2006 Summer Workshops at Hummingbird
in Southern Oregon's Applegate Valley

Victoria Christen - Aug.11-13

“Slipped Surfaces on Constructed Forms”

Workshop Description
9AM to 4PM Basic supplies and lunch are included.

Concept: In this workshop students will construct pots from thrown and handbuilt parts using terra cotta clay. Through the use of colored slips and terra sigillatas, students will explore the relationship between form and surface for functional pottery. Victoria will demonstrate a variety of application techniques for surface decoration from the use of flat areas of color, to loose needle carved drawing, to delicate brushwork. All work is done on leather hard clay creating a close relationship of form to surface. The class will use both commercial underglazes as well as learn to mix colored slips. Slide lectures will be included

Media: Red earthenware clay, colored clay slips, oxides and commercial under glazes in low-fire electric kilns

Activities: The daily events of the workshop will include class demonstrations, group discussion, and slides of contemporary and historical pots. Victoria will demo. or show slides the first thing in the morning and the first thing after lunch. The workshop participants will have time to work on their own work after this information was been covered.See daily schedule below.

$265* per workshop - $20 discount for registrations before May 1
Registration Form Five spaces left as of 7/6
One B&B room has been reserved

Victoria D. Christen lives in Portland, Oregon, where she is a full-time studio potter. She received her MFA from the University on Minnesota and was a resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation. She has given many workshops across the United States and currently teaches ceramics classes at the University of Portland. Victoria has also received many grants and awards, including an NEA Regional Visual Arts Fellowship Award, two Minnesota Arts Board Grants, a blue ribbon at the Minnesota State Fair, and a Great Lakes Colleges Association/ Associated Colleges of the Midwest travel grant to Japan.