century decorative arts, particularly utilitarian table wares and Sevres porcelain as well as being inspired by plant forms in nature. Her work has been featured in many exhibitions nationally and Internationally. Her work can be seen in arrange of publications of books and magazines. She is also represented in ceramic books and her work is found in museums and private collections.

 



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