Ages 18+ • basic clay skills are required
We are so excited to host visiting artist Laura Williams for these cartooning with clay workshops!
ABOUT THE CLASS:
Cartooning In Clay: Small Sculpture
Explore cartooning as philosophy with visiting artist Laura Williams. This class is ideal for all experience levels and designed to inspire and play. Complete making and drawing exercises to form ideas, then bring your ideas to life by learning methods for sculpting small scale figures that tell a story. Demos will include sculpting figures, proportion, pinching, surface design, texture, underglaze, and underglaze mixing.
Laura (they/she) is a UK born, US based ceramic artist whose practice explores material, narrative, color and play. Laura studied ceramics at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and has worked as a ceramics educator for the last decade. They’ve taught at several art centers including; Lillstreet Art Center, Adamah Art Studios, Made Chicago, The Digs Chicago. Laura co-founded the Chicago Ceramics Crawl after teaching at many of Chicago’s community art centers. The tour aims to connect and celebrate the city’s vibrant clay community.
“I use techniques of pinching, wheel throwing, and slab building to form wares which are then decorated using slip, terra sig, slip, glaze, underglaze and or the underglaze pencil. When working in clay I aim to create bright and playful wares that are a conversation between the clay, color, and form. I’m interested in the way clay records our every choice; throw lines, finger prints, brush strokes, even sometimes our moods. I’m interested in the way colours and patterns play upon different clay bodies and aim to create a dynamic and playful surface that compliments the personality of the clay on which it’s painted. My patterns and illustrations respond to life. I draw what I know and experience.”
*workshop tickets are NON REFUNDABLE and NON TRANSFERABLE if the request to cancel is made within 72 hours of the event. We are a small business, and the cost of last-minute cancellations and loss of ticket sales from transfers isn’t something we can absorb. Thank you for your understanding <3 Please no pets
