This 3 week workshop is from 6-9 PM starting on Friday, June 12th. Participants will learn to construct ceramic chains from start to finish. These chains can be applied to planters, mugs, etc. Your instructor will cover forming consistent links, shaping techniques, and strategies for maintaining flexibility and movement in clay. The process itself is rhythmic and meditative, and no prior ceramics experience is necessary. By the end of the session, you’ll have created your own tactile chain and gained a new way of thinking about clay as an interactive, sensory material.
WEEK 1: Extruding, sizing, joining, and storage
WEEK 2: Basics of chain: design, repairing, and burnishing
WEEK 3: Slips, surface design, texture
About your instructor: Katherine has been making tactile chain sculptures for about three years now. Inspired by Ruth Borgenicht's work, they have created their own process for making woven chains out of ceramics for sensory and aesthetic joy. Functional pieces in the same category as other sensory objects, such as prayer beads, worry stones, and the modern fidget spinners. The process and the form both act functionally as a tactile experience that naturally invokes focus. Katherine has taught at Berkeley Potter’s Studio as well as other studios in the Bay Area.
This 3 week workshop is from 6-9 PM starting on Friday, June 12th. Participants will learn to construct ceramic chains from start to finish. These chains can be applied to planters, mugs, etc. Your instructor will cover forming consistent links, shaping techniques, and strategies for maintaining flexibility and movement in clay. The process itself is rhythmic and meditative, and no prior ceramics experience is necessary. By the end of the session, you’ll have created your own tactile chain and gained a new way of thinking about clay as an interactive, sensory material.
WEEK 1: Extruding, sizing, joining, and storage
WEEK 2: Basics of chain: design, repairing, and burnishing
WEEK 3: Slips, surface design, texture
About your instructor: Katherine has been making tactile chain sculptures for about three years now. Inspired by Ruth Borgenicht's work, they have created their own process for making woven chains out of ceramics for sensory and aesthetic joy. Functional pieces in the same category as other sensory objects, such as prayer beads, worry stones, and the modern fidget spinners. The process and the form both act functionally as a tactile experience that naturally invokes focus. Katherine has taught at Berkeley Potter’s Studio as well as other studios in the Bay Area.
