**Hands on Workshop
Instructor: Martha Grover
Saturday, May 16th & Sunday, May 17th
10am - 5pm
Main Classroom
Ages 17+

Description
In this hands-on workshop, Martha will share her special throwing and altering techniques that exploit porcelain’s elegant and sensual qualities. Working with a variety of bottomless wheel-thrown forms and slabs in both the soft and leather-hard stages, Martha will demonstrate various altering techniques and additions of slabs, handles, and spouts to create an assortment of functional forms. Martha will also discuss her sources of inspiration, philosophy of making, and studio practices.  Students will make their own elegant porcelain pots. Crack repair and mending techniques will be addressed, as well as the use of a spray gun for glaze application. 

$390 for a 2 day Workshop

**Limited registration available
**A full list of tools and materials will be sent to all participants
*Clay and Firing is not included

Artist Bio

Martha Grover is a functional potter, living in Bethel Maine, creating thrown and altered porcelain pieces. She attended Bennington College, where she received her undergraduate degree in Architecture. After a fifth year in ceramics at Syracuse University, Martha went on to receive her MFA in ceramics from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. 

After graduate school, she was awarded multiple residencies and fellowships including the Fogelberg Fellowship at the Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, Sage Scholarship and Taunt Fellowship at the Archie Bray Foundation, and a yearlong residency at Red Lodge Clay Center. Her work can be found at many galleries across the country. Her work has been published in Ceramics Monthly, Clay Times, Pottery Making Illustrated, 500 Pitchers, 500 Platters and Chargers, and 500 Vases.  It was the cover feature of Ceramic Monthly’s May 2010 issue.

Skill: Intermediate
Prerequisite: Several Clay classes.
This class is not suitable for beginners.

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