Hand-Building: Form, Texture & Place
Led by Angela Smith Kirkman
In this immersive five-day workshop, students will be inspired by the forms, textures, and landscape of Ghost Ranch and discover the possibilities of building with clay by hand. Explore the essential hand-building methods of pinching, coiling, slab construction, and slump and hump molds all while learning how each technique can be used on its own or combined to create functional, sculptural, or vessel-based work.
Demonstrations will explore techniques of clay building like joining, altering, creating handles, feet and lids and texture, carving, slips, and surface design. Students will develop individual projects according to their interests, experience, and goals, rather than requiring everyone to make the same objects,
The week will begin with time in the Ghost Ranch landscape, observing its layers, lines, geology, plants, architecture, and surfaces as possible sources of inspiration. Individual works will be bisque-fired, glazed, and finished in a cone 6 oxidation firing.
This program is open to all experience levels and offers a playful and flexible way to explore clay.
Please click here for a brief overview & introduction from the Instructor, Supply List and Workshop Schedule.
Program Tuition: $750 (does not include Room & Board)
Demonstrations will explore techniques of clay building like joining, altering, creating handles, feet and lids and texture, carving, slips, and surface design. Students will develop individual projects according to their interests, experience, and goals, rather than requiring everyone to make the same objects,
The week will begin with time in the Ghost Ranch landscape, observing its layers, lines, geology, plants, architecture, and surfaces as possible sources of inspiration. Individual works will be bisque-fired, glazed, and finished in a cone 6 oxidation firing.
This program is open to all experience levels and offers a playful and flexible way to explore clay.
Please click here for a brief overview & introduction from the Instructor, Supply List and Workshop Schedule.
Program Tuition: $750 (does not include Room & Board)
Program Details
Start Date:
End Date:
Categories:
Ceramics
Ghost Ranch Program
Date & Time Details:
3:00 pm Check in
10:00 am Check out
10:00 am Check out
Location:
Ghost Ranch
Address:
280 1708 Dr, Abiquiu, NM 87510, USA
Contact:
Programs
programs@ghostranch.org
505-685-1000
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About the Leader
Angela Smith Kirkman
Angela Smith Kirkman is a ceramic artist and educator based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
She is the owner of Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery, Tumbleroot Pottery Pub, and Paseo Pottery, one of New Mexico’s largest community ceramics studios, offering classes and workshops in wheel throwing, hand-building, sculpture, and Raku firing. For more than thirty-five years, Angela has explored ceramic arts and firing techniques. She is passionate about harvesting wild clay from the New Mexico landscape and helping students discover that ceramics is more than making pots—it is a way of understanding earth, fire, place, and the beauty of the unexpected.
She is the owner of Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery, Tumbleroot Pottery Pub, and Paseo Pottery, one of New Mexico’s largest community ceramics studios, offering classes and workshops in wheel throwing, hand-building, sculpture, and Raku firing. For more than thirty-five years, Angela has explored ceramic arts and firing techniques. She is passionate about harvesting wild clay from the New Mexico landscape and helping students discover that ceramics is more than making pots—it is a way of understanding earth, fire, place, and the beauty of the unexpected.